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FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)

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The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president.

The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization.

"Consumers have made clear to us they do not want their broadband provider cutting sweetheart deals, with fast lanes for some services and slow lanes for others," FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at today's meeting.

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

it probably means that they would have to upgrade their little bunny hopping network technology that has about 300ms latency end to end, because god forbid you roll out a simple technology and have an easy time maintaining it.

Which is probably why they do it.

[-] III@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Upgrade infrastructure?! No, no. That money needs to go to shareholders. There's no way millions of people need decent internet speeds more than shareholders need their 12th yacht.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

you mean to tell me that rolling out fiber is cheap and that servicing it end to end is also cheap and that the latency and speeds it provides keeps customers happy meaning we have to spend less time dealing with them?

That's cool, call me when i care.

sincerely, your local ISP.

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