FCC Republicans Vow to Gut Net Neutrality Rules

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/fcc-republicans-vow-to-gut-net-neutrality-rules-as-soon-as-possible/

>"[W]e will seek to revisit [the disclosure] requirements, and the Title II Net Neutrality proceeding more broadly, as soon as possible," they wrote, referring to the order that imposed net neutrality rules and reclassified ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act. Pai and O'Rielly noted that they "dissented from the Commission's February 2015 Net Neutrality decision, including the Order's imposition of unnecessary and unjustified burdens on providers."

You only have yourself to blame for this, Donald memecucks. I guess you were too busy spamming memes to notice you were voting for our death sentence.

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ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/open-internet-net-neutrality
zdnet.com/article/mass-internet-surveillance-is-unlawful-say-judges-in-blow-to-snoopers-charter/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

what do you have to hide?

We're fucked anyway, better the US collapses faster and we start over faster.

Civil War 2 when?

TIME FOR YOUR DAILY LIBERAL CIRCLEJERK ABOUT NET NEUTRALITY

GET THE LOTION OUT BOYS NO ONE LIKES A DRY RUB

>Sup Forumslacks
>having foresight
>inb4 Sup Forums is always right
It's all memes. Let it go, user. Also, someone here is samefagging.

Yeah but at least he'll say RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM huehuehue

These rewards literally thought that voting for Trump would make people stop being SJWs, as if the president can control that. Now those types are just going to be more emboldened and seem relatively reasonable, and you'll lose freedoms on top of it.

Nice argument you don't have there.
Where didn't you get it, the not-argument store?

They sell pepes there?

We have this daisy chain every day. You fags act like this speculation is news or something

>phoneposting
You can do better than this user.

>TIME FOR YOUR DAILY LIBERAL CIRCLEJERK ABOUT NET NEUTRALITY

Name one reason why Net Neutrality is a bad idea.

What possible good thing could come from abolishing it? There are no upsides. At all. There's fucking nothing to justify. It's bad for EVERYONE that isn't Verizon, Comcast or Time Warner, literally fucking everybody else gets the shit end of this stick.

Does it make you more mad that I did it while sitting in front of my computer?

>You fags act like this speculation is news or something

I'm sorry, some of us don't trust our government. Do you?...


why? I've never been given a reason to. Do they pay you or something or is being naive the new millennial trait to have?

You miss the point. We have this same thread everyday, at the same time. Its a thinly disguised political thread. I could easily go to /pol or leftypol if I wanted to engage in political discussion. Half the thread yesterday was devoted to Obamacare.

It'd be fine if it were only memayms. Instead, Sup Forums became a literal shilling house for one of the worst candidates in recent history. With social security, medicaid, department of labor, education and energy all in serious jeoperdy, something like Net Neutrality is not surprisingly on the table. It's really sad to be on this sit

Its not anything that is new. Its the same shit being regurgitated since the election. Can anyone tell me something I do not know already?

At the very least (and I mean very least), if this happens, maybe companies will put no focus on no-name websites.

Personally, I don't use Netflix, Facebook, Reddit or any major site. I just run home servers.

So long as that's not interfered with, I think some of us will be fine. That said, this really blows. It's just a bit too late to do anything about it at this point. The game's over. Might as well prepare for it rather than bitch now.

I suppose it's just the internet reminding you of your past mistakes in November. This is the penance we all have to pay for hindsight, user.

I think the point is to spread the information, not be a bitch because you're tired of hearing it. People need to care about this, not just sulk miserably about it or be unaware of it at all.

>4chains
>no name
We'd be on the chopping block mang.

Oh no!

Quick someone tell Slashdot circa 2006 I'm sure they'll be livid.

So net neutrality was the only reason to vote Democrat?

One of very few. But it's a very important one.

Why? It would be the only thing I agree with Democrats on. Im not a single issue voter.

Net Neutrality causes job losses

If you think net neutrality is the only issue being undermined, you must be living too deep in the partisan cave. Real issues require critical thinking, not mindless tribalist circlejerk.

People on this site have gone from being techno-/crypto-libertarians to neo-fascist authoritarians all because of memes and a fear that wimmin are going to ruin their video games. Amazing.

>voting against self-interest

Why do Americans do this?

No, it's newfags.

Go on...

You're assuming that the democratic default state is to be on the other end of things. Remember all those times people had to petition and call senators to get bills temporarily put on hold?

You've taken the bait and you think either team is on your side. They only exist to gut the economies further for profit of their friends and bosses.

This is why term limits are needed.

