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The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules (recode.net)
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to dismantle landmark rules regulating the businesses that connect consumers to the internet, granting broadband companies power to potentially reshape Americans' online experiences. The agency scrapped so-called net neutrality regulations that prohibited broadband providers from blocking websites or charging for higher-quality service or certain content. The federal government will also no longer regulate high-speed internet delivery as if it were a utility, like phone services. From a report: Under the leadership of Chairman Ajit Pai -- and with only the backing of the agency's Republican members -- the repeal newly frees telecom companies from federal regulation, unravels a signature accomplishment of the Obama administration and shifts the responsibility of overseeing the web to another federal agency that some critics see as too weak to be effective. In practice, it means the U.S. government no longer will have rules on its books that require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally. The likes of AT&T and Verizon will be limited in some ways -- they can face penalties if they try to undermine their rivals, for example -- but they won't be subject to preemptive, bright-line restrictions on how they manage their networks. Meanwhile, the FCC's repeal will open the door for broadband providers to charge third parties, like tech giants, for faster delivery of their web content.
This is good news!
It doesn't matter NN rules or not, if you are a small business you can only afford so much bandwidth to provide content to people. Were you seriously thinking NN rules meant that any business could use any amount of bandwidth for free? Come on!!
Look at T-Mobile's binge-on program. ANY small business can take part, all they have to do is provide content in a specific lower resolution format T-Mobile can feed instead of a higher res version. That is juts one example of how small businesses are benefitting from things that many people claimed were against NN rules (even though no-one actually knew what the NN rules really did for or against them).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'm going to go ahead and do this. Because it's been bugging me for awhile.
What are you Cracked out nutjobs talking about?
home user internet has a soft and a hard cap. check your contract, they'll yell at you and cap you if you exceed it, and kick you off the service if you abuse it. providers frequently block ports, traffic shape torrents, etc.
a Business that needs unlimited services (for business voip, or a locally hosted database, for example) will have a commercial connection. these usually have no data cap, hard or soft. and few restrictions (and cost a lot more)
almost everything i've seen you guys complaining about regarding "net neutrality" has nothing to do with reality, or rational business practices but is instead the result of either a Massive FUD tactic, or just your echo chambers playing post office..
because of the religious beliefs of the ISP management, customers will no longer be able to access any website that offers medical information about birth control or abortions,
Every time a NN proponent comes up with this kind of ridiculous hypothetical situation, they make their argument look ridiculous. Given that there can be serious, real issues, why do you folks keep trying to go further and further into imaginary-land?
Why not go fully nutzo? As long as the ISP tells you ahead of time that they're coming to confiscate your firstborn male child, they're hunky-dory! And if you don't have a child, yet, as long as they tell you they're going to come rape your wife, they're hunky-dory! And if you don't have a male child, they'll take your girl child and create a male child for you! And then burn your house down! All HUNKY-DORY because they told you in advance.
This didn't happen in 2014. Why do you think it will suddenly become a problem today?
Netflix wanted free rackspace at all ISPs. ISPs said: 'What makes you special? Pay up, like everybody else that want's servers in the ISPs racks.'
Netflix parses it as 'We offered free servers to the ISPs, but they refused to let us install them (for free).'
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'