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Ajit Pai Thanks Congress For Helping Him Kill Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com)
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai today thanked Congress for preventing the U.S. government from enforcing net neutrality rules. "The Pai-led Federal Communications Commission repealed Obama-era net neutrality rules, but the repeal could have been reversed by Congress if it acted before the end of its session," reports Ars Technica. "Democrats won a vote to reverse the repeal in the Senate but weren't able to get enough votes in the House of Representatives before time ran out." From the report: "I'm pleased that a strong bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives declined to reinstate heavy-handed Internet regulation," Pai said in a statement marking the deadline passage today. Pai claimed that broadband speed improvements and new fiber deployments in 2018 occurred because of his net neutrality repeal -- although speeds and fiber deployment also went in the right direction while net neutrality rules were in place. "Over the past year, the Internet has remained free and open," Pai said, adding that "the FCC's light-touch approach is working." Pai didn't mention a recent case in which CenturyLink temporarily blocked its customers' Internet access in order to show an ad or a recent research report accusing Sprint of throttling Skype (which Sprint denies).
A little extra in your pay packet this week!
fuck you pai, and the congress you rode in on
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR LIES AND PROPAGANDA NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
they can't try again when the Democrats take over the house?
The only thing I want to hear about that piece of crap is when he has been tossed in jail. I don't think it will happen, but Ajit Pai lied under oath in court and that is a criminal offense.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Fucking over US citizens every chance they get.
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It will be funny when 2020 comes and the only people that this will affect are in the non-coastal states that want this sort of rubbish.
Its really hard to read the top article due to the ad that takes 30% of the screen and blocks the ad.
Scroll you say... well the article scrolls under the ad
Take this you F-ing commies:
https://nypost.com/2018/07/11/...
Congress should make net neutrality law of the land. It's insane that the FCC (an unelected body) had the authority for something like that to begin with.
thank the GOP. There have been a few votes to save Net Neutrality and they were lost along party lines (a few GOPers did break ranks but it wasn't enough).
I know folks don't like partisanship, but there are partisan issues and NN is one of them. Had Trump lost the election we wouldn't be reading this story today. Had the Democrats taken the Senate & House by a wide enough majority to override vetos we would be reading about the upcoming vote to restore NN. These aren't debatable points, they're just facts. Cold, hard facts.
We've got another election in about 2 years. Show up at your primary. The Dems have a wing that refuses corporate PAC money. If Net Neutrality matters to you then you know what to do.
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he was really thanking congress for helping him secure an extremely high paying job for when he leaves government service.
This comment will be disappeared in five minutes, but thanks for the flamebait propaganda hit pieces, child Beau.
And Internet speeds are 40% faster. The horror, the horror!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
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If only we had net neutrality, slashdot would go back to the the policy of (almost) never deleting comments!
With unrelated tapdancing and red herrings, once again.
With unrelated tapdancing and red herrings, once again
It's every parents dream to give their child more than they had. To bring them up in a new land, where they can grow up and work hard to erode that country's freedoms.
You must be beaming with pride.
never drink kool-aid from a big vat
Creimertard. Delete thread.
With all this focus on Net Neutrality, there are other issues to discuss.
The big telecom companies are investing their profits in non-telecom industries. Verizon bought Yahoo, AOL, and some other internet hosting companies. Alternately, big telecoms are buying TV and movie studios. Shouldn't telecom stick to their industry, and offer lower prices instead?
If the power of a natural monopoly is so great, why hasn't municipal owned fiber optic networks seen more success? While 10 to 20 year ago, there was much talk of things like municipal wifi, but today, there are not many municipal wifi networks in the real world.
Future headline I'd love to see!
Back on topic, there are hardware concentrators available for next to nothing now with VPN service to NN-loving regions like Europe for under $10/mo. Add that to whatever you pay for your monthly comcast service, and you aren't going to notice any significant price hikes. Just a thought.
Its open season on him then...
With unrelated tapdancing and red herrings, once again..
I was told that everyone was going to die from the net neutrality repeal. Come to think of it, how can I be posting here if I'm dead?
Or wait, maybe I was confusing it with global warming or the tax cuts killing everyone...
there's still numerous lawsuits going on. I can't believe I have to even say this on /., but the downsides are:
a. Price increases. ISP will leverage their control of the pipes to charge us more for services like on demand video.
b. Censorship. Again, ISP no longer have to treat all packets equally. That means if they don't like the Alt-Right (or the left) they can ban them.
c. No innovation. Small players won't even be able to get started because they won't be able to afford the bandwidth fees.
d. No more ala cart streaming services. No More cord cutting. It's only NN that made these possible. Say goodbye to Netflix, Crunchyroll and Youtube. Even the big guys won't be able to compete when the ISPs can charge them but not you. Same thing happened with Microsoft. Nobody could compete with them because they could leverage their defacto monopoly.
