FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2 party-line vote

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• Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good news. But let’s not forget with this one in particular, this battle will probably not end in our lifetimes. We let down our guard, and support for net neutrality starts to waver, it’ll get attacked again. Maybe in a different way.

  This one takes a lot of vigilance and determination to keep. It won’t stay permanently “won” any time soon, despite the breadth of the coalition of sorts that supports it. There’s just too much money that could be made on the other side, creates a lot of pressure.

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  • GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It will only last until the next Republican administration. Elections have consequences. Vote.

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    • TwoGems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If another Republican administration happens, it will be the last you ever see, because they will seize power as the fascist they are. So yes, never stop voting. We simply can’t allow it to happen anymore.

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  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Always assume nothing in politics and law is “permanent”. You never know when you’re gonna get backstabbed, even if you like the people in power.

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  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And even then… roe v wade

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  • BarterClub@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Needs to be a law much harder that way.

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• Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Name and shame the 2 shitheads

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  • ZeroCool@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well it was a party-line vote and Nathan Simington and Brendan Carr are the republican FCC commissioners.

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They wiggle after party line

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  • UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Feel free to email them and ask them to justify voting to destroy internet freedom.

    Nathan.simington@fcc.gov Brendan.carr@fcc.gov

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    • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Done

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Brendan Carr and Nathan Simington

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• reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  let’s zoom out a bit: this thing where every incoming administration changes the rules that the prior administration established is probably worse than either of the rules being permanent. Don’t get me wrong, please. This is, as Richard Lewis put in in Robin Hood: Men In Tights, “a good change”. But it seems like the rules are constantly changing and that can’t be good for people who are actually making a good faith effort to follow them. Doubly so because this article says that ISPs are going to sue to stop this rule change, and that while courts of the past have ruled that the rules say that this rule can be a rule they might rule that this rule cannot, by the rules, be a rule, overturning their previous ruling on the rules surrounding the rules.

  But don’t worry, if republicans ever win again they’ll just make “republicans win” the rule. That will make things very simple.

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  • gothicdecadence@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not only is it one party reverting the changes the other made, but it’s almost always along party lines. Drives me crazy as no real change will happen so long as Dem are playing defense forever

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    • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That… Is the point of conservatism right? No progress.

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  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    this thing where every incoming administration changes the rules that the prior administration established is probably worse than either of the rules being permanent.

    I mean… Republicans’ rule is objectively bad. Confusion over the rule is not good, but also prevents the bad rule. Maybe I’m weird, but “not bad” seems better than “bad,” right?

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• MrMusAddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  T-Mobile users; be aware that T-Mobile has prepared for this and are trying to automatically transition grandfathered accounts with unlimited everything into their new plans.

  I’m not 100% sure if the coverage of the new plans are technically worse, but they’re definitely more expensive. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the new plans had contact language to do a rug pull in the future.

  You need to opt out of the transition.

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  • PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    While this is good information to share this has nothing to do with the net neutrality stuff.

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    • MrMusAddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I might be mistaken then, but doesn’t part of Net Neutrality mean that telecommunication companies can’t throttle unlimited plans?

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do you opt out?

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    • MrMusAddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I used the phone app and started a chat. Here’s what I asked, and their response:

      i.imgur.com/dcbBes4.png

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s T-Mobile have to do with net neutrality?

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    • StopSpazzing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are an ISP, you know what net neutrality applies to?

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  The Federal Communications Commission today voted to move ahead with a plan that would restore net neutrality rules and common-carrier regulation of Internet service providers.

  In a 3-2 party-line vote, the FCC approved Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), which seeks public comment on the broadband regulation plan.

  The proposal would reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service, a designation that allows the FCC to regulate ISPs under the common-carrier provisions in Title II of the Communications Act.

  The plan is essentially the same as what the FCC did in 2015 when it used Title II to prohibit fixed and mobile Internet providers from blocking or throttling traffic or giving priority to Web services in exchange for payment.

  The Obama-era net neutrality rules were eliminated during Trump’s presidency when then-Chairman Ajit Pai led a repeal that reclassified broadband as an information service, returning it to the less strict regulatory regime of Title I.

  Title II regulation isn’t just about net neutrality, Rosenworcel said, arguing that the reclassification will give the FCC more authority to protect national security on broadband networks.

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  The original article contains 501 words, the summary contains 181 words. Saved 64%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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• 7112@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just… yay!

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yay all the way!

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