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| Topic | Biden's FCC Reinstates Net Neutrality by 3-2 Vote |
| CableZL 04/29/24 1:27:44 PM #16: | Deegs posted...
Asked this in another thread but I'm confused what Net Neutrality even gets us at this point. I'm very aware of the horror stories of a carved up internet but we were without net neutrality for 7 years and never got anything even remotely similar. I'm not against regulation where warranted but I'm not sure this one particularly is. https://consumerist.com/2014/02/23/netflix -agrees-to-pay-comcast-to-end-slowdown/ Net neutrality regulations came into play because multiple US ISPs were throttling traffic to Netflix. Netflix eventually paid money to those ISPs to get them to stop throttling traffic and then passed the cost of those payments down to Netflix subscribers by increasing the subscription fee. The state of the internet is better in 2024 than it was in 2014 in that high fiber is much more prevalent in ISP networks. However, without net neutrality regulations in place, we're just trusting ISPs to not do that again. --- https://i.imgtc.com/d9Fc4Qq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/BKHTxYq.gif https://i.imgtc.com/vYYIuDx.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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