The Commissioner of the FCC, Ajit Pai, appointed to his post by President Donald Trump, has proposed reclassifying internet providers from utilities to information companies, and the rest of the commission is due to vote on it Thursday. If the vote goes along party lines, net neutrality will be repealed and internet providers will be able to legally control the speed of content running through their network, a practice that is currently prohibited. But for many reasons, the net neutrality vote is a controversial one.
Here’s everything you need to know:
www.fortune.com
Opinion: Eliminating net neutrality would hurt rural America
www.thehill.com
The End of Net Neutrality Isn't the End of the World
The evidence so far is that corporations won't be much affected and consumers could even benefit.
www.bloomberg.com
Net neutrality rules expected to be repealed on 12/14
The concept of net-neutrality as defined by the FCC, has nothing specifically to do with policing internet content. So while many are saying that ending net neutrality will mean that one will no longer be allowed to post political content online that challenges the mainstream media/deep state narrative, this is technically not true, although the danger is a lurking one, for reasons which shall be explored subsequently.
The deceptive term net-neutrality, brought to you by the same country that called the massacre of one million innocent Iraqis "operation Iraqi freedom", was a series of new FCC rules passed in 2015, designed to regulate internet providers, the biggest of which in the US today are, Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, AT & T and Cox.
The aim was to regulate the internet in the same way as other telecom services. Such regulations are designed to prohibit service providers for showing preferential treatment to any specific website. To give some hyperbolic examples, if one was using Comcast as an internet provider, without net-neutrality, the fear existed that they could allow "Billy's Cox Communications Fansite" (not a real website) to load slower than "Uncle Jo's Online Museum of Stalin" (also not a real website).
In reality, if 'web provider A' had a business relationship with Netflix, it could make it so that Netflix videos stream faster on their service than that of a rival video streaming website, such as Amazon Prime.
Whether a service provider could do that even without net-neutrality rules is debatable due to unfair competition and anti-trust laws which not only predate Obama's net-neutrality rules, but predate the invention of the internet.
However, if for whatever reason, an internet service provider wanted to slow down a website owned by a non-wealthy individual rather than a mega-corporation like Amazon, it could conceivably do so, unless enough small website owners filed a class action lawsuit against such a service provider due to the individual lack of funds that a large corporation would have at its disposal.
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Welcome to Trumpworld, where the corporations are free to "tread" on everyone, all in the name of "freedom" and "greatness." SOME regulations exist for good reason; they protect the average citizen from the Robber Barons and corrupt government!
ReplyDeleteThat's just the tip of the iceberg. The tax bill "reform" has the lowest-earning households paying hundreds more than the lower middle class by 2027; the Department of Labor has just issued a ruling that restaurant owners who have pooled their employees' tips and then split them up among the employees may now pool them and not give them back at all; nine million children were deprived of medical coverage for two months (but now have it back only temporarily)... The GOP is spitting on the people who voted for them and for Trump. It's like they're taunting them, "How stupid do you think you are? Let me show you!"
ReplyDeleteTrump seemed to be a buffoon; that was an improvement over HRC. How were we to know he was also an ogre?
DeleteTrump's moral, ethical, and intellectual deficiencies were on full display for years; should have been a no-brainer. I suppose that's the problem; too many no-brainers.
DeleteThere were a lot of people who already knew he was an ogre.
DeleteWhen Trump invited Bill Clinton's accusers to one of the debates, Clinton should have packed the hall with the 1,400 contractors who had to sue him for payment.
All of these liberal comments make it clear you all have no idea what your commenting on, and just a reason to slam Trump. We'll Trump has given us a Dow Jones Avg and Stock Market at record highs, which means a stronger economy more money in the pockets of corporations means more jobs, and these people spend there vacation time and money in VT, which means there is more money to spread around in VT. Go Trump Go keep changing up the status quo and Drain the Swamp.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't work in Ludlow you don't see a dime from "these" people.
DeleteJob growth hasn’t accelerated under Trump. As of today, 12/14/17, we have 10 months of job growth data since Trump took office (with the November data released the other day). During those 10 months, we have added 1.700 million jobs.
DeleteDuring the same time period last year, we added 1.959 million. During that same time in 2015, we added 2.269 million. In 2014, 2.699. 2013 saw 2.084 million during that time. 2012 was slower, with 1.507 million. During those months in 2011, we added 1.723 million.
In the last 7 years, the 10 months that Trump has been in office has seen the second slowest growth of the same time period. Part of that will be because the unemployment rate is lower, but claiming that job growth is “high” is a questionable premise as it is slower compared to most other recent years.
Of course the stock markets are going up. All these changes are making it more favorable for corporations to operate. You are naïve though if you think this equates to more jobs. The corporations have made it very clear that they will squeeze every ounce of productivity out of there employees before rewarding any of them or make their lives easier. They will though gladly pass on the savings to executive bonuses and to their stockholders.
ReplyDeleteThe internet is supposed to be a free medium that has been paid for by taxpayers. What you pay for every month is the ability to connect to it via a provider. Picture someone like Comcast who will now have the ability to throttle down access to Netflix or Hulu. Worse, think about the ability of these providers controlling which news sites you access. That in my opinion is something we should be concerned about.
Do you realize that most of you idiots don't pat a penny of FEDERAL income tax? In fact most of you get back more than you pay. Why don't you read up on it rather then becoming CNN bafoons.
ReplyDeleteReally? Don't pay fed tax? Hum
DeleteWow, not only did I pay MY federal income taxes, but since I worked for 35 years in a donor state, I paid yours too, idiot.
DeleteChuck is talking about Trump (the idiot) not paying any taxes.
DeleteNo, I think he's talking about Social Security recipients. That's the standard far-right line, anyway. Retirees are "cheating" younger conservatives by getting what we worked for. We should all die young so that they can have more when they retire, and stop paying taxes, and get more than they pay in......
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