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Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services

The FCC will meet on October 19th to vote on proposing Title II reclassification that would support accompanying net neutrality protections

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 158 points 1 year ago

That’s great but can we stop rubberbanding our rights in and out of existence?

[-] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 103 points 1 year ago

To do that the current party in favor of removing rights needs to be kept out of power long enough that they conclude that removing rights is an electoral loser and changes their ideology accordingly.

I'm not going to hold my breath.

Even if that happened they still wouldn’t learn or they’d just lie and then do it anyway.

[-] PupBiru@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

hopefully at least when ISPs and companies see that it’ll just be back and forth, and that things like “fast lanes” can’t be relied upon in business planning there just won’t be a market for it, or at least the fuckery will be significantly diminished because it’s not reliable long-term

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure long term viability is a huge concern for them as long as they can make a dollar today.

[-] PupBiru@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

that’s true, but this would require time and money to implement, market, etc, and would almost certainly require big b2b contracts to be signed

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