The Federal Communications Commission's two Republican members told ISPs yesterday that they will get to work on gutting net neutrality rules "as soon as possible."
>FCC Republicans Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly sent a letter to five lobby groups representing wireless carriers and small ISPs; while the letter is mostly about plans to extend an exemption for small providers from certain disclosure requirements, the commissioners also said they will tackle the entire net neutrality order shortly after President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20.
>"[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."
>Pai and O'Rielly will have a 2-1 Republican majority on the FCC after the departure of Democratic Chairman Tom Wheeler on January 20. Pai previously said that the Title II net neutrality order's "days are numbered" under Trump, while O'Rielly said he intends to "undo harmful policies" such as the Title II reclassification.
Bernie Sanders' entire campaign is funded by donations from individual citizens with an average of $30. The entire point of what he's doing is in line with the values for which you just praised Trump. Also, as I just said in response to the other user, Bernie is for net neutrality and cracking down on the absolutely ridiculous monopolistic keking the ISPs get away with right now. Do some actual research and reevaluate your frankly asinine point of view.
Elijah Lee
>Bernie's third $600,000 home was funded by donations from individual citizens with an average of $30
No refunds, but we are taking recounts for $2 mil.
Brody Richardson
Your "research" and "facts" come from the Daily Mail, bro. You're slightly less informed about net neutrality than your average gerbil.
Jeremiah Barnes
>Bernie Sanders' entire campaign You mean his new house? No refunds though.
Christian Allen
And then all advertizing companies come together and pay a bunch of congressman millions of dollars each to get rid of net neutrality.
Suddenly you have to pay an extra 120 dollars a month to get the whole internet with forced ads every 15 minutes, adblock only means your internet tops for 3 minutes while the blocked ad plays out.
Jace Powell
What is net neutrality going to be replaced with?
Ayden Robinson
Fuck Airtel and Flipkart with their plans to screw with internet in India. Net Neutrality going for a toss in India.
Carson Jackson
>considering the worst possible outcome
or faster and cheaper internet becomes available thanks to competition. Better yet, get a discount for opting out of facebook/reddit/tumblr/instagram.
A clean internet is best internet.
>but muh censorship
bro, Pa, Jeet is cracking down on people pulling content from the internet...
Carter Cruz
This even seems to be anti-business and against capitalism itself.
Tiered consumer plans would screw over a lot of companies in the Internet services market, large and small. Just like the Macromedia-Adobe merger screwed over a lot of graphic designers who were relying on Macromedia Freehand.
As for the retards who think that net neutrality is against freedom of speech, I'm sure they were absent from the debate back in 2012 when the ITU tried to make a power grab for the Internet, trying to become its global regulatory body. And so were the ISPs, which had a lot more clout in the ITU than in the ICANN and would have benefited from the takeover.
Ryder Kelly
ISPs can do all of that under net neutrality.
Ian Gonzalez
Net neutrality is basically just the concept that content shouldn't be tampered with or hindered just because of its origin. The internet in America has pretty much always had some form of net neutrality regulation in place, the last few months the FCC has been scrambling to find a way to reimplement net neutrality because verizon sued them and had net neutrality thrown out. Net neutrality is the status quo the lack of net neutrality is the actual change.
If America had a competitive broadband market we might not even need net neutrality inscribed into law because people could just go somewhere else if ISPs did something anti-competitive. Net neutrality is basically harmless if there's competition. If there isn't competition it prevents the remain companies from abusing their monopoly.
Nolan Howard
So how does net neutrality prevent ISPs from charging high prices or implementing data caps?
Brandon Diaz
The Internet is under attack.
Within the next few months, the Federal Communications Commission will vote on rules that would allow Internet service providers to discriminate online and create pay-to-play fast lanes. If the FCC approves this plan, Net Neutrality will vanish.
This is a serious fight. Powerful companies like AT&T and Verizon are deploying hundreds of lobbyists to stop the FCC from making rules that would actually protect Internet users. And Comcast is pretending to support Net Neutrality to sell the government on its merger with Time Warner Cable.
Here’s the good news: Millions of people are fighting back. We’re seeing unprecedented levels of support for the open Internet.
But if we’re going to win, we need to get bigger and louder than ever before — and we need to do it fast.
Luis Kelly
Are you a bot? None of your replies have anything to do with the conversation.
Kayden Williams
but wait, the FCC is mainly in charge of interference.
you want the FTC (federal trade commission) to get in on this. they are in charge of anti-trust and consumer protection.
Eli Turner
Shadowy” anti-net neutrality group submitted 56.5% of comments to FCC
Us subhumans have no chance against the you know who. Land of the free my ass. Land of the circumcised, and not only genital
Matthew Martinez
Net neutrality would still be needed. The only thing the improvements would bring is faster speeds, it wouldn't guarantee that those speeds would remain consistent for every service because there is still an oligopoly.
Andrew Rivera
This is bullshit. Comcast isn't interested in your pussyass chump change. This is what's going to happen, and here's why it's good.
Comcast (and other ISPs) will now be able to charge Google, Facebook, Twitter, Hulu and Netflix extra moneys to set up "fast lanes" which means investing in new infrastructure. Take Google's fiber, they started that up when Verizon V. FCC started going because they knew what was coming and wanted to get a headstart. They'll pay Comcast a few billion to let them hook up their fancy new Fiber, which will make Comcast and Google tons of money and allow them to spread that new infrastructure to us, the end-user.
You niggers think your internet service is even good? Look at Glorious Nippon, Korea, hell even SE Asia has something liek 100+ gigabits per second (though they do have data caps--it's something ridiculous like 500 gigs/month). This is the most logical way to go about this because this way everybody makes money. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft will not fucking tolerate ISPs fucking everything up for them by introducing data caps and dicking around with the end users. If anything, THEY have the monopoly--not Comcast/Verizon/Whatever.
The only people that want Net Neutrality to stick around are the people who have a vested financial interest in keeping our internets slow and shitty.
Luis Martin
>Comcast (and other ISPs) will now be able to charge Google, Facebook, Twitter, Hulu and Netflix extra moneys to set up "fast lanes" which means investing in new infrastructure.
Couldn't make it any further than this, 10/10 comedy post.
Austin Nelson
>bernout top kek Bernie can still win just keep waiting :^)
Christopher Ward
Net Neutrality just keeps the internet how it was previously - all traffic is treated equal and there's no paid prioritization.
It's basically keeping the status quo. It won't require active regulation. Go cry your conservative crocodile tears somewhere else.
>Oh how will the companies rape the consumers even more if they're labeled as common carriers! Companies are people too!
Henry Mitchell
What will actually happen is they'll do priority lanes and spend as little as possible in new infrastructure
Also if this FCC anti net neutrality goes through it will suck hard.
Seriously guys, write your senators and house critters at the state and federal levels. We need to stop this shit.
Ethan Thomas
AMD: never supported SOPA never lobbied against net neutrality contributes to GCC, has never contributed any performance optimizations that would cripple code on other X86 chips never bribed OEMs to create what is effectively a monopoly never paid off reviewers to publish phony benches to make their CPUs look better than they really were never got censured by the US government as well as the EU for unethical business practices never worked hand in hand with the MPAA to create new forms of DRM created Mantle to push both OpenGL and D3D forward in performance and low level optimization created the HSA foundation to push forward compute languages and codify a system for programmability across all logic in a system with data coherency at its core created AMD64, the 64bit extension to X86 used by every modern X86 processor has created countless other standards and freely contributed them to the computing world
They're the only CPU vendor worthy of my business, despite being crippled by a decade of poor management.
