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Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services

The FCC will meet on October 19th to vote on proposing Title II reclassification that would support accompanying net neutrality protections

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[-] WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Did companies ever actually do anything after net neutrality went away? I still think it's a great thing to have but just genuinely curious if anything really happened cause I didn't notice much.

[-] virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that they mostly haven't, with a couple exceptions like a few ISPs offering to priorities to pings for gaming (as FeelThePower mentioned), throttle certain protocols (e.g. Torrenting), or refuse to carry traffic for certain sites (e.g. Kiwi Farms). All of this would be prevented under net neutrality.

As far as I'm aware though, an extremely overwhelmingly portion of traffic (like you'd have to do a lot of digging to find an example otherwise) already adheres to net neutrality since it's pretty pointless for a company to spend resources and goodwill to mess with traffic.

I don't think too much will change. It is nice in the sense it will prevent an ISP from doing things against specific sites, although like mentioned above most of the protections are theoretical ATM.

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[-] yoz@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Can someone tldr what's net neutrality?

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Internet infrastructure companies have to treat all traffic equally.

For example, without net neutrality, Comcast could elect to throttle any streaming services that they didn’t own / co-own. So great speeds for Peacock and Hulu, but was a Max, Netflix, AppleTV, etc all get throttled unless you pay up.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Can someone tldr what’s net neutrality?

Simplified, your ISP cannot favor one company over another when delivering their website content to your computer. All data must be delivered equally.

[-] yoz@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a big win for the consumers.

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[-] rchive@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

What would you all say if I started an ISP that offered $3 a month for service only to a handful of websites? That would be prohibited under Net Neutrality, yet I could see something like that being useful to plenty of people, like my grandparents who use the Internet only to send emails and check their local news.

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[-] Tag365@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wait, Net Neutrality was removed?

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

One of the many things fucked during the Trump years. Easy to have lost it in all that noise.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Why do you think paid subscriptions with a tier I've been a thing, it was one of the first things Donald Trump did

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