...which seems to open the door for FCC
regulation of CONTENT on the interwebsnet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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