FCC votes to restore Net Neutrality

[Elim Garak]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday voted to restore “net neutrality” rules that prevent broadband internet providers such as Comcast and Verizon from favoring some sites and apps over others.

The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration. In 2017, under then-President Donald Trump, the FCC repealed those rules.

The measure passed Thursday on a 3-2 vote split along party lines, with Democratic commissioners in favor and Republicans opposed.

Net neutrality effectively requires providers of internet service to treat all traffic equally, eliminating any incentive they might face to favor business partners or to hobble competitors. The public interest group Public Knowledge describes net neutrality as “the principle that the company that connects you to the internet does not get to control what you do on the internet.”

The rules, for instance, ban practices that throttle or block certain sites or apps, or that reserve higher speeds for the services or customers willing to pay more for them.

 

[Neuromancer]

 

[At30wecashout]

#bothsides

Yes, the last FCC guy was a fukking clown the last regime put in place. Net neutrality is essential. Elections have consequences/benefits.

 

[Ghetto Denizen]

"Bothsides"

 

[Neo TheInsurrectionistONE]

The coli rankings in Google about to shoot up

 

[OaklandCertified]

We byke.

 

[the cac mamba]

im not gonna lie, were we supposed to notice something change when it wasnt neutral? because i didnt

 

[ORDER_66]

im not gonna lie, were we supposed to notice something change when it wasnt neutral? because i didnt

I dont feel a change either...

 

[Savvir]

im not gonna lie, were we supposed to notice something change when it wasnt neutral? because i didnt

Do you even know how net neutrality actually affects internet services in America?

 

[the cac mamba]

Do you even know how net neutrality actually affects internet services in America?

i figured that getting rid of neutrality was some republican bullshyt. but if getting rid of it was supposed to affect anything...what was it?

 

[Devilinurear]

@Pazzy

 

[BaggerofTea]

of course republicans have a problem with this

 

[President Sakora]

let's get this money brehs!