If I may digress for a moment longer: This is a constant thing I hear on the right and I'm fucking sick of it. To wit:
"We don't need this regulation to stop a bad thing because the bad thing is not happening".
It's like saying Murder can be legal because nobody I know got murdered this week. It's nonsensical and in any other aspect of life folks would call it out as bullshit. But there's a multi million dollar propaganda machine trying to get folks to distrust and hate regulation in general so the rich and powerful can splay us open and gut us like fish. And we're bloody god damned letting it happen.
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This only affects the USA.
The rest of us can keep on going about our business.
Every time I see these 'net neutrality' things all I can think about is Idiocracy and the 'its got electrolytes' bit, and the NN version of the same is 'muh bandwidth wuz stranglified'.
Competition in a zero sum environment:
The total bandwidth available is not short time frame elastic, its completely static. So an example for sake of argument under the imposed 'bad' NN rules the 'muh bandwidth wuz stranglified' people keep pushing for:
Netflix in North America uses 50%(whatever the real number is doesn't matter) of available bandwidth and pays the same as everyone else under that rule, ISP/trunking/peering companies are unable to charge them more by the imposed rules.
Along comes SUPERNetflix with double goodness and 4X the bandwidth use which everyone starts using because double is mo gooderer, and now they use say 99% of the available bandwidth and the same ISP/trunking/peering companies (yes these numbers are exaggerated) are unable to charge more or negotiate a throttling plan due to the imposed rules.
The net result is all internet traffic is essentially throttled down to a max of 1% and the ISP is handcuffed, unable to charge for fair use, or throttle in the best interest of its customers.
Thats just 1 example I could think of easily, there are probably many more, 1 more would be something along the lines of a barrier to entry for a modest bandwidth need company having to pay the higher average prices rather than working out a deal short or long term. Basically they have to compete against the biggest companies paying for the same services.
What we get is articles and reports of throttling which cannot be substantiated without having monitoring at every hop along the way to rule out bandwidth being used for other purposes. And bad marketing ideas like the one from the summary, which has nothing to do with NN as its the ISP using their own bandwidth for their own purposes (see below).
If we really wanted to do something concrete to improve internet for everyone, disallow local/regional ISP monopolies in their various forms and see what happens.
Let's not forget who originally made Pai one of the FCC Commissioners. That's right---Barack Obama. We're stuck with him until 2021, but Either party could extend his tenure until 2023.
Wow, you lost at least 1 of your man cards there.
I'm impressed by your dedication to your leftist dictator fetish. I know you desperately look for the tyrany of the majority to install your dictator, but the rich white people who wrote the constitution specifically wrote it to protect the people from idiots like you. This is not a democracy, and deliberately so. Your desire for genocide against non-compliant (rural) cultures is obvious, but we won't let you do that.
not because they're somehow special, but because they've been given almost nothing. Between student loan debt and the 20% lower pay than boomers they own nothing to speak of.
The right wing stay in power by exploiting people's natural conservative natures (e.g. the genuine fear of change). This works because people have something to lose and that lack a sense of entitlement. The Millennials have nothing to lose and they're at least a bit entitled (the media likes to portray them as entitled brats, this is more right wing propaganda, since it's sense of entitlement that makes people demand a better life, which the rich don't want to pay for).
There's other factors. Evangelical Religion is melting away, with 24% of Americans declaring "none" as their religion. Religion's another easy to exploit system for the right wing to use. Racism is yet another and is fading away, with people in the South openly challenging the phony civil war monuments (phony because they were erected to remind blacks to stay in their place, not to honor the fallen).
If there's anything that worries me it's the right wing Wallstreet Democrats. These folks were created by Bill Clinton and are basically economic right wingers who regularly sell out the working class. They're planing on using the GOP's reliance on rural racists against them as demographics change and the number of Hispanics increase. I don't think it's a good strategy, those Hispanics are likely to be right wing as anything, but since the Wallstreet Dems can't do real policy to solve real problems they're grasping at straws.
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either way, most hi-tech CEO's have padded their business odds with or without the game Ajit is playing. i still believe he is a tool. they will all make money coming or going, that is the game plan. technology fee here for this going that way, and then more technology fees for going back the other way... its a government compliance game led by bureaucrats through and through, and we all know it, look at every city, county, state systems - forced legal compliance (ergo. look at all modes of insurance companies for goodness sake... insurance companies have so much power and so much money, probably more than banks do...) amen. i rest my case.
