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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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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 360 points 2 months ago

Obligatory "Fuck Ajit Pai"

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 151 points 2 months ago

seriously, Fuck Ajit Pai and his smug giant mug having ass.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 141 points 2 months ago

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

You mean the same Ashit Pai who also mismanaged and blew the $9 billion rural digital opportunity fund that was supposed to help underserved areas?

That Ashit Pai?

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

The same shit pie who illegally used copyrighted content on his advertisements for a regulation to make copyright laws more stricterer?

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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

Obligatory "A shit pie"

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

You mean Paid Agit? Pronounced "Piece of shit!

[-] DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I fucking hate that dude but I imagine he could literally not care less what us pleebs think given that he's presently a partner in a private equity firm.

Nothing is changing until actions have actual consequences.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 183 points 2 months ago

They do, however, allow data caps.

These new rules are not the same as the old ones and there's definitely a handful of things that the big companies wanted that they indeed got.

[-] DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 118 points 2 months ago

I fucking hate data caps - no reason they should exist in this day and age.

[-] scoobford@lemmy.zip 73 points 2 months ago

No reason they should exist in any day and age.

Companies do not pay per packet. Paying more for more bandwidth or lower latency kind of makes sense because theoretically they may be prioritizing your traffic when the network is under too much load. But sending 16 petabytes costs exactly the same as 1kb in a month, assuming your connection is fast enough to handle 16 petabytes in a month.

[-] Trollception@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

True companies do not pay per packet but they do pay for the bandwidth. The more users that use more bandwidth consistently means the ISP needs to invest more money on throughput/links. If you have 100 users and they use 1 mbps on average you can get away with a 100mpbs link. If you have 5 users using 50mpbs on average now you need a gig link. So technically it's not free but yeah bandwidth caps suck big time. My suggestion would be to pick a place to live near a city with a municipal broadband option.

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[-] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 129 points 2 months ago

I just want the removal of data caps. my Plex server is a hungry bitch

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 2 months ago

the data cap should be your rated speed, anything other than that is an illegally advertised speed IMO.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Get a business line, if you plan on staying at your current residence for longer than 3 years. Usually you can get it for a few dollars more than a residential line, and it'll not have a data cap, plus they're going to have a 99.99% SLA for uptime...and you're not going to be getting some script reader if you have issues.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

What they really need is competition.

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[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

If you have a business line you’re still 100% getting a script reader. They just come without a foreign accent.

[-] spikederailed@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately mostly true. I worked for Charter Business, and was told I was "being too helpful". They only want people who read off the script. I moved over to the CCST group before they killed that off. I'm so happy to be away from there, that place was soul sucking.

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[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I had comcast business class for many years at my old house. When I downsized to my condo, I'm at the mercy of the HOA. They have comcast communities and I can't get business class. Its not terrible but I had to pay $20/mo to upgrade to 1000mb down just to get decent upload speeds. I wish we had a local company USI, that sells fiber internet for very reasonable prices and no data caps. My son's building has it. I moved my plex server to my friend's house who is on USI as well just to keep my bandwidth consumption down.

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[-] pythonoob@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago

Bro fr

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[-] Juice88@lemmy.world 91 points 2 months ago

Woo! At least until the next Republican Party is ready for an easy paycheck

[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 months ago

Obligatory fuck Ajit Pai

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[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago

Thanks obama

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago

Thanks Jessica Rosenworcel.

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[-] nytrixus@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago

This is perhaps some of the best news I've read and heard about for a while.

It was scary close, though. It could've gone either way.

Go ahead, prepare your fucking lawsuit, lobbyists. We collectively should be suing you, for all of the times you lied your ass off about spreading broadband to areas you PROMISED you'd bring service to!

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago

homie we should be doing more than suing them.

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[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 51 points 2 months ago

Why are there only five people voting on important FCC regulations

[-] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 months ago

Why did it take so long to get this implemented during Biden's term? Why are we only seeing this just before the next election. I ask as an outsider to the states.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 139 points 2 months ago

Biden's original pick got jammed up in the Senate and finally withdrew their name from consideration. This wasn't resolved until last September.

https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-7-2023/fcc-deadlock-vote-senate/

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

Since September, Brendan Carr has been doing his best to stall and resist progress.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-397264A1.pdf

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[-] uis@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

Who are those 2 people?

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

The Republicans

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

What are their names?

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission

Brendan Carr Nathan Simington

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

Dems have only had control of the FCC for a few months. It’s nice to see the regulators actually regulating, and not caving to corporate lobbyists.

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[-] laxe@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

3-2, as always

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

I give it a 4 out of 7

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[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

So who are the two corrupt corporate dogs that voted against?

[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They are - surprise, surprise - the only two Republicans...

Brendan Carr - 2017 Trump appointee
Nathan Simington - 2020 Trump appointee

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wait why the fuck does the FCC only consist of 5 people?!?

[-] eRac@lemmings.world 13 points 2 months ago

The regulatory agency is pretty large, but it's headed by a 5-member commission.

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[-] quantumfoam@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

It probably wont be too long until the greedy bastards try to roll back this, wait a few years. Access to information really needs to be a basic right that cannot be toggled on and off depending on who is sitting on the fcc.

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