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FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com)
FCC chairman Ajit Pai said today that net neutrality was "a mistake" and that the commission is now "on track" to return to a much lighter style of regulation. The Verge adds: "Our new approach injected tremendous uncertainty into the broadband market," Pai said during a speech at Mobile World Congress this afternoon. "And uncertainty is the enemy of growth." Pai has long been opposed to net neutrality and voted against the proposal when it came up in 2015. While he hasn't specifically stated that he plans to reverse the order now that he's chairman, today's speech suggests pretty clearly that he's aiming to. [...] Pai's argument is that internet providers were doing just fine under the old rules and that the new ones have hurt investment.
I think it would be better if they simply stated that:
1. If you advertise X speed, then the users gets X speed, every time, all the time.
2. Get rid of this, "Up To" bullshit. no one is interested in some speed you might get once in a while.
3. No traffic is EVER restricted for ANY reason.
4. If you can't support your sales pitch, then either build out to where you can or change your pitch.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Except that DIDN'T - You had one or two circus inquiries that did NOTHING - while ALL of the ISPs enacted data caps and then made their partnered content not count against those caps.
That's exactly the sort of thing Net Neutrality was supposed to prevent.