Net Neutrality Won't Disappear on Monday — Here's Why

Yahoo ^ | 4/21/18 | Mary von Aue

[Libloather]

Parts of the Federal Communication Commission’s repeal of net neutrality is slated to take effect on April 23, causing worry among internet users who fear the worst from their internet service providers. However, many experts believe there won’t be immediate changes come Monday, but that ISPs will wait until users aren’t paying attention to make their move.

In December, the Republican-led FCC repealed net neutrality protections that were first set up under the Obama Administration. The repeal did away with rules that inhibited ISPs from slowing down access or prioritizing their own content, and quickly became a point of contention with consumer advocacy groups. According to a copy of the order published in the Federal Register, the rollback can kick off 60 days after publication, or April 23.

“Don’t expect any changes right out of the gate,” Dary Merckens, CTO of Gunner Technology, tells Inverse. Merckens specializes in JavaScript development for government and business, and sees why ISPs would want to lay low for a while before enacting real changes. “It would be a PR nightmare for ISPs if they introduced sweeping changes immediately after the repeal of net neutrality,” he says.

[Impy]

If any site I visit becomes slow I’ll get pissed off.

[UCANSEE2]

PAS, Thanks for asking why.

RURGAN, your statements as to my ‘beliefs’ are incorrect.

What I was saying was that IPs will increase the price of internet access. Net Neutrality, whether implemented or denied, is just the excuse.

[rurgan]

Net neutrality is a soros communist scam .

What government agency works or is accountable FDA, EPA, venezuela, government public schools? none of them work at all.

Just using logic and the chain of accountability , competition , ownership, for profit incentive etc. that are in competing small decentralize private businesses versus a government agency like the FDA and EPA that sometimes make up their own rules and get a budget and have a monopoly on what they are supposed to be doing for the “common goood” tells me government is a cancer that should be avoided.

If there is a need for a service like internet etc. then someone will create a for profit business. why do we need government agencies to tell them and us what to do or run these “needed” services.

I don't get it i guess the fake news media did a great job of brainwashing many of you here. .

I don't get it . I thought conservatives were not for government regulations? I'm not for them.

Look i’ve had experience with govenrment agencies and government related for profit monopolies. The govenrment schools here are in this US city are a total disaster. there is no education here there never was and i went to the public schools here . it's total chaos.

compare that to crack tech for profit outfits like Apple when Jobs was there or Intel now and you tell me what you'd rather run your heealtcare or internet Jobs or these incompetent boobs like those school administrators or comey, clapper and lois lerner , sessions , all these corrupt government . you want these goons operating on you or being at the cutting edge of technology? LOL these government goons don't know a hole in the ground from .. and they couldn't run a lemonade stand. Reagan was so right Government is not the solution to any problem government IS the problem.

compare the government school or lois lerner of the IRS to the cell phone industry government agencies versus the for profit private companies (it's called capitalism vs socialism). you seem like you are for socialism as you love and trust government regulation and oversight so much.