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FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)

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The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president.

The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization.

"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.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 354 points 7 months ago

Obligatory "Fuck Ajit Pai"

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 149 points 7 months ago

seriously, Fuck Ajit Pai and his smug giant mug having ass.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 140 points 7 months ago

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago

You mean the same Ashit Pai who also mismanaged and blew the $9 billion rural digital opportunity fund that was supposed to help underserved areas?

That Ashit Pai?

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

The same shit pie who illegally used copyrighted content on his advertisements for a regulation to make copyright laws more stricterer?

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[-] SnotFlickerman 179 points 7 months ago

They do, however, allow data caps.

These new rules are not the same as the old ones and there's definitely a handful of things that the big companies wanted that they indeed got.

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[-] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 128 points 7 months ago

I just want the removal of data caps. my Plex server is a hungry bitch

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 7 months ago

the data cap should be your rated speed, anything other than that is an illegally advertised speed IMO.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Get a business line, if you plan on staying at your current residence for longer than 3 years. Usually you can get it for a few dollars more than a residential line, and it'll not have a data cap, plus they're going to have a 99.99% SLA for uptime...and you're not going to be getting some script reader if you have issues.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

What they really need is competition.

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[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

If you have a business line you’re still 100% getting a script reader. They just come without a foreign accent.

[-] spikederailed@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately mostly true. I worked for Charter Business, and was told I was "being too helpful". They only want people who read off the script. I moved over to the CCST group before they killed that off. I'm so happy to be away from there, that place was soul sucking.

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[-] pseudopsyche 11 points 7 months ago

I already pay over $100 per month, and a business plan would be around $350 per month. Fuck Comcast.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

I had comcast business class for many years at my old house. When I downsized to my condo, I'm at the mercy of the HOA. They have comcast communities and I can't get business class. Its not terrible but I had to pay $20/mo to upgrade to 1000mb down just to get decent upload speeds. I wish we had a local company USI, that sells fiber internet for very reasonable prices and no data caps. My son's building has it. I moved my plex server to my friend's house who is on USI as well just to keep my bandwidth consumption down.

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[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago

Bro fr

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[-] Juice88@lemmy.world 91 points 7 months ago

Woo! At least until the next Republican Party is ready for an easy paycheck

[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 64 points 7 months ago

Why did it take so long to get this implemented during Biden's term? Why are we only seeing this just before the next election. I ask as an outsider to the states.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 139 points 7 months ago

Biden's original pick got jammed up in the Senate and finally withdrew their name from consideration. This wasn't resolved until last September.

https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-7-2023/fcc-deadlock-vote-senate/

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Since September, Brendan Carr has been doing his best to stall and resist progress.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397264A1.pdf

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[-] isles@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

This is the "fourth year surge," where 1st term presidents rush to get a lot of positive policy change so they look like they're doing a good job. They tend to pass more legislation and use fewer executive orders during this time.

Some of the policy that previous presidents are best known for were passed during this surge time, including Social Security, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Civil Rights Act, Federal Highway Aid Act, Equal Pay act, etc.

Here, asking "why" is asking "what is their incentive".

There may be some merit to saying that a president is an entire branch of government and cycling out staff in key positions to get them in political alignment can take a lot of time. Biden's admin has had to re-staff many departments after Trump.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 79 points 7 months ago

This is the "fourth year surge," where 1st term presidents rush to get a lot of positive policy change so they look like they're doing a good job

It’s literally not that at all. It was about the GOP gumming up the appointment process to the FCC board. Democratic party appointees have only had a 3-2 majority on the FCC board for about 6 months.

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[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 62 points 7 months ago

Thanks obama

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago

Thanks Jessica Rosenworcel.

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[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 60 points 7 months ago

Obligatory fuck Ajit Pai

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[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 48 points 7 months ago

Why are there only five people voting on important FCC regulations

[-] uis@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago

Who are those 2 people?

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago

The Republicans

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

Dems have only had control of the FCC for a few months. It’s nice to see the regulators actually regulating, and not caving to corporate lobbyists.

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[-] laxe@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

3-2, as always

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

I give it a 4 out of 7

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[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Wait why the fuck does the FCC only consist of 5 people?!?

[-] eRac@lemmings.world 12 points 7 months ago

The regulatory agency is pretty large, but it's headed by a 5-member commission.

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[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

So who are the two corrupt corporate dogs that voted against?

[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They are - surprise, surprise - the only two Republicans...

Brendan Carr - 2017 Trump appointee
Nathan Simington - 2020 Trump appointee

[-] quantumfoam@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

It probably wont be too long until the greedy bastards try to roll back this, wait a few years. Access to information really needs to be a basic right that cannot be toggled on and off depending on who is sitting on the fcc.

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