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FCC moves forward with its plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections (www.engadget.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Federal Communications Commission has voted to move forward with a plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections. The rules could be re-established as soon as next spring, but the FCC's effort could face legal challenges.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

"On the other hand, critics say that net neutrality rules are unnecessary. "Since the FCC’s 2017 decision to return the Internet to the same successful and bipartisan regulatory framework under which it thrived for decades, broadband speeds in the U.S. have increased, prices are down, competition has intensified, and record-breaking new broadband builds have brought millions of Americans across the digital divide," Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the FCC, said in a statement. "The Internet is not broken and the FCC does not need Title II to fix it. I would encourage the agency to reverse course and focus on the important issues that Congress has authorized the FCC to advance."

Lol if prices are down, why does my bill keep arbitrarily increasing? ~~And I'm pretty sure more companies are consolidating (Spectrum acquired Charter not long ago), so competition my ass.~~

Edit: turns out Charter rebranded as Spectrum, my bad

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

(Spectrum acquired Charter not long ago)

Spectrum is actually Charter's trade name; they acquired Bright House and Time Warner not long ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Ah that's right, oops. Edited my post, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You’re not wrong though. Mine just went up $15/month with CenturyLink’s rebrand as Quantum. That’s with me on their best service, month-to-month fiber.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Ajit pai can go fuck himself

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

Corporate traitor ass-clown, glad he's out

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

With a cactus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And no lube.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Twice.

In one day

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is no fiber to the curb, and DSL rolled out in the US starting in the late 1990s.

Since then we have cable internet added to the mix.

US broadband speeds are like the US minimum wage.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why does the article have to say "Obama-era"? Net neutrality is just net neutral and we don't need to add extra labels to create a headline. Annoying.

[–] ImFresh3x 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because we had net neutrality under Obama. And there’s lots of people who don’t know that. I’ve seen numerous posts back on Reddit and recently on lemmy saying corporate dems will never enact NN. When they did, and they are again. I’m glad the article mentions it. Because those history revisionists “both sides” groups are loud and prominent.

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

I remember it well. We just don't need to add to the already polarized political atmosphere by making it Obama-era thing. I was then and still am a huge proponent of net neutrality.

[–] ImFresh3x 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We do need to add to the polarity. 100%. Dems are not like republicans. And republicans are not like dems. It needs to be pointed out and made clear.

It’s the moderates who said “polarity” was “tearing us apart” during the civil right movement.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 23 points 10 months ago

Fuckin’ finally, jesus tapdancing christ

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

I love that it was proven a vast majority of the public comments in favor of removing net neutrality laws were fake. But instead of just reverting the law back as a result of this discovery we get to fucking hope it doesn’t happen again while we try to apply the same fucking rules.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Does someone know what's on the photo?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is the back side of a network patch panel punched down with wiring that has no strain relief.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Great alt text summary.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I believe it's a series of tubes

[+] [email protected] -58 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Cannot wait for this to amount to nothing over the next 12 months and seeing all the ~~bots~~ very real people hail it was a win for >!union busting!< Biden come next November

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So you're all in on the ever increasing cost of internet service, then? You are pleased that getting more than 25 mbits requires an extra $30 per month and gigabit rates are well past $150?

Damn. You be you, but I'd rather not be fleeced while they also strip me of my privacy rights.

Thankfully we actually got a competitor here recently and went from $90 for 25mbits up, 5 down to $68 for 1gig up/down.

Yes, that is how bad it is in America. 3 years ago that $90 was $60, after I knocked it down from $90 by dropping my data rate and ditching their minimal cable plan that mostly had shopping channels on it and HBO Max, only viewable on my phone, and I never managed to get it to work.

Their rates consistently go up by up to 10% per year with zero improvements.

[–] PsychedSy 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I pay like 120 for 2gbit unlimited bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'm jealous. I pay $155/month for two internet services: Old Faithful (10Mb/s DDL, reliable) and New Internet (up to 100Mb/s down (usually only 50Mb/s down due to trees), but flaky thanks to older wireless tech at the tower). I keep the old DSL wh3n the new wireless one flakes out. It's better in Winter (no leaves). They have a new tower they've been building and finishing up for well.after a year now, which supposedly has better tech on it. Just waiting to get swit he'd over to that one...then I belive I'll be actually getting up to 100Mb/s for $135/mo. I hate internet in America.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Net neutrality is a bandaid on a bullet wound at this point. Actually, that's not entirely accurate, it's more like a bandaid on a migraine.

The internet and internet access needs to be nationalized, this isn't 1995, there's no reason the internet should be controlled by a handful of corporations, and no amount of FCC regulation can fix the problems that causes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, the tired, old "perfect being the enemy of good", so let's just let it all go to shit since we can't get it perfect

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