>Sup Forums has gone from being techno-/crypto-libertarians to neo-fascist authoritarians
ftfy

Everyone else doesn't really care.

The redditors that come here for Sup Forums love to leak.

>yurocucks talking about '''self interest'''

>revisit [the disclosure] requirements

its literally nothing

You can blame a lot of the current reddit / Sup Forums crosstalk on how gamergate was bungled by team4chan.

those greedy corporate pigfuckers gotta make lots of shekels

>drain the swamp
>literally drains your coffers and throws you in the camps

I can't wait to see the look on a Sup Forumsack's face when they're staring down the barrel of a gun.

Net neutrality only seemed to benefit Netflix desu. Users were still data capped and throttled. I'm sure this wont stop OP from posting the same thread tomorrow and the day after.

how can you guys honestly say net neutrality exists when major carriers already force companies like Netflix into bandwidth deals and pull whatever shit they want with very little blowback and small fines? Wireless phones are all completely exempt from the rules and a majority of people use those networks and nothing has ever been blocked on Sup Forums or otherwise. You all sent in mass amounts of comments last time, and you will no doubt do the same this time. They will have about no effect as usual.

>all these butthurt leftists itt
lmao

There's a way around this...
Find all the like-minded technologically-inclined people in your area and pick a location to all move to. Setup a mesh network and share a connection to Level3, Hurricane Electric, or another backbone provider.

nice retort

techno-/crypto-libertarianism was never a viable or realistic ideology. Fascism is much more practical.

>being a single issue voter

> It's a worrying about muh free (((porn))) is more important than the future of my people thread

So here's the deal, we can either have Title II, or we can make all of the "non-compete" agreements, local monopoly laws, ect. null and void. However, even if we make them void, there still has to be someone with enough financial clout to build out the networks needed to compete with comcast, verizon, ect. But because of their monopoly status nobody else has the kinds of capital required to build out a network of comparable size, speed, scope. If we void the agreements we would also have to nationalize the telecom infrastructure. There are going to be problems coming either way, just realize that we are going to be hip deep in bullshit from both sides for the next decade.

who cares. privacy was killed years ago. also there is no good media to pirate anymore.

...

in 4 years when kanye gets elected we'll just enforce net neutrality again. Because that's how politics is done now: every administration repeals what the previous administration did.

meanwhile in for once glorious EU: ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/open-internet-net-neutrality

I dont understand how americans be retarded enough to want ISPs to meddle with their internet usage. What kind of retard do you have to be to think the word "neutrality" is ever bad?

fascism mostly pertains to refugees and shiet, most of Sup Forums (and Sup Forums ) is still libertarian

lots of unironic ancapers as well.

Why do Republicans just try and ruin every good idea?

>all internet traffic will be treated equally
Unless it is from a source that challenges their political narrative. People are getting arrested in Germany for talking bad about rapefugees.

Network Neutrality is 100% on topic for this board.

If you don't like it, just ignore the thread. Just walk away from the screen. Just close your eyes.

that has nothing to do with net neutrality, the ISP didn't hinder the internet traffic they needed to make those posts, and that's how it should be

whether saying stuff like that should get you in trouble is a whole other topic

it's anti-business

You're clueless my dude.

Not a chance.

ISP's aren't just going to just throttle the squeaky wheels. They're going to throttle EVERYTHING, including VPN traffic, except for the specific companies that they happen to have a stake in or that have paid them extra.

Actually unregulated business is anti-consumer and anti-business. Unregulated business just ends up being regulated by the first businesses that make it big and they act as gatekeepers for any new businesses that would challenge their place in the market.

I hope they do it. Just imagine the tears on reddit that day.

lol no. tyrannical state meddling by obama that created ISP monopolies is why we have no new competitors entering this market, if all regulation was removed we'd have 100s of new ISPs.

Comcast already throttles ssh connections.

can we please stop using the word regulation as a sort of black and white thing? There are different things to regulate, different levels of regulation, and different ways of doing it all.

I think the govenrment should regulate just about everything in terms of forbidding companies from ripping people off: no throttling, no discrimination, no deception, etc. Everything outside the realm of customer abuse should be part of the free market and competition

Meddling by state and local governments is what has caused shitty regional monopolies. They'll still be meddling even when the FCC decides to stop being competent. These regional monopolies predate Obama.

