The countdown has begun for the end of net neutrality
The publication of the ruling kicks off a 60-day timer for the rule to become law, meaning April 23 is the drop-dead date. At this point, nothing is standing in its way, short of an act of Congress. The Senate is reportedly one vote short of being able to overturn the ruling, but a similar bill in the House has more of an uphill battle. Now that the publication has happened, there will likely be more urgency to get a deal worked out or some type of net neutrality bill passed.
While Congress continues to make noise about blocking the FCC ruling, several states have moved to keep enforcing net neutrality rules. Also, several lobbying groups and state attorneys general have filed court cases to keep net neutrality on the books. Several major tech companies have also thrown their weight behind supporting net neutrality, including Apple, Google, Amazon, and Mozilla. Even Burger King took a shot at the FCC to try to educate people on the implications of the repeal.
Net neutrality had classified ISPs under stricter Title II guidelines, but the repeal removed those rules. Although ISPs have said there will be no change in how they operate, supporters of net neutrality fear that the ISPs may start throttling content and charging more for specific website packages. Even with Title II in place, several ISPs were called on the carpet for attempting to get around the rules.
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661KingPosted:
There seems to be a lot of misunderstandings about net neutrality. It isn't necessarily about a savings issue, its about giving companies an unfair advantage. With net neutrality being repealed, it puts a massive amount of power in an ISPs hands. To make things very simple, Ill give an example. Imagine 2 tech forums, one is TTG and the other is a tech forum owned by an ISP. With net neutrality repealed, an ISP can start throttling (slowing down) TTGs server connections unless TTG pays more for a "premium connection". This causes either 1 of 2 things. Either TTG doesn't pay and stays with the throttled connection causing members to move to the faster ISP owned forum or they pay the premium. TTG might be able to afford the unfair price increase but its an added burden to TTGs overall cost to run the site.
Not all companies will be able to afford the increase and will either close up shop or pass on the fees to its members (making you pay more). It gets even messier when it comes to politics. Right leaning ISPs might throttle left leaning sites and left leaning ISPs might throttle right leaning sites.
Not all companies will be able to afford the increase and will either close up shop or pass on the fees to its members (making you pay more). It gets even messier when it comes to politics. Right leaning ISPs might throttle left leaning sites and left leaning ISPs might throttle right leaning sites.
MazePosted:
PCTentacion2018 I have heard alot about this on twitter. I do not really understand it THAT well. I really want to know more about this. From what I have heard the internet is going to turn into a very expensive place.
Basically, everything we do is going to cost us money visiting sites watching videos everything
That is a misconception. That is if it goes to complete shit. I don't ever see it going that far as if it did internet would not be the same. There have been many major changes that have taken place over the past decade and I have yet to see anything close to what you describe. Net Neutrality or not I don't see it impacting the internet as much as people say it will. I feel people are making it a much bigger deal then what it is. Most of the people have no clue really what NN is and they read an article about it and think they are Expert on the subject, its funny to me.
Yeah that's pretty much what I was trying to get at. The whole paying to get on sites is a rumor spread around and shouldn't be spread here.
PCPosted:
Tentacion2018 I have heard alot about this on twitter. I do not really understand it THAT well. I really want to know more about this. From what I have heard the internet is going to turn into a very expensive place.
Basically, everything we do is going to cost us money visiting sites watching videos everything
That is a misconception. That is if it goes to complete shit. I don't ever see it going that far as if it did internet would not be the same. There have been many major changes that have taken place over the past decade and I have yet to see anything close to what you describe. Net Neutrality or not I don't see it impacting the internet as much as people say it will. I feel people are making it a much bigger deal then what it is. Most of the people have no clue really what NN is and they read an article about it and think they are Expert on the subject, its funny to me.
MazePosted:
Common misconception that you're gonna have to pay more to get on which is necessarily the case. At least the comments seem that way.
But this is the kind of news I like to see.
But this is the kind of news I like to see.
lbreadsticklPosted:
I don't see the big deal in all this. I mean people say when it's gone it'll cost here and there and the internet will go to shit, but after net neutrality kicked in I never saw a difference in my savings or speeds.
WLRPosted:
2018 I have heard alot about this on twitter. I do not really understand it THAT well. I really want to know more about this. From what I have heard the internet is going to turn into a very expensive place.
Basically everything we do is going to cost us money visiting sites watching videos everything
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