Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers
Source: CNN Business
Published 12:10 PM EDT, Thu April 25, 2024
Washington CNN The US government on Thursday banned internet service providers (ISPs) from meddling in the speeds their customers receive when browsing the web and downloading files, restoring tough rules rescinded during the Trump administration and setting the stage