04-26-2024, 02:36 PM
Follow up from: https://denyignorance.com/Thread-FCC-to-...neutrality
Well, it's a done deed... "Net Neutrality" has been reinstituted despite lobbying from all the broadband industry... and they will bring a law suit to make it not so.
From Ars Technica: FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote
Subtitled: Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality."
... The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization. Cable and telecom companies plan to fight the rules in court, but they lost a similar battle during the Obama era when judges upheld the FCC's ability to regulate ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act.
"Consumers have made clear to us they do not want their broadband provider cutting sweetheart deals, with fast lanes for some services and slow lanes for others," FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at today's meeting. "They do not want their providers engaging in blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization. And if they have problems, they expect the nation's expert authority on communications to be able to respond. Because we put national net neutrality rules back on the books, we fix that today."
ISPs insist the rules aren't necessary because they already follow net neutrality principles yet also claim the rules are so burdensome that they will be prevented from investing more in their networks. Lobby group USTelecom today said the "relentless regulation" comes at the cost of "failing to achieve Internet for all."...
Perhaps it's just me, but I must be convinced that allowing internet providers to 'sell' premium bandwidth is 'essential?' Aside from a lot of posturing and grand verbiage, the people fighting this don't ever explain how this is in any way 'equitable' to those who must rely on the internet. I suspect in the end this is strictly a profit thing... divorced from reality by money hoarding. But that's just me.
Well, it's a done deed... "Net Neutrality" has been reinstituted despite lobbying from all the broadband industry... and they will bring a law suit to make it not so.
From Ars Technica: FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote
Subtitled: Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality."
... The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization. Cable and telecom companies plan to fight the rules in court, but they lost a similar battle during the Obama era when judges upheld the FCC's ability to regulate ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act.
"Consumers have made clear to us they do not want their broadband provider cutting sweetheart deals, with fast lanes for some services and slow lanes for others," FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at today's meeting. "They do not want their providers engaging in blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization. And if they have problems, they expect the nation's expert authority on communications to be able to respond. Because we put national net neutrality rules back on the books, we fix that today."
ISPs insist the rules aren't necessary because they already follow net neutrality principles yet also claim the rules are so burdensome that they will be prevented from investing more in their networks. Lobby group USTelecom today said the "relentless regulation" comes at the cost of "failing to achieve Internet for all."...
Perhaps it's just me, but I must be convinced that allowing internet providers to 'sell' premium bandwidth is 'essential?' Aside from a lot of posturing and grand verbiage, the people fighting this don't ever explain how this is in any way 'equitable' to those who must rely on the internet. I suspect in the end this is strictly a profit thing... divorced from reality by money hoarding. But that's just me.
