Net Neutrality Restored

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/25/net-neutrality-restored/

Net Neutrality Restored
April 25, 2024 at 10:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

“The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to restore ‘net neutrality’ rules that prevent broadband internet providers such as Comcast and Verizon from favoring some sites and apps over others,” the AP reports.

“The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration. In 2017, under then-President Donald Trump, the FCC repealed those rules.”

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Thank you, President Biden!

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[LucasD]

3. I'm glad is has been restored, but...

... it has also been neutered.

It now falls short in one important area: Fast lane and slow lane regulation.

From Eff.org:

"It falls short, though, in a critical way: the FCC seems to think that it’s not okay to favor certain sites or services by slowing down other traffic, but it might be okay to favor them by giving them access to so-called fast lanes such as 5G network slices. First of all, in a world with a certain amount of finite bandwidth, favoring some traffic necessarily impairs other traffic. Secondly, the harms to speech and competition would be the same even if an ISP could conjure more bandwidth from thin air to speed up traffic from its business partners. Whether your access to Spotify is faster than your access to Bandcamp because Spotify is sped up or because Bandcamp is slowed down doesn’t matter because the end result is the same: Spotify is faster than Bandcamp and so you are incentivized to use Spotify over Bandcamp."

To put it more bluntly, they could easily slow access to democraticunder.com, while leaving truthsocial.com at full speed.

[snot]

6. Yikes. So...

what's the "neutrality" part?

[niyad]

4. Thank you, President Biden!

[live love laugh]

5. Wonderful!