Net Neutrality Is Over Monday, But Experts Say ISPs Will Wait To Screw Us (inverse.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inverse: Parts of the Federal Communication Commission's repeal of net neutrality is slated to take effect on April 23, causing worry among internet users who fear the worst from their internet service providers. However, many experts believe there won't be immediate changes come Monday, but that ISPs will wait until users aren't paying attention to make their move. "Don't expect any changes right out of the gate," Dary Merckens, CTO of Gunner Technology, tells Inverse. Merckens specializes in JavaScript development for government and business, and sees why ISPs would want to lay low for a while before enacting real changes. "It would be a PR nightmare for ISPs if they introduced sweeping changes immediately after the repeal of net neutrality," he says.

While parts of the FCC's new plan will go into effect on Monday, the majority of the order still doesn't have a date for when it will be official. Specific rules that modify data collection requirements still have to be approved by the Office of Management and Budget, and the earliest that can happen is on April 27. Tech experts and consumer policy advocates don't expect changes to happen right away, as ISPs will likely avoid any large-scale changes in order to convince policymakers that the net neutrality repeal was no big deal after all.

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Re:Net Neutering To-day, Democracy Gone To-morrow?

[stealth_finger]

This is the TrumpVerse in action. November is the last chance to act! Run these bastards back to hell!!

Because government control is soooo much better!

If you like your cable plan, you can keep your cable plan!

We'll all be equal, force-fed the same government-approved shit sandwich on our way to late-stage Socialism, just like Venezuela.

I got mine so fuuuuuuuuuck you.

Re:Back in the real world

[Killall -9 Bash]

You're complaining that a WISP is throttling you? YUO. AER. REE. TARRRRR. DID.

If you're trying to stream ultra HD video over the cell network, YOU ARE ONE OF THE ABUSIVE ASSHOLES FUCKING UP MY NORMAL DATA USAGE.

You're lucky you can even connect to the website, much less stream video, with how over-sold and congested cell service is. Maybe in a better world, WISPs wouldn't promise things they can't deliver, but in an EVEN BETTER world, you'd know better.

The issue isn't number of cell towers, or the pipes going to the towers. The issue is frequency. There isn't enough bandwidth. There isn't enough bandwidth because there are too many dumbshits like you trying to use their phone like a TV at the same time. I guess you can afford a $1,000 phone, but not a $200 TV.

Your screen is 5 fucking inches, what the fuck you you need 4k for?