Next week, a federal appeals court in Washington will hear one of its biggest cases of the year, one whose outcome will directly affect how Internet providers can alter your experience online.
It's been a year to the day since net neutrality was repealed, so what better time to see how it's affecting the average web user?
What? I'm sorry, but charging a rental fee for a modem the user outright owns has NOTHING to do with net neutrality. That is just simple fraud, or a mistake. Law enforcement and civil actions are not blocked by the corporate FCC takeover.
I'm all for net neutrality, and I think Ajit Pai should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. But this is ridiculous clickbait.
Not quite they'll be renting. The ip address or the routing table or the authentication key or any number of items they could claim as renting.
They've caught ISPs carriers slowing traffic or trying to start selling fast lanes. Might not be in your area, but it is happening.
One example: https://www.bloomberg.com/n...
Dang look at that bellend. He doesn't get the whole laugh at or with thing does he....
As expected, net neutrality is officially gone, as of today, June 11. This is a fact that the FCC’s Ajit Pai says is a good thing. In a recent CNET op-ed, the chairman says he supports a free and open internet and you will too, in time.Of course, the FCC's Ajit Pai says it is a good thing.
now the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. voices get silenced. smaller websites and apps will find it harder to grow as well.
yeah...looks like the ideal future of the internet.
The Senate on Wednesday voted to reinstate the FCC's net neutrality rules, passing a bill that has little chance of advancing in the House but offers net neutrality supporters and Democrats a political rallying point for the midterm elections.
its dumb things like this that make encryption and pivate networks become a thing. and then the same people that forced us to use such methods are the ones saying encryption is bad.
Oh boy I forgot how much I love comments on newspaper websites. 99 percent of the posters have no idea as to what net neutrality is - my favourite one says that: due to govt takeover of the internet 'the market will react and make a competing internet' and furthermore if people truly didn't like their ISP if enough complained, a new one would come to service their needs.
Wondering if being dropped on your head as a child is a prerequisite to commenting on the Washington Post...
I think the internet needs to be open on every level. They need to open up local competition among providers. And make it a right of the people instead of dividing the country into sections and divvying it up. The cable, wireless and phone companies need to be separated. We need a new Ma Bell type breakup because they are really one large company with few exceptions. There is no real competition. Make the cell providers and others go against each other. With things like Binge On they are on more equal footing.