Americans who support net neutrality find that their voices don’t count for much. Public opinion helped push the FCC to adopt rules that prevent ISPs from blocking or throttling Internet content and from charging websites or other online services for priority treatment on the network.
Public opinion hasn't changed much in the two-plus years that the rules have been on the books. The cable lobby surveyed registered voters this year and found that most of them continue to support bans on blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization. Multiple polls have found that net neutrality rules are popular with both Democratic and Republican voters.
net neutrality rules have some vocal and influential opponents. The most prominent are Republican politicians and regulators, conservative think tanks, and the Internet service providers that have to follow the rules. Those are the voices that counted most in Pai's decision to eliminate popular consumer protection regulations.
Pai's full proposal is available here (link below) and is expected to be approved in a commission vote on December 14.
1. FCC official explains why comments can be dismissed
2. Pai likes public opinion—when it agrees with him
The fucked up thing as soon as it passed the Internet turned into a fascist commie gulag of opinionated gate keepers. By repealing this shit, we can sue the Fuck out of these commie motherfuckers and that has Soros, Bezos and the other Assclowns shitting their pants.
No, what we have is a government mandated monopoly where they’ve removed the restrictions that would prevent them from abusing their captive customers. It’s basically a return to the bad old days of Ma Bell, internet style. If you’re going to lock in customers to a single available broadband ISP, then you’d better keep rules in place to prevent the abuse of the monopoly! Otherwise it’s just abuse of the people by an unholy alliance of the government and private industry.
Public opinion hasn't changed much in the two-plus years that the rules have been on the books. The cable lobby surveyed registered voters this year and found that most of them continue to support bans on blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization. Multiple polls have found that net neutrality rules are popular with both Democratic and Republican voters.
net neutrality rules have some vocal and influential opponents. The most prominent are Republican politicians and regulators, conservative think tanks, and the Internet service providers that have to follow the rules. Those are the voices that counted most in Pai's decision to eliminate popular consumer protection regulations.
Pai's full proposal is available here (link below) and is expected to be approved in a commission vote on December 14.
1. FCC official explains why comments can be dismissed
2. Pai likes public opinion—when it agrees with him
3. Comments that count more than others
More on each of the above sections: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/why-the-fcc-ignored-public-opinion-in-its-push-to-kill-net-neutrality/
Pai's Proposal, All 210 pages of it: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-347927A1.pdf
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