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submitted 1 year ago by Haus@kbin.social to c/news@lemmy.world

The Federal Communications Commission has voted to move forward with a plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections. The rules could be re-established as soon as next spring, but the FCC's effort could face legal challenges.

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[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"On the other hand, critics say that net neutrality rules are unnecessary. "Since the FCC’s 2017 decision to return the Internet to the same successful and bipartisan regulatory framework under which it thrived for decades, broadband speeds in the U.S. have increased, prices are down, competition has intensified, and record-breaking new broadband builds have brought millions of Americans across the digital divide," Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the FCC, said in a statement. "The Internet is not broken and the FCC does not need Title II to fix it. I would encourage the agency to reverse course and focus on the important issues that Congress has authorized the FCC to advance."

Lol if prices are down, why does my bill keep arbitrarily increasing? ~~And I'm pretty sure more companies are consolidating (Spectrum acquired Charter not long ago), so competition my ass.~~

Edit: turns out Charter rebranded as Spectrum, my bad

[-] spider@lemmy.nz 22 points 1 year ago

(Spectrum acquired Charter not long ago)

Spectrum is actually Charter's trade name; they acquired Bright House and Time Warner not long ago.

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

Ah that's right, oops. Edited my post, thanks.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You’re not wrong though. Mine just went up $15/month with CenturyLink’s rebrand as Quantum. That’s with me on their best service, month-to-month fiber.

[-] Yewb@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Ajit pai can go fuck himself

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Corporate traitor ass-clown, glad he's out

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Twice.

In one day

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 30 points 1 year ago

There is no fiber to the curb, and DSL rolled out in the US starting in the late 1990s.

Since then we have cable internet added to the mix.

US broadband speeds are like the US minimum wage.

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

There is no fiber to the curb

Why would you want that now that there's fiber to the home? That's what we have.

US broadband speeds are like the US minimum wage.

And that's because I'm paying for the lowest tier.

[-] Happenchance@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

They are not implying all Americans have poor internet, they are implying that most Americans have bad internet and are forced to use it due to non-competition.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

My options are Comcast or 100 megabit DSL. Neither are fiber.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We have cable Internet up to 1Gbps or DSL at 1.5 Mbps. Such options!

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'd rather not deal with arbitrary data caps and random added fees. Screw Comcast.

[-] TheHottub@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Why does the article have to say "Obama-era"? Net neutrality is just net neutral and we don't need to add extra labels to create a headline. Annoying.

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Because we had net neutrality under Obama. And there’s lots of people who don’t know that. I’ve seen numerous posts back on Reddit and recently on lemmy saying corporate dems will never enact NN. When they did, and they are again. I’m glad the article mentions it. Because those history revisionists “both sides” groups are loud and prominent.

[-] TheHottub@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I remember it well. We just don't need to add to the already polarized political atmosphere by making it Obama-era thing. I was then and still am a huge proponent of net neutrality.

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We do need to add to the polarity. 100%. Dems are not like republicans. And republicans are not like dems. It needs to be pointed out and made clear.

It’s the moderates who said “polarity” was “tearing us apart” during the civil right movement.

Fuckin’ finally, jesus tapdancing christ

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I love that it was proven a vast majority of the public comments in favor of removing net neutrality laws were fake. But instead of just reverting the law back as a result of this discovery we get to fucking hope it doesn’t happen again while we try to apply the same fucking rules.

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

Does someone know what's on the photo?

[-] Jerkingass@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

This is the back side of a network patch panel punched down with wiring that has no strain relief.

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

Great alt text summary.

[-] chili1553@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I believe it's a series of tubes

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