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FCC votes to overturn net neutrality rules

Post by Jason » Fri May 19, 2017 2:02 pm

The US Federal Communications Commission has voted to overturn rules that force ISPs to treat all data traffic as equal.

Commissioners at the agency voted two-to-one to end a "net neutrality" order enacted in 2015.
Ajit Pai, head of the FCC, said the rules demanding an open internet harmed jobs and discouraged investment.
Many Americans and technology firms filed objections to the FCC's proposal prior to the vote.
"This is the right way to go," said Mr Pai ahead of the vote on Thursday.
In a statement, the FCC said it expected its proposed changes to "substantially benefit consumers and the marketplace". It added that, before the rules were changed in 2015, they helped to preserve a "flourishing free and open internet for almost 20 years".

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The vote by the FCC commissioners is the first stage in the process of dismantling the net neutrality regulations.
The agency is now inviting public comment on whether it should indeed dismantle the rules. Americans have until mid-August to share their views with the FCC.
This call for comments is likely to attract a huge number of responses. Prior to the vote, more than 1 million statements supporting net neutrality were filed on the FCC site.
Many people responded to a call from comedian and commentator John Oliver to make their feelings known.
Separately, some protestors also used software bots to repeatedly file statements on the site.
Many fear that once the equal access rules go, ISPs will start blocking and throttling some data while letting other packets travel on "fast lanes" because firms have paid more to reach customers quicker.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri May 19, 2017 2:32 pm

Oh jesus. I hope this doesn't go through.
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Post by Alan B » Sun May 21, 2017 5:31 pm

It's a recipe for unlimited bribery by vested interests.
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Re: FCC votes to overturn net neutrality rules

Post by Brian Peacock » Sun May 21, 2017 7:59 pm

Next we know ISPs will be injecting advertising directly into your content stream.

Oh, hang on....
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Post by Hermit » Sun May 21, 2017 8:37 pm

Alan B wrote:It's a recipe for unlimited bribery by vested interests.
No. It transforms what would have been bribes into legitimate payments. Kind of opening up a new income stream for the internet services providers. This additional income will be so legitimate that it will also be taxable, at least notionally. Loopholes will soon be found to get around that nuisance, just like so many big corporations pay very little company tax today, if any at all. Some years ago one of them caused a stir by making a profit on an asset sale and actually claiming a tax credit for it. The government took the corporation to court - and lost.
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Re: FCC votes to overturn net neutrality rules

Post by Jason » Sun May 21, 2017 8:43 pm

Rubbish. There are no cases of bribing for priority bandwidth allocation simply because nothing is prioritized under the current system of net neutrality.

As far as opening up new revenue sources for ISPs, that's not in question. The question is whether the ramifications of those new sources are beneficial or deleterious to the many industries that operate on this platform and, more importantly I think, whether it is of benefit to the consumer.

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Post by pErvinalia » Sun May 21, 2017 9:38 pm

Śiva wrote:Rubbish. There are no cases of bribing for priority bandwidth allocation simply because nothing is prioritized under the current system of net neutrality.
In some senses there is prioritisation already where BitTorrent is throttled. Basically everything thing else is prioritised over BitTorrent.
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Post by rainbow » Mon May 22, 2017 9:06 am

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Re: FCC votes to overturn net neutrality rules

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue May 23, 2017 11:35 am

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