Brendan Carr being in charge of the FCC. What does that mean to pirates and going forward? (kbin.melroy.org)

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Going to be interesting times, in a bad way. Everyone knows now in the US the newly appointed FCC chairman is going to be Brendan Carr, who is against the idea of Net Neutrality so we expect that to go away again similarly to how Ajit Pai got rid of it when he was around.

Should anyone be worried about what this guy can do? Will he carry on the fight for entertainment industry's interests?

Okay, can we focus on the subject matter instead of just devolving it into a stupid meme and treating this platform like it's reddit? Come on, grow up and I've blocked half of you already.

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[-] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

against the idea of Net Neutrality

Did this ever actually do anything. The only change I noticed was that shortly after it was repealed we could actually watch YouTube videos at my mother-in-law's hosue (I'm assuming they were paying HughesNet to be able to make their content go faster than the artificially throttled maximum).

[-] cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago

With the caveat I'm technical not legal... Its largely kept data caps off domestic lines, but not entirely. Net neutrality has had a couple taking points and its a long fight at the FCC that's gotten weirder by the decade.

Net neutral meant Microsoft couldn't make the MSN dial up network prefer windows network traffic, over the years companies got smart and just opted to pay for peering instead of running the low profit access tunnel.

Google even drops boxes to cache stuff at tiny ISPs/WISPs, but doesn't deprioritize traffic to other end points.

There have been intermittent swings at labeling this the pay to play it is, but since the investment isn't spilling out of public works there's a decent case this is the fastest you could give out access to everyone.

Source: am former network closet guy who racked google cache devices, installed WISP equipment, legal layman.

[-] entropicdrift 1 points 4 days ago

It never affected domestic data caps. That's a separate policy issue.

[-] cakeistheanswer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

That's industry talking!

"Net Neutrality policies are a national standard by which we ensure that broadband internet service is treated as an essential service. It prohibits internet service providers from blocking, throttling, or engaging in paid prioritization of lawful content. "

So if they block or throttle you when you hit a cap...

Seriously this is probably lost to time, but we were setting up for this battle in the DSLAM era because every provider over sold their bandwidth. It lays pretty much untested because nobody was worried about pennies in a gold rush and that's about the time fiber backbone started to make the problem irrelevant again.

[-] entropicdrift 2 points 3 days ago

Incorrect. Net Neutrality means broadband providers cannot block or throttle individual bits of content. It does not mean they cannot place overall caps on your data usage, merely that they must treat all lawful data equally.