The Obama-era net neutrality rules, passed in 2015, are defunct. This time it's for real.
Though some minor elements of the proposal by the Republican-led FCC to roll back those net neutrality rules went into effect last month, most aspects still required approval from the Office of Management and Budget. That's now been taken care of, with the Federal Communications Commission declaring June 11 as the date the proposal takes effect.
While many people agree with the basic principles of net neutrality, the specific rules enforcing the idea has been a lightning rod for controversy. That's because to get the rules to hold up in court, an earlier, Democrat-led FCC had reclassified broadband networks so that they fell under the same strict regulations that govern telephone networks.
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Well fuck... Time to go get a VPN if you don't already have one.
what VPN do you recommend?
i've had private internet access for about a year now with very little complaints
The fact net neutrality is just more partisan bullshit now is so fucking sad.
"It's the Obamacare of the internet*!"
*in that all it was intended to do was to guarantee equal treatment but Republicans want to shit all over it regardless
enjoy getting fucked out of your money for slower speeds, ya did it, you made america great
hopefully it'll get reversed, but i doubt it
I've used lots, and so far I prefer Mullvad for budget and NordVPN for premium service.
Thanks for the birthday gift fcc, you really didn't have to
I have used NordVPN for 1½ years now and it has worked great.
Well, hopefully they wait a while before they start fucking us all in the ass, even more than they already did. Why can't we just have something without bullshit getting in the way.
reminder to vote in 2018 and 2020
The intent is to provide internet users with a sense of pride and accomplishment for trying to access their favorite websites and services.
Is it saved or doomed goddamnit? I swear I've seen in the last 6 months like six different conflicting headlines ranging from "Net neutrality reinstated" to "Net neutrality completely fucked".
Luckily, my state has passed extremely strong NN laws, but I wonder how much that'll actually affect me. Will companies based elsewhere still be able to fuck me over?
As a summary:
It's fucked at the federal level, the FCC announced the repeal months ago and now it's actually taken effect.
Several states are considering or have passed their own laws to preserve net neutrality, they're in for a fight though because the FCC declared that states cannot make their own internet regulations (because federalism is only good and proper when the Trump Party needs it to be).
"Hahaha! Fool, we will just throttle all VPNs not owned by our ISP. There is no escape from our new data-pricing plan for 300GB a month unlimited, $24.99/mo to start, with a 30 day trial period for approved customers!" (thundercrack)
Ever since the CRA Republicans have been slowly turning all functions of democracy and human rights into partisan issues.
Gee, I wonder if this has anything to do with Comcast ripping basic goddamn cable channels like Cartoon Network out of our service package this past month and putting them in a more expensive one while we're stuck still paying the same price for a lesser service now. Aren't they supposed to be bound to the same contract we are and continuing to provide what we pay for, or is the contract only supposed to protect the big guy? (Spoiler: yes, it is.)
NVPN
last time i checked i believed Nebraska was going to try to combat this by establishing their own version of net neutrality. At least thats one positive out of this stupid red state.
Probably just a coincidence, but part of me feels like they planned on trashing it around E3 since more people were going to be paying more attention to that than this.
In the middle of all these fuckin internet dependent game announcements
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Please buy the Fallout 76 package to enjoy playing fallout 76 without it counting towards your 10 gb data limit.
You are all being critical, but my internet speeds shot up to 100 gigabits per second the moment this took effect. Thank you Ajit Pai!
So are we pretty much out of options? This is just happening?
I mean aside from the Dems getting the majority, is there any chance of this being reversed.
my internet was supposed to be 100 Mb/s but its barely topping 25, thanks Twc/spectre for the free "upgrade"
What will a VPN do for you? Wouldn't it just make ALL of your traffic slow, rather than some of it?
It could potentially prevent ISPs from throttling your traffic to certain services, I.E "you have to buy the netflix package", but it will do nothing to prevent them from practicing usury on speeds or data caps in general.
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