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FCC Says Net Neutrality Rules Will End On June 11 (reuters.com)
The Federal Communications Commission said in a notice Thursday that landmark 2015 U.S. open-internet rules will cease on June 11. From a report: The FCC in December repealed the Obama-era "net neutrality" rules, allowing internet providers to block or slow websites as long as they disclose the practice. The FCC said the new rules will take effect 30 days from Friday. An FCC spokeswoman confirmed the new rules will take effect on June 11. A group of states and others have sued to try to block the new rules from taking effect. The revised rules were a win for internet service providers like AT&T and Comcast but are opposed by internet firms like Facebook and Alphabet.
I hope you're right. I'm all for deregulation and hope the market can favor companies who don't throw the little guy under the bus. I hope that companies can keep companies accountable by exposing it.
Enjoy your "Oh, you want to look at YouTube instead of our preferred video partner site? Sure, that's just an extra $10.95 a month."
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
I hope you're ready to put your money where your mouth is.
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Fortunately, the telecom industry has a rich history of operating as a healthy open, transparent market. Your hope is well placed and you seem to be very familiar with how the industry has acted and operated in the past.
*rolls eyes*
"Old man yells at systemd"
Can't happen soon enough. This was a great call. Get government out of regulating business.
Just remember when you're paying more, for less Internet access, that this is what you wanted.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Business does a crap job of providing utilities without regulation. All that happens is that the provider ensures that it becomes a monopoly and then sits back on its fat lazy ass and gouges customers.
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
Yeah, there's no way ISP wanting to increase their profits are going to start charging businesses based upon their bandwidth.
Not gonna happen. The big ISPs are going to do what they've always done: increase their revenues by innovation, new infrastructure, and services that people want to buy. Improving their service and customer experience. Why, I'm so exited with my AT&T 1.5 Mbps down/.25Mbps up connection! And XFinity wont' sell me anything until I realize the value of their $200/month package.
It's all for my best interest!
We all know that the ISPs have the consumer's best interests at heart.
I'm gonna to petition the Pope to have all the CEOs at AT&T, Verizon, Comcast turned into Saints.
And that in a nutshell is the problem with deregulation.
You are left hoping that companies don't act like assholes, when then regulation was there to prevent it in the first place.
The market can't and won't solve this problem, because all of the power lies with the companies who will basically do whatever makes them the most money.
There is no such thing as a free market, and there certainly is no such thing as the market finding optimal solutions for anything other than greedy corporations who will change the rules, lie to you, and basically eliminate any of the things which the free market people claim will happen to balance things.
Hope in one hand and shit in the other, see which fills up first. I guarantee you, it won't be the one full of hope.
Considering the recent revelation that AT&T paid for access to Trump via his lawyer that is pretty funny.
If I have $600,000 to bribe Trump through his lawyer, can I get net neutrality reinstated?
Yeah, back when isps blocked netflix and bittorrent :/ Guess you forgot about that.
Love the way you stand boldly forth and display your valor by posting this as AC.
Check your premises.
Enjoy your "Oh, you want to look at YouTube instead of our preferred video partner site? Sure, that's just an extra $10.95 a month."
In all seriousness, you don't think that will end up right back in the Supreme Court due to class action lawsuit?
We'll make great pets
Enjoy your "Oh, you want to look at YouTube instead of our preferred video partner site? Sure, that's just an extra $10.95 a month."
In all seriousness, you don't think that will end up right back in the Supreme Court due to class action lawsuit?
Oh, I'd love to see that--especially if the suit were successful. But I don't see it being successful, alas, since this SCOTUS is essentially the same one that gave us that horrid Citizens United decision.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
ISPs have announced that their internet packages are going up in price on the 12th.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Because that is always how it works, right?
"Oh, I see now the error of my ways! I was so shortsighted and now the scales are lifted from my eyes!"
I don't think so.
Even if we do end up paying more, for less Internet access, there will be some new (or old) development that will be held up as a scapegoat as to why things didn't turn out in everyone's favor. But it won't be the fault of repealing the regulation.... no, that was the right step, it is just that they damn keep screwing things up!
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
About time that ISPs can charge for the right to access information you get through THEIR networks THIS IS AMERICA -- if you want free information build your own internet you fucking commie liberals
I'll remember this come November. Ending Net Neutrality is a call to arms AFAIC.