The Federal Communications Commission has voted to move forward with a plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections. The rules could be re-established as soon as next spring, but the FCC's effort could face legal challenges.

The Federal Communications Commission has voted to move forward with a plan to restore Obama-era net neutrality protections. The rules could be re-established as soon as next spring, but the FCC’s effort could face legal challenges.

  • mommykink@lemmy.world
    454·
    1 year ago

    Cannot wait for this to amount to nothing over the next 12 months and seeing all the bots very real people hail it was a win for >!union busting!< Biden come next November

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
        211·
        1 year ago

        There is a very real chance that since we’re heading for an election year, the ISPs can just throttle it in litigation for the next 16 months and should the GOP win, then it’s moot.

    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
      161·
      1 year ago

      So you’re all in on the ever increasing cost of internet service, then? You are pleased that getting more than 25 mbits requires an extra $30 per month and gigabit rates are well past $150?

      Damn. You be you, but I’d rather not be fleeced while they also strip me of my privacy rights.

      Thankfully we actually got a competitor here recently and went from $90 for 25mbits up, 5 down to $68 for 1gig up/down.

      Yes, that is how bad it is in America. 3 years ago that $90 was $60, after I knocked it down from $90 by dropping my data rate and ditching their minimal cable plan that mostly had shopping channels on it and HBO Max, only viewable on my phone, and I never managed to get it to work.

      Their rates consistently go up by up to 10% per year with zero improvements.

      • mommykink@lemmy.world
        47·
        1 year ago

        Net neutrality is a bandaid on a bullet wound at this point. Actually, that’s not entirely accurate, it’s more like a bandaid on a migraine.

        The internet and internet access needs to be nationalized, this isn’t 1995, there’s no reason the internet should be controlled by a handful of corporations, and no amount of FCC regulation can fix the problems that causes.

        • ngdev@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Ah yes, the tired, old “perfect being the enemy of good”, so let’s just let it all go to shit since we can’t get it perfect