So called Net nutrality was a liberal idea that put big goverment in charge of our freedom. No thanks if you want that kind of useless burocracy move to china. Real americans are celebrating the work of chairman pai, and will honour and salute him for the rest of history.
The rule of community broadband can spread.
No longer will monopoly telcos get to use federal NN rules to keep out new innovative internet services.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Reminds me of the snotty rich kids at a school I used to attend.
Money can buy a lot.
When a government transitions the selection of valid measurements of the effectiveness of its policies from statistical to anecdotes over to imagined feel-good stories, it becomes a feel-good government for the people to feel good about themselves, but ceases being a government that is capable of acting on the benefit of the people.
Knock it off, APK. We need more civility on Slashdot, and you're actively working against that.
I wonder how anyone managed to survive back when one's network connection ran at a 300-1200 baud rate and was specifically a connection to service being accessed. Must have been a lot of suicides back then.
Pretty sure also now that smoke signals and mail ships is, in fact, nothing but a collection of myths and fanciful tales used to exacerbate the trauma when little children experience video game console crashes.
Hardware concentrator? Is that like a concentration camp? How dare you!
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"It's not what you know, it's who you know." and Mr Pai knows a lot of very unpleasant, sleazy people who can make his nasty little dreams come true and the dreams of his friends. A lot of rich people in power are about to become a lot richer and a bit more powerful.
I thank Ajit Pai for making Internet speeds 40% faster in the past year.
But thanks for the nonstop FUD, Beau. Whose payroll are you on again? Slashdot is owned by BizX which is a front for a bigger operation run by the Arabs. Would you care to explain your agenda?
In northern Europe we enjoy both net neutrality and very high internet speeds. USA is still lagging far behind the modern world :D
It is really comically, when you think about it: A large super power, but can't even get its act together at make proper interned speed :D
For the short term, I'm glad that most states have banned municipal broadband, because the average local govt is not technical savvy, and prone to screw such things up. Tech in public schools comes to mind. In the long term, I would like there to be multiple attempts in a few states, especially in cities, with a tech savvy population, to see if your average local govts have the sophistication to make muni broadbrand work in practice. It would be nice for each attempt to recruit experts from different places. One place from a foreign muni broadband network for example.
That Google gave up on muni broadband after one city is a bad sign. Google is a rich, technically sophisticated company.
She's been punished enough already. She got a slap on the wrist and everyone has moved on. It's not like her email was that big of a deal. Certainly not up to the level of all the shit Trump and his kids are going to be found guilty of.
That propaganda channel, Faux-"News" just hyped it all up, in order to sucker you into thinking it was a big deal. Then the Russians came along and played upon that, in order to get you to vote for Trump, because they knew he would be a weak president. And you're so stupid, you fucking fell for it!! And now you're too embarrassed to admit your mistake, so you have to keep pretending to support him.
Tell me - what is it like to not be able to think for yourself?
Oh, and by the way, Happy FUCKING Investigation Day you ignorant, cocksucking #MAGAtard!!
LOL!!1!wonONE!!
Trump's might wanna start stretching his asshole, in preparation for all the butt-sex he'll be receiving from all those MS-13 gang members. His day of reckoning is coming.
... is there a hinduchimp at the top levels of your civil service ??
Wtf ???
CC Chairman Ajit Pai today thanked Congress for preventing the U.S. government from enforcing net neutrality rules.
No he didn't. That's a ludicrous way of putting it.
Congress didn't "prevent the U.S. government from enforcing net neutrality rules".
Congress was under no obligation to pass a law implementing some past president's policy preferences.
that asshole needs to get fed to a woodchipper...
=P
Ajit's mouth for Congress members.
Fixed that headline for ya.
Very simple. He doesn't work for the people.
The reason we have cable monopolies is because local governments awarded monopoly service contracts.
That's part of the reason but only a part. A bigger reason is simply that it is economically inefficient for networks to be small - literally network effects. Last mile ISPs are a classic example of a natural monopoly.
You identified part of the problem which is the last mile monopoly/oligopoly. This could be ameliorated by prohibiting companies that deal in content from also owning the lines (or towers) to deliver that content. Then there is minimal conflict of interest and no real reason to charge Netflix more (or less) than anyone else. They should either be in the content delivery business or the content creation business but not both.
Ajit Pai /. has also become a tool, thanks guys
is a tool..
msmash is a tool
Creimer advertising dildos now? What are you a product tester?
That is a dildo, phag.
Here's the headline MOST americans support, if you ask them about big goverment and regulation:
"Hero thanks fellow patriots and heroes for their help."