An initial vote will be held in October later this year.
FCC announces plans to resurrect net neutrality rules.::The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access to the internet and its information.
This should have happened a long time ago. The internet is clearly a utility. I don’t know how you could argue that it isn’t. At this point, it’s as necessary as electricity. You can’t apply for a job without an email address. You can’t pay certain bills without an app or website. There are almost no print newspapers anymore because people get their news online. It’s as much a utility as any other necessary service.
Just like healthcare is a human right. But middlemen have inserted themselves into the both the legislative and the business pipeline to make sure people suffer for their profit.
It’s a utility; and it’s also a utility whose chief deliverable is speech. This puts any utility monopolist in the position of controlling the public’s access to speech and ability to speak.
No it doesn’t. It stops them from doing things like throttling access to certain sites and providing special pathways to others. It has nothing to do with speech.
Sure. My point was that Internet monopolists have the technical ability to decide “I don’t like the stuff they say on that Lemmy site, Imma block it.” Which is another good reason to not have Internet services be monopolized, or to not let monopolists exercise that sort of technical ability discretionally.
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It sucks that it’s taking this long to recover from an idiotic administration that fucked up almost literally everything.
Breaking things is a lot easier than building or fixing them.
Especially if you don’t give a flying fuck about using an established process or doing so legally
This should have happened a long time ago. The internet is clearly a utility. I don’t know how you could argue that it isn’t. At this point, it’s as necessary as electricity. You can’t apply for a job without an email address. You can’t pay certain bills without an app or website. There are almost no print newspapers anymore because people get their news online. It’s as much a utility as any other necessary service.
Are they making the internet a utility?
Oh my god. That’s what Net Neutrality does. Do you not even know what it is?
Just like healthcare is a human right. But middlemen have inserted themselves into the both the legislative and the business pipeline to make sure people suffer for their profit.
It’s a utility; and it’s also a utility whose chief deliverable is speech. This puts any utility monopolist in the position of controlling the public’s access to speech and ability to speak.
No it doesn’t. It stops them from doing things like throttling access to certain sites and providing special pathways to others. It has nothing to do with speech.
Sorry, what is “it” in that sentence? In mine, “it” is “Internet access”.
“It” is net neutrality. You know, the thing this post is about. Net neutrality does not police speech.
Sure. My point was that Internet monopolists have the technical ability to decide “I don’t like the stuff they say on that Lemmy site, Imma block it.” Which is another good reason to not have Internet services be monopolized, or to not let monopolists exercise that sort of technical ability discretionally.
Net neutrality is the opposite of that. I’m very confused here.
Um, I wasn’t disagreeing with you up top …