Obama wants to make the internet a utility

[Mystical]

What are the pros to the consumer of ending net neutrality? Hearing how its bad can someone tell me how its good?

 

[CharminTide]

What are the pros to the consumer of ending net neutrality? Hearing how its bad can someone tell me how its good?

I can't recommend The Weeds podcast highly enough. LINK

Their most recent episode talks about the FCC and net neutrality, and will answer your question. Some folks will dismiss it sight unseen because the Vox website tends to be a bit liberal, but they do offer multiple viewpoints on the podcast whenever warranted, and the discussion is always intelligent.

 

[CharminTide]

Screw all of these people.

FCC rejects NY AG's probe into net neutrality comments

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) denied the New York attorney general’s request for information about comments filed in the agency’s net neutrality record.

Thomas Johnson, the FCC’s general counsel, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) on Thursday saying that the commission would not be handing over logs Schneiderman requested in order to investigate fake comments.

Johnson wrote that “while your letter suggests that the public comment process was somehow ‘corrupted’ by the alleged submission of comments under false names, you offer no evidence that this activity affected the Commission’s ability to review and respond to comments in the record."

"We know the comments were falsified, but it doesn't matter because we weren't going to read them anyway."

 

[Jon]

This is the FCC HQ in DC (supposedly)

 

[CharminTide]

New York AG: As many as 2 million net neutrality comments are fake

As many as 2 million net neutrality comments filed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) were fake, according to the New York Attorney General’s office.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) slammed the FCC on Wednesday over the agency’s decision to reject his previous request for information about comments filed about net neutrality and to delay the vote amid the fake comments. “As we’ve told the FCC: moving forward with this vote would make a mockery of our public comment process and reward those who perpetrated this fraud to advance their own hidden agenda,” Schneiderman said. “The FCC must postpone this vote and work with us to get to the bottom of what happened.”

In a letter to the agency, Schneiderman attacked the FCC’s response for deciding to continue with the vote to scrap net neutrality rules on Thursday, arguing that the agency’s is undermining its desire to protect its “integrity” by “ignoring clear evidence that two million of the comments it received stole Americans’ identities.”

According to the New York attorney general’s analysis, many fake comments used the names and identities of Americans, including in some cases deceased individuals. “None of the assertions in your letter justify the FCC’s refusal to share evidence of who committed these illegal acts,” Schneiderman said.

Schneiderman has requested the IP logs so their office can attempt to track the origin of these fake comments. The FCC has refused to provide this. LINK​

 

[jthomas666]

Interesting...

[FONT=&quot]On the eve of a Federal Communications Commission vote to repeal net neutrality rules, some congressional Republicans are suddenly pivoting against the Trump administration and joining the outcry against the move — just as a new poll shows the vast majority of GOP voters want the rules preserved.[/FONT]

 

[cbi1972]

This has the potential to provoke domestic terrorism.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Interesting...

Will it be too late?

 

[uafanataum]

Interesting...

I may not agree with the cause they chose to do this for ( I would have preferred the Republican Congress grew a spine over the tax plan than over this) but I love the fact that some of these guys are breaking away from the party line and standing up to Trump.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Well, Netflix died today...

 

[Bamaro]

They still haven't voted but security just cleared the room.

 

[92tide]

draining the swamp.

but hey, both sides do it, amitrite?

 

[crimsonaudio]

I'm betting Anonymous gets involved now...

 

[TideEngineer08]

If nothing is going to change then why the need to overturn it? These people are wholly without conscience.

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Like I said, this battle was lost last November. No amount of outcry was going to change today’s vote.

 

[AUDub]

Elections have consequences, people.

 

[92tide]

Elections have consequences, people.

but. her. emails.

 

[92tide]

 

[cbi1972]

The most punchable face in the world no longer belongs to Martin Shkreli.

 

[Bamaro]

Its official, net neutrality is now dead.