Posted on 04/26/2024 4:32:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Remember when doing away with “net neutrality” was going to kill the internet? It went away and nothing happened.
But now it’s back.
The Biden admin and its media lackeys are hyping this as a pro-consumer move. The reality is that the actual impact on consumers has been and likely will be nonexistent unless Team Socialism figures out a way to leverage it for some nefarious purpose. And that certainly should not be ruled out.
Net neutrality is about rewarding the biggest lobbyists and that means feeding the biggest censors.
We were told that not having net neutrality would endanger our internet access. The reality is that even in their worst case scenarios, it might mean Netflix or game streaming (some of the biggest bandwidth hogs) getting prioritized for certain services. And that’s not happening.And even if it did, it would be mostly meaningless.
But lobbyists for some Big Tech companies have pushed for “net neutrality” in a power struggle with cable and other internet providers. I have no love for Verizon, Comcast or Spectrum, but the companies pushing for “net neutrality” like Google and Facebook are by far the biggest source of censorship.
Why doesn’t “net neutrality” apply to them? Good question.
Here’s how I broke down the corrupt hypocrisy of “net neutrality” a few years ago.
A few years ago the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) was demanding government regulations that would force internet providers to carry the content of members like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Now it’s suing Florida to fight regulations that would force some of those same members to carry the content of ordinary Americans.
Net Neutrality, or forcing cable and DSL companies to carry all content without picking and choosing, “helps preserve free speech, access to information — and democracy,” former CCIA boss Ed Black argued two years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
I can remember Rush Limbaugh railing against “Net Neutrality” when the left demanded he allow them to address his points of view on his program... ‘to be fair’.
NN had a lot of support of this forum the last time it was proposed. Hopefully this is a smarter crowd.
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Now that's back and there's really no justification, NN is simply a power grab. Some of the same chicken littles will line up for NN claiming that FR will be censored or throttled without NN. But it didn't happen, hasn't happened and won't happen.
Some will claim that they were blocked from FR because FR was on some blacklist. NN doesn't get rid of blacklists, on the contrary it sanctions them.
Like the “Affordable Healthcare Act”, it will do the exact opposite.
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