The US government aims to restore sweeping regulations for high-speed internet providers, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, reviving “net neutrality” rules for the broadband industry – and an ongoing debate about the internet’s future.
With Anna Gomez confirmed to the FCC effective yesterday, the Democratic commissioners now have a majority and can push through policies like this. Of course, it could be overturned by future Commissioners too.
We really can't rely on things like net neutrality to flip flop every new administration (assuming the high likelihood of each new administration appointing their own commissioner).
We would need legislation to solidify net neutrality.
That would require the US government to do something that actually helps the people in the US at the cost of corporate profit so they definitely won't do this
There have been historic instances of corps going against the spirit if not the rule of net neutrality if we have ever really had such a thing in the US
The most open move I recall was made by cell carriers that also owned media companies. They would use their cell service to punish or hinder usage of non-owned media. They'd limit the resolution of or throttle the speed of competitors services to their customers. Ex. watch our content at 1080p, but competitors are limited to 480p. That or they would "zero-rate" (not count usage against your data limit) their own services. Ex. watching our content doesn't count against you 1GB limit, but watching our competition's does.
I hate the culture of downvoting for simple questions that might seem obvious. If you're lurking and reading this, stop doing that.
My understanding is that no ISP makes it public that they block a large number of sites despite the fact that they are currently technically allowed to do so, but there are a number of isolated incidents of small and short-term access issues that may charitably be mistakes, and also throttling on a site-by-site basis does definitely exist and is employed by a number of ISPs. This regulation does more preventing a backslide into corporate rule and less uplifting our current conditions.
Much appreciated, thank you. This is kind of what I was suspecting as well, I noticed I had forgotten all about it so I'm not "excited" about this news, more like "well that's good I guess"
After what they're trying in Europe we neehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/eus-digital-identity-framework-endangers-browser-securityd net neutrality