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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FR doesn't appear to be blocked since you are posting on it. So you are asking the government for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Keep in mind that the government at the very least doesn't care if FR is blocked. More likely they want it blocked.
Heard the same arguments back when Obama tried to shove this through (2010) and shoved it through (2015) that Big Internet will block FR. Didn't happen, won't happen. My main argument against it back then was that it would turn the internet into Flixnet. The basic problem then was lack of bandwidth, so providers throttled Netflix in favor of their own streaming. But mostly they throttled Netflix because it was chewing up bandwidth.
Nowadays bandwidth isn't a big problem so you could argument providers would throttle so they can make money with their own services. Would they throttle to censor FR? No, censorship is much more sophisticated than that nowadays.
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The censors would like to shut down DU just as much as FR.
We heard this same nonsense in 2010 when Obama tried to shove this crap through and 2015 when he succeeded. Then it was repealed in 2017. Of course the same alarmists pushing their scare stories were a little more quiet because they would just look stupid immediastely. And they did look stupid because nothing happened.
Then use a VPN. Don't expect the government to solve a problem that you can easily solve yourself because they will "solve" it their way.
I solved it by asking them to unblock it, which they did. Some free wifi providers don’t allow vpn, either. I made no comment about Appleby’s policy nor about bet neutrality. I was only relaying a factual anecdote.
the term “Net Neutrality” is similar to “Inflation Reduction Act” quite the OPPOSITE. Don’t be fooled.
Twitter just banned me....
Not receiving the verification code to verify email.
Not in Inbox or Spam folder to my yahoo.com account.
Many postings on this search in google:
x not sending verification code
Basic forum log in to verify accounts and X/twitter cannot do this simple task plus they have stupid puzzles for you to solve before they give you an account then do not send a verification code.
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