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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:46 PM Nov 2017

FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see and use

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Source: Washington Post

Federal regulators unveiled a plan Tuesday that would give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and online services their customers can see and use, and at what cost.

The move sets the stage for a crucial vote next month at the Federal Communications Commission that could reshape the entire digital ecosystem. The FCC’s Republican chairman, Ajit Pai, has made undoing the government's net neutrality rules one of his top priorities, and Tuesday's move hands a win to broadband companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.

Pai is taking aim at regulations that were approved two years ago under a Democratic presidency and that sought to make sure all Internet content, whether from big or small companies, would be treated equally by Internet providers.

The decision will be put to a vote at the agency's Dec. 14 meeting in Washington. It is expected to pass, with Republicans controlling three of the commission's five seats.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/21/the-fcc-has-unveiled-its-plan-to-rollback-its-net-neutrality-rules/?utm_term=.24aa0a270693



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FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see and use (Original Post) Stonepounder Nov 2017 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #1
More Shock Doctrine....control access ashredux Nov 2017 #2
And of course they'll also move to quash good ISP's that won't take advantage of this. byronius Nov 2017 #3
Locking - duplicate thread muriel_volestrangler Nov 2017 #4

Response to Stonepounder (Original post)

ashredux

(2,593 posts)
2. More Shock Doctrine....control access
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:51 PM
Nov 2017

Control access to news..MOVE WEALTH to the top percentile .....Crashing the economy....

byronius

(7,369 posts)
3. And of course they'll also move to quash good ISP's that won't take advantage of this.
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 01:56 PM
Nov 2017

Because a 'level playing field' or 'free market' is not what this is about.

Destruction of the United States by the Russians is what this is about.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
4. Locking - duplicate thread
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 02:16 PM
Nov 2017

of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141919450 . Please continue discussion there. Thanks.

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