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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 From a report: The FCC in December repealed the Obama-era "net neutrality" rules, allowing internet providers to block or slow websites as long as they disclose the practice.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.
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.
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.
If I have $600,000 to bribe Trump through his lawyer, can I get net neutrality reinstated?