FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai::Democrats finally have 3-2 majority needed to regulate ISPs as common carriers.
Couldn’t they have done it earlier ? instead of waiting until the elections ?
Why did this not happen earlier? It seems there is some intentional delay for political purposes.
The 5th member was only just appointed earlier this month. So, they only just now have a majority. At least, that’s my understanding.
Confirmed by the Senate. Republicans have been holding up the confirmation for quite some time. Biden nominated Anna Gomez in March of this year (link) and she was only confirmed by the Senate in early September.
Thanks. The latest delays seem to be intentional from the republicans. But march 2023 seems like far too long since January 2021. Does anyone know what happened in 2021 and 2022? I would not be surprised if it’s because of republicans again but I don’t know.
Republicans actively working against the interests of the American people. Typical.
In all seriousness, what has having these laws repealed done? I’m asking because I don’t know.
The rules have never really been in affect, all the things that folks warned would happen without net neutrality hasn’t happened.
My Verizon plan explicitly limits YouTube video to 1080p. If I paid for a lower plan, it would limit me to 720p.
I have no option to go beyond 1080p, even if I’m on the fastest possible connection.
Of course, if I were to turn on a VPN, I can suddenly stream at any quality my connection can handle.
This is a real world example of what you claim hasn’t happened. And you can verify it yourself by looking at their available plans.
It has though. Traffic shaping is common, especially on mobile networks where video streams and VPN traffic will get deprioritized and throttled to force lower resolution playback for certain services. Many mobile ISPs are actually pretty open that they do this. In other cases this stuff is done quietly enough that you don’t really notice it is happening. Mobile operators get away with it because people are almost trained to expect mobile networks to be flaky.
Mobile I believe is exempt anyways. Traffic shaping is a necessity from a network admin perspective. If you allow mobile networks to not have QOS restrictions then there could be times where you wouldn’t be able to make a phone call because everyone around you is streaming 8k videos.
all the things that folks warned would happen without net neutrality hasn’t happened.
I don’t think that’s fair at all. Since we have never really had NN, then I would ask you to define what it is first. If you say that NN prevents ISPs from provisioning off websites in bundles then I would say, you’re not wrong but I massively dispute your definition of NN.
It is supposed to protect a free and open internet. I think I can safely state that. I think we can agree to that as a basis. And I can think of dozens of things that are going on right now that only serve to disarm and control users in order to strip-mine them of as much value as possible. If ISPs were utilities then you would have access to their financial reports, you could see their service reports, you would be able to know how they have and plan to allocate resources, and you would have at least transparency if not influence in decisions they choose to make that affect the cost of service. Imagine if they would have to apply for a tariff audit just to get approved to raise rates?
Are you truly arguing that this hypothetical alternate dimension is somehow imperceivably different than our own?
Net neutrality was never intended to turn ISPs into public utilities. Its purpose was to turn them into “common carriers,” which means they must treat all traffic equally.
That’s more or less because I’m healing the rules for such a controversial decision, that no one wants to take that publicity for being the first to violate them. However we know that the rule isn’t there eventually someone’s going to take that bite, they’re going to get Flack for it, and then everyone else is just going to do it and it will just be accepted as normal.
I’m a gamer this is basically what happened with horse armor, and now microtransactions are basically expected
First positive political thing I’ve heard in a while. Fuck that guy. Fucking hate him
I thought that got blocked - or at least, tied up in court. I know there are ongoing initiatives, but isn’t the only “big” one, the one that was repaying funds -stolen- from borrowers? Like, refunding overpayments?
The one-time loan forgiveness grant got shut down, yes. But Biden did manage to pass another way to handle student debt relief through the form of a revamped income repayment plan, with wayyyyy more forgiving terms than previous plans, to the point that you could essentially be forgiven of your student loans.
Most internet companies are screwy specifically because the government helped them become regional monopolies in the first place. This will make internet more expensive and worse. What is this even trying to solve? You can get fast internet in middle of nowehere Montana with Starlink at $120/month right now.
Yeah, I remember when my internet service got cheaper after Net Neutrality was repealed.