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FCC to get Republican majority and plans to “delete” as many rules as possible (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I'm guessing the "do not call" list goes out the window, not that it actually changes much anyhow.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Goodbye net neutrality.

Won’t it be so much fun when you have to pay for website “bundles” like they’re TV channels? The web is getting so centralized that maybe they’ll stop offering connections to anything other than Facebook and Shitter if you don’t pay for “unlimited” access.

Would be kinda convenient to make it harder to access fediverse platforms, or anywhere else that doesn’t moderate against any ideas to the left of Reagan.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We can still fight back on the state level. States and local levels will lead the way for progress here

California got a state law to enforce net neutrality in 2018. This is a good part of what limited the damage of Trump overturning it the first time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Internet_Consumer_Protection_and_Net_Neutrality_Act_of_2018

[–] [email protected] 4 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

I already can’t access Pornhub in my state. Some states will lead the way for progress, others will be regressive as hell.

(It’s funny, because the stuff you can see on e621 and Gelbooru can be way more disturbing than anything on Pornhub, but both are still accessible).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago

That's always been the issue with laws like this, just causes people to find worse things.

Banning alcohol lead to people dying from bootleg. Making drugs illegal lead to things like people huffing paint (maybe cost too).

[+] [email protected] -12 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Considering the amount of damage some of the things cause to people, I really do wonder what lengths people will go to, to continue indulging on their brain rot. Yes please, bundle all of the shitty social media platforms possible and put a $40 tag on it. Let's see how many people are willing to pay, to spread their toxicity and radicalized ideas. I would love to see the stats on that.

Also Net Neutrality is kind of dead already.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No. The biggest mainstream players in social media are all already aligned with the current administration. Meta et al. would be the ones to be available for free, and alternatives will be paywalled.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 hour ago

Uhh, no. You don't get it, really.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

The bad sites are likely the ones to not require a fee to access. It would be smaller sites and the Fediverse that would become more difficult and expensive to access.

Why pay to access Mastodon or Lemmy when you can use Twitter and Reddit for "free". It's a scheme that would benefit large corporations over smaller independent services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

Beyond that - with the porn bans:

Lemmy and mastodon servers aren’t going to collect your ID to make sure you can look at porn. Realistically, small sites are not going to have the moderation required to keep in compliance with those laws - if corpos like Aylo (which owns Pornhub, Brazzers, Red Tube - really a shit ton of porn sites, which could be a fun discussion about capitalism consolidation as well) think it’s too much effort and are just throwing up geoblocks - how many smaller sites will be forced to do the same?

Or even the potential to switch to a “whitelist” internet. Only being able to access websites which are “appropriately” moderated.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

How would you be so sure? So few know of the Fediverse and most don't see it as a comparison to things like Facebook, Reddit .etc

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

They don't need to know who the small fish are, they just need to know who isn't a big fish.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Large corporations would be able to afford to make deals with ISPs to give them preferential treatment so that access to their sites are faster than others. This is good for social media sites whose whole business model is monetizing their users. Things like the Fediverse would be hit especially hard because of its distributed nature.

ISPs can offer further tiers of plans making it more expensive to access websites that don't belong to major corporations bribing the ISPs. All the corporations win in this scheme while furthering the enshittification of the Internet.

Want to use Linux? Accessing those sites is difficult and expensive so why not use Windows instead

Want to use Mastodon? Sorry but that sites super slow so how about Twitter instead.

Want to use end to end encrypted email? Too bad. The connection their servers are super spotty. Better use Gmail or Yahoo for email like everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Regulations are written in blood. Battle for Blair Mountain Pt 2 here we come.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago

Welp.