Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Other Tech Giants Fight for Net Neutrality Again

[Mr. Sparkle]

Source: softpedia.com

Tech giants are teaming up to once more fight for net neutrality, which makes us believe we're back to 2014 or 2015.

The Internet Association, which is a lobby group representing companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, and many others, met with Ajit Pai, the new FCC chairman, to tell him net neutrality rules are great just the way they are.

This meeting comes as rumors regarding FCC's plans for net neutrality intensified over the past few weeks, indicating that they're planning to roll back rules protecting net neutrality. Of course, that's not exactly a big surprise since Ajit Pai had expressed an opposition to net neutrality since he was only just a member of the FCC, back during the Obama administration.

"The internet industry is uniform in its belief that net neutrality preserves the consumer experience, competition, and innovation online. In other words, existing net neutrality rules should be enforced and kept intact," the meeting summary reads, explaining the position the tech industry has on the matter.
"New rules are no good"

The latest news on FCC's plans for net neutrality indicate an intention to eliminate the Commission's control over ISPs in order to make neutrality voluntary. The base idea is that there's so much competition among ISPs that they'll just respect the rules on their own volition. In reality, that can't be farther from the truth in most areas across the United States where many citizens have only one option when it comes to choosing an ISP.

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[PoliticAverse]

1. And we know that giant corporations just love to "preserve" "competition" and "innovation". nt

[groundloop]

2. In most areas of the country ISPs are a monopoly, or at most have one competitor

Those companies are in no way, shape, or form interested in what's best for the consumer. If they can make a few bucks from selling my browsing habits or medical history they'll do it, to hell with my wishes.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, NetFlix are not ISPs.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Actually Google is an ISP in parts of the US. n/t

[PoliticAverse]

4. That's the problem, and it doesn't have anything to do with net neutrality.

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The "last mile monopoly" means you are going to keep paying too much for Internet that is too slow.

[cstanleytech]

7. Well just look at how the CEO for ATT threatened the FCC

http://www.business2community.com/tech-gadgets/att-threatens-to-stop-building-fiber-network-because-of-net-neutrality-fcc-fires-back-01069119

"AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson has halted production of his company’s new fiber network. Following President Barack Obama’s push to reclassify internet access as a public utility, Stephenson says the company will not move forward into an uncertain future.

The thought process is that AT&T will not create a network when it does not know “under what rules those investments will be governed.” Basically, if AT&T can’t have the unregulated ability to charge what it wants, and set its system speeds, it doesn’t want to provide a new service to its customers."



The FCC did nothing about that and they should have gone after him for it.

[cstanleytech]

6. Only one in my neighborhood unless you count satellite internet and I dont as the service

sucks ass and its expensive as hell or atleast it was when I checked into it as an option about 4 years ago.

[JCanete]

8. thank god they're still on this side of the battle. nt

[gfwzig]

9. Such an odd development since the 3 companies listed have a bad record of selling user data