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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The *only* people I know against it are about half of the posters here.
Today the Reich would have the “Free Train Rides for our Jewish Neighbors Act”.
Yes, People here at FR would go nuts if their ISP said, “We will charge you an extra fee if you want to visit FR and an additional charge if you want to post something to it.” YMMV. IMHO.
It was blocked as a hate site at my old employer!
If the FCC has deemed the internet to be a telecommunications service then all of this censorship by the government is now patently illegal. Or are they by this action giving the green light to censor our texts, emails and voice calls. Can you imagine your call dropping the moment an AI bot didn’t like it when you say something bad about Biden?
'Net Neutrality' was thought up by the same wankers the came up with the term 'Affordable Health Care.' We all know how that worked out.
Yup. As usual.
What employer blocked FR as a hate site?
Its odd. When the signals are up, a lot of them are very noisy on A.M. and F.M. Oh well......
I was blocked from FR from Appleby’s WIFI in Madison, WI once.
“There is no “equality” of performance. You get performance in proportion to what you spend for hardware, software and competent engineers to configure and operate it.”
Net neutrality has nothing to do with equality of performance between different hardware.
Let’s just say that Jake doesn’t read FR at work. Of course this was several years ago, I thankfully do not work there anymore.
Can a ‘free’ site ban legal speech? Maybe, but you can’t also claim to be free imo.
I didn’t realize that internet providers intentionally slow down the speeds when the spirit hits them. I’m actually glad that has been brought to a stop. What speed you pay for is what it should be 24/7.
Many companies do largely random blocking. I knew a place that blocked Reddit. My work blocked ESPN for a while, what I found hilarious about that is they didn’t block any other sports website, FoxSports, NBCSports, various sports websites, just ESPN. Somebody in IT gets a hair in an uncomfortable place and dumbs things happen.
I don’t think they do. Technically they could in this “no neutrality” window, but you’ll just annoy customers and they’ll find another ISP.
Bingo. This has NOTHING to do with ‘favored bandwidth’ between different companies. It has EVERYTHING to do with watering down your opponent by REQUIRING them to have an alternate message, which, of course, will only be applied to conservatives.
Remember just how much we hear about banning ‘misinformation’, like the government should have the authority. As they know they’ll lose that argument they’ve dug up this monstrosity as the next best thing.
People have been looking into the connection between Netflix (pro-net neutrality) and Obama (pro-net neutrality) and the millions Obama is getting from Netflix now. Whatever else it’s also about, money played a big role in all this.
And just like that another bureaucrat dictates the laws for everyone.
Obama and marxists / democrats also for this oppressive garbage
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