FCC kicks off effort to roll back net neutrality rules

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

The FCC voted along party lines Thursday to begin the process of repealing Obama-era net neutrality rules, which require internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon to treat all web traffic equally.

The agency's two Republicans, Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, voted in favor of the measure, which would weaken the FCC's oversight over ISPs and eliminate the regulatory foundation of the 2015 Open Internet Order. The proposal also seeks comment on whether to scrap or modify rules preventing internet providers from blocking or slowing web traffic or negotiating paid deals for internet "fast lanes."

The lone Democrat on the commission, Mignon Clyburn, voted against the proposal.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/18/fcc-net-neutrality-rules-238529

[bucolic_frolic]

1. If Verizon treats me any more unequally

I may as well cancel my service and grab a public access site once a week

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. ON election day we were told Hillary and Trump were the same.

[WhiteTara]

8. Wrong. We were told she was worse.

[rurallib]

3. the internet is the only medium where the left has anything close to equal access

the right controls TV, Radio, newspapers and magazine. A neutral internet is the only hope for learning what is really happening in the world.

Once the right controls that we will be just like - Russia?

[Ohioblue22]

4. well it was gone anyway cause you know hillary and trump were the same

that's sarcasm for you alerters

[elmac]

5. and MSNBC's "progressives" will not say one word about it

Why? Because Comcast would give them the boot.

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. Probably the #1 issue going forward

Eliminating Net Neutrality will be like pulling the net from out from under us. Its already turned so commercial since I first signed up. YouTube without commercials...sigh. But worse than commercialism run amuck, is that the moneyed right wing ownership will make it more expensive and harder to log onto, any site that is critical of the right. Including DU.

[OKNancy]

7. kick

[NotMyFuhrer]

9. Net-neutrality in a nutshell: Comcast and FCC Republicans want to screw consumers . . . find out

Net-neutrality is a Republican Trojan Horse to screw regular citizens (their low profit consumers) . . .

When combined with Privacy / Security relaxation initiatives . . . they will destroy the internet . . . as we know it.

OPPOSE their insane GREED under the ruse of “pro-investment and pro-innovation”

[airplaneman]

10. I see being able to do less and less of what I want on the internet.

I am just going to take up other hobbies and get less interested. Its discouraging the direction this country is going. Things could be so much better but wont probably in the rest of my lifetime.
-Airplane