Posted on 04/25/2024 9:38:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules.
The agency voted 3-2 along partisan lines to revive rules barring broadband providers from blocking or throttling internet traffic to some websites and speeding up access to others that pay extra fees.
The move brings broadband under the purview of the FCC by classifying it as telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act.
“Four years ago, the pandemic changed life as we know it,” FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said at Thursday’s commission meeting. “We were told to stay home, hunker down and live online. So much of work, school and healthcare migrated to the internet. If we wanted to engage with the world, we needed to do it all through a broadband connection.”
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...which seems to open the door for FCC
regulation of CONTENT on the interwebsnet.
Always what this was about.
About what I expect for "Neutrality" rules.
Wish they’d come here and see what’s up with our radio signals. Anyone else having issues. Seems daily here in Reno all stations AM/FM go offline. Sometimes just a few minutes, others seems like a half an hour. Solar flare issues? I still get the XM radio signal ad.
About time. If I contract for unlimited service, it should be just that. And it is none of the supplier’s business what my content is, whether competitor or otherwise. That is net neutrality. Now, if the supplier wants to offer me a discounted service to filter my service, blocking competitors, let them offer it, I might consider it.
39 years old nobody lawyer when Obama brought her into government. And zero background in anything to do with radio, internet or TV.
Besides, without net neutrality, Internet service providers might block FreeRepublic. So, yes, we do need net neutrality.
Only Net Neutrality isn’t what you are going to get.
“Besides, without net neutrality, Internet service providers might block FreeRepublic. So, yes, we do need net neutrality.”
Exactly.
Unfortunately a lot of people commenting on net neutrality don’t actually know what it is.
I know the term is abused, but the generic concept is what is needed. As long as the content is legal, it should be untouchable by the Internet service provider.
As I recall the arguments from the last time, net neutrality was a big freebie for the large players like Netflix, who hog the bandwidth of the ISPs.
Waiting for Karl Denninger to chime in.........
Affordable Care Act, PATRIOT Act, Inflation reduction Act, No Child Left Behind, etc.... All modern policies and laws do the exact opposite of what they are termed or titled.
And now we have Net Neutrality. Which precisely means we will have Government Managed Internet, with censorship of Content.
Well the “disaster” of having it go away never took place. Honestly nothing changed. So I expect nothing to change again.
Exactly.
You are falling for the propaganda name of the policy.
That is why they name bills and policies the way they do.
Did your health insurance get cheap with the Affordable Care Act? Did the PATRIOT act protect us from islamic terrorists or did it target American citizens on behalf of DC?
At a more pedestrian level, the FCC thinks it is OK to limit billable service pricing regardless of how much the end user consumes. There is a huge difference in data transfer quantity between an e-mail/browser end user, a perpetual video watcher and a party running large servers pulling website data scrapes to train an AI model. The needs for speed and volume vary for each case and should be priced by the burden imposed on the network services provider. FCC argues they should all pay the same. The only way that works out is much higher prices for everyone as the pricing must cover the costs for the most burdensome services OR providers exit the business because they can't remain profitable.
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