>no discrimination

cuck

>They'll still be meddling even when the FCC decides to stop being competent.

not once trump disbands useless tyrannical regulatory agencies like the FCC and EPA

>These regional monopolies predate Obama.

they were put in place by the pedophilic proto-obama clinton

Government regulations are useless and don't prevent anything you listed

>don't want a company telling me what I can and cant do from a moral/political point of view like criticizing refugess
>this makes me a cuck
gtfo troll

they're typically called laws, user. Many forms of abuse are illegal already, it's odd that companies can still get away with so much of it, so we need more of those protections

What death sentence? My internet has been getting slower, they've now added data caps and throttling nation wide, they secretly raise the price every year for me. How could it get worse? Thanks but no thanks libtard faggot. I'll trust the Don to increase competition in the ISP sector to fix this mess that you and Obongo have created.

>it's odd that companies can still get away with so much of it, so we need more of those protections
Is this satire?
>these laws don't seem to be working better make MORE

they don't work because either they dont cover shit or they are not enforced properly

this isn't fucking rocket science, make more if they are lacking or enforce them better if theyre not enforced well

do you muricans need every fucking obvious thing spoonfed to you?

How should they be enforced then? Let me guess, MOAR FINES. What would even take for you to accept that they are ineffective and that government regulations are not the answer to everything?

the US isn't a socialist nation where the state has to tell businesses how to operate. businesses operate how they please and the market decides who wins and who loses.

also, you need to be 18 to post here.

letting companies freely abuse customers however they want without fear of repercussions is a better idea to you then?

you gotta make SOME shit illegal, user. I don't run that shithole of a country you're in, you figure out what it takes to get those degenerate companies you have to deal with to obey the fucking law and general good ethics

>making morally criminal shit illegal = telling businesses how to operate
getting tired of all the false equivalences thrown around here, fucking arguing with toddlers

I love the assumption that being against ineffective regulation = letting companies freely abuse people. You're completely incapable of seeing outside the tiny little box you've put yourself in.

Not him, but sooner rather than later monetary policy might actually become politicized.

>you gotta make SOME shit illegal, user.

this is what statists actually believe.

Meanwhile in yurop

zdnet.com/article/mass-internet-surveillance-is-unlawful-say-judges-in-blow-to-snoopers-charter/

either there is regulation/laws, or there is not. You can't not have any because then anything is allowed. You need to have some. If they're not working as they are now, figure out how to do it better then.

PS: like I said before: yes, the free market should decide. Some shit they could pull should just never, ever be allowed, just like it isn't fucking legal to kill someone for no reason. The government should ensure unacceptable shit is made illegal and leave the rest to the market

>I don't think randomly killing people should be illegal because muh statist cucks, small gubmint is better

>meanwhile in canada
kek, americans cucking themselves once again

it doesn't need to be illegal because it's common sense, just give everyone a right to defend themselves

People won't just start slaughtering each other in droves without the state. Murders will still happen just like they do even with all the laws and money spent on law enforcement.

>it doesn't need to be illegal because it's common sense
just wow, wtf is this kind of thinking

>oh you killed someone on the street for no reason? shame, shouldve defended better, go home now

>People won't just start slaughtering each other in droves without the state
that is true. Now apply this to businesses:
>companies won't just start abusing customers who dont know better or dont have the powr to fight it in droves without the state
yeah, sure, companies are you friends and they're looking out for you of course

i'm out, this is pointless, you guys just want the world to be the wild west again

No the media changed the argument and no other party other than the "victims" had the chance to correct the "official" narrative.

Is this a joke?

Shit, US is really a shit country.

It's not anarchy you need to worry about, it's the local warlord that rampaged through your city and killed or forcibly exiled anyone who refused to submit to him.

Power abhors a vacuum.

Believing that gamergate was blameless is part of the problem. All the MSM had to do was wait, and people flying the GG banner gave them more than enough material to run with.

This is an unavoidable problem with a decentralized movement. GG would have been much better off with some sort of actual structure, with people in charge and more importantly some accountability.

How can you possibly tell if someone's posting from a phone?

technology in the 21st century ensures that were not going to see any more revolutions from the people. this I it, the end of the line for freedom

you're spreading it until it becomes different information though

"rewards" in place of "retards".

I don't like how most people don't understand what net neutrality even is.

Current internet is like a city street. Non-neutral internet is a street where you might pay to walk more or less past certain buildings, and the sidewalk isn't consistant.

Who fucking cares.

I'd say I'd guess we can hope for a massive solar flare, but that would cause nuclear systems to fail and probably end in human extinction.

The EPA is extremely important if you don't want to end up with china core air quality you rightwing fuckwit.

Very true and good points user.

Wrong board

you guys know that net neutrality under tittle 2 only went into effect in june 2015. It's not like the internet sucked before that.

I don't remember the epa outsourcing our dirty air to china.