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"Net Neutrality": A misleading term for Obama-era rules forbidding Internet providers (ISPs) from slowing down or otherwise reducing data flow for heavy users.
Rather than letting users decide for themselves if they want to sign up with an ISP who does this (not-so-heavy users might like the lower prices of providers who restrict data flow to super-heavy users, while the Super-heavies might find they can use all they want but have to pay for it), the Federal government decided they have to take care of users who make a bad decision, by arbitrarily restricting the ISPs who offer such choice.
Now the FCC has decided to repeal such govt restrictions. Now users need to read the fine print on their contracts, and/or call an ISP and ask them if they do that, and at what levels of data flow.
Government is no longer your mother, protecting you from every little thing that comes down the pike. You have to actually find out for yourself, and plan accordingly. Horrors!
You know why there is nothing to read in the fine print? BECAUSE THERE ARE MONOPOLIES IN A TON OF MARKETS! Millions of people only have 1 choice of where to get internet from because major companies like Verizon and Comcast have made it illegal to for competition to move in (and that even include muncipalities!)
It is utterly mind warping how dense you people are.
Despite what you old baby boomers who have 0 clue how a digital economy runs, the internet is used for vastly more than things that just playing video games and watching movies. The other day I had to watch videos on how to solve a complex programming problem that I was unfamiliar with in order to meet work related goals. Now imagine Comcast blocking my access to such videos if I didn't pay a fee.
Net Neutrality did not create monopolies, you dolt. It was implemented because ISPs are monopolies.
Deregulated the internet would be prohibiting both the government and providers from regulating it. That is called net neutrality.
A good way to limit content would be to empower monopolies to pick and choose what content you can access and at what cost. That is the repeal of net neutrality.
I will agree that there are morons here. You have effectively outed yourself.
Give me list of all the new national internet providers since 2015. I’ll be waiting.
It was done that way for decades! NN is not the status quo. It was always that way prior to 2015 and nobody cared. Nobody. Except the big government liberals and their cronies who wanted more control.
You're wrong - throttling of content was definitely done before these rules were codified and passed by the FCC. These regulations have been GOOD for consumers.
If you're ISP, you might have been upset about this - as a consumer, I couldn't care less.
Lot's of people have cared about this for a very long time. Where have you been? This debate didn't start in 2015!!!
Give me list of all the new national internet providers since 2015. I’ll be waiting.
Given that Net Neutrality has nothing to do with limiting or not limiting new ISPs from springing up, I'm not sure what your point is other than to further demonstrate your lack of comprehension.
You know why there is nothing to read in the fine print? BECAUSE THERE ARE MONOPOLIES IN A TON OF MARKETS! Millions of people only have 1 choice of where to get internet from because major companies like Verizon and Comcast have made it illegal to for competition to move in (and that even include muncipalities!)
It is utterly mind warping how dense you people are.
Comcast and Verizon can now pass laws? Wow.
I was driving through rural America a couple of years ago and note that millions of people only have access to a single gas station, grocery store or restaurant. Horror!!
Critical thinking isn't one of Trump's nor Tumper's strong suits... not surprised. Now we all have to pay for this stupid decision unless it gets overturned.
Given that Net Neutrality has nothing to do with limiting or not limiting new ISPs from springing up, I'm not sure what your point is other than to further demonstrate your lack of comprehension.
You keep parroting that hundreds of millions only have one choice. Since 2015 when implemented, why wasn’t this horrific inequality fixed?
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