Remaining FCC Commissioners Promise to Gut Net Neutrality 'As Soon As Possible'

[Jimbo101]

https://gizmodo.com/remaining-fcc-commissioners-promise-to-gut-net-neutrali-1790363416

FCC chairmen Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly sent a joint letter to the telecom industry’s five largest lobbying groups this week promising to reverse legislation meant to protect consumers from internet speed throttling:

[sakabatou]

1. Fuuuuuuuu!

[davekriss]

2. Just wonderful :(

Guess we better pull out and dust our old mimeograph machines, as between the death of net neutrality and growing total surveillance, it may be the only way to get any anti-establishment messages out.

[hunter]

3. Those who would "gut" net neutrality are small fry.

I hate to be dependent upon the good will of giant corporations, but Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook... etc., will happily gut the opponents of net neutrality.

What's happening now is a negotiation for the survival of the old model of telecommunications. Will companies like Comcast and AT&T still be around twenty years from now? Will broadcasters and cell phone companies still be able to exclusively occupy some chunk of the radio spectrum? Advances in technology have made these business models obsolete.

[Angry Dragon]

4. Treason