India's Telecom Regulator Backs Net Neutrality (reuters.com)

From a report on Reuters: India's telecom regulator has made recommendations to ensure an open internet in the country and prevent any discrimination in internet access in a long-awaited report (PDF), after debating the issue of net neutrality for more than a year. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said it was not in favor of any "discriminatory treatment" with data, including blocking, slowing or offering preferential speeds or treatment to any content. The Indian regulator's support of net neutrality stands in contrast to the recent stance taken by the chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Last week, Ajit Pai, a Republican appointed by President Donald Trump in January, unveiled plans to rescind so-called net neutrality rules championed by former President Barack Obama that treated internet service providers like public utilities.

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Re:Time for another round?

[RedK]

How many liars will come out of the woodwork this time to support the NN repeal by sharing 'alternate facts' and tell us history didn't happen the way it's documented?

Even though your post is just flamebait, how about you address the actual timeline, stop pretending the repeal is about "long standing rules", and stop pretending that they are as black and white as you put it. There's a lot wrong with the 2015 FCC regulations, and the FCC Commissioner of the time, appointed by Barack Obama, wrote a long dissent against them.

The current proposal is also not exactly a Net Neutrality repeal as people put it disingenuously, it's a return of power to the FTC, and contains language against Blocking and Throttling (part of the 3 "Bright Line rules" of No Blocking, No Throttling and No Paid Prioritization).

This discussion would be much less polarized if one side wasn't so much into spinning up Drama and making everything into a catastrophe for the Internet, and we stuck to actually discussing the policies being repealed and the replacement being suggested, which are much more nuanced than the "FCC should regulate ISPs under Title II" Camp is letting on.

The only lies being told here are Lies by Omission by the camp going bonkers over this.