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The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th (www.eff.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services

The FCC will meet on October 19th to vote on proposing Title II reclassification that would support accompanying net neutrality protections

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hell yes. Glad to see some sense returning to government if a bit slowly at times

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did anything noteworthy happen as a result of removing net neutrality?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What didn't happen was internet being classified as a title II telecommunications service. So there's one consequence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was being genuine, there was a lot of doomsayers about what would come next and to my eye nothing changed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mobile carriers took advantage almost immediately by offering preferred services that wouldn't use your mobile data. Listening to Pandora? No problem! Listening to Napster or Tidal? That's data usage. And that's a pretty tame example.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yes, it's a lot of subtle things like this that are anti competitive in their nature. These things may not seem all doom and gloom but the point is that without regulation there is no stopping them from doing worse.

Xfinity could start throttling streaming services like Netflix in favor of their own streaming service Peacock and there would be nothing to stop them except that it might piss off their customers.