SourceWASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to dismantle landmark rules regulating the businesses that connect consumers to the internet, granting broadband companies power to potentially reshape Americans' online experiences.
The agency scrapped so-called net neutrality regulations that prohibited broadband providers from blocking websites or charging for higher-quality service or certain content. The federal government will also no longer regulate high-speed internet delivery as if it were a utility, like phone services.
The action reversed the agency's 2015 decision, during the Obama administration, to better protect Americans as they have migrated to the internet for most communications.
Check the stock market, bet there will be a jump for telecoms if there hasn't been one already.
A significant portion of the World's traffic back-hauls through providers here in the United States. Although, it is safe to say those will be completely unaffected by this as they will remain protected, except for what the NSA does, of course.
Doesn't this mostly effect the end-user connections? I thought this mostly meant the throttling would take place on the end-user side, not on the "backbone" of the net. This means that non-US users should remain relatively unaffected?Originally Posted by PostalTwinkie
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A significant portion of the World's traffic back-hauls through providers here in the United States. Although, it is safe to say those will be completely unaffected by this as they will remain protected, except for what the NSA does, of course.
I think I see you in here somehwere:Originally Posted by lombardsoup
The sky is falling! I knew this thread wouldn't be disappointing.
I'll leave one last comment before exiting the thread.
Net 'neutrality' had nothing to do with bandwidth speeds. It had everything to do with using the FCC to regulate political speech by using bureaucracy to control content.
You were an administration away from having to register your web site to the FCC who would 'approve' the content on it, and decide if you were a news outlet, or if your site disseminated fake news, or had to register as a PAC.
Today, this has been avoided.
WRONG. Here are all the reasons why you are wrong:
Because your personal experience summarizes the industry as a whole right? Right wingers never take anything seriously unless it happens to them.Originally Posted by LancerVI
Were you able to use your internet how you liked pre-rule implementation?
I assume your response will be a lie. My internet worked fine. Netflix, Amazon, HBOGo, etc. All worked fine.
I say you're wrong. I say larger and more bureaucratic government is NOT the answer.
I say this with the utmost sincerity; I despise statists and everything they stand for. Some day it'll come to a head and we'll get it figured out.
This was not said at all. They said they will work with the FTC to "police the internet", when the FTC does not have the authority to crack down on these ISPs whatsoever.
I remeber years ago them throttling my connection. wish i saved it that info but it was so long ago but it was messing up hard in TF2. I worked for them at that time shortly after @ comcrap and remeber them telling us that if people called in to say they were not slowing down certain connections. The one lead that the data on it that they were.
https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db1122/DOC-347927A1.pdf