Statement: the FCC should ignore the inevitable flood of telecom industry astroturf and move full steam ahead with restoring net neutrality.::undefined
Statement: the FCC should ignore the inevitable flood of telecom industry astroturf and move full steam ahead with restoring net neutrality.
Submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
Nash42@programming.dev 8 months ago
Can the FCC be influenced by donations from private interests? Is there any sway congress can impose upon the FCC?
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This really isn’t the right question. The better question is why Congress hasn’t codified net neutrality into law, which is what the FCC has been asking for at least a decade if not longer.
In some ways, it’s better that the FCC can do this without Congress. But it leaves it open to the next republican president to just do away with it.
Given some states barring porn, it actually be interesting to see if other states like California start codifying NN into law, forcing companies to adopt a patchwork of laws. Typically the loss of money motivates them to lobby Congress to do the right thing.
Nash42@programming.dev 8 months ago
Wonderful input, thank you. As far as I’m aware, because we haven’t had NN, the downside we’ve seen is ISPs counting data usage for streaming, e.g., Netflix toward a user’s monthly data usage, whereas they wouldn’t count data usage count if the user was streaming from the ISP’s own streaming service.
This leads me to believe Netflix, Disney, and the swath of companies who provide streaming services, but not their own ISP, may be, indeed, a proponent of NN.
I can see how, with the combination of ISPs losing money due to implementing that patchwork of “Internet laws”, and other non-ISP-providing streaming service companies losing money to a lack of NN, we may see NN codified into law. But, to get there, things have to get worse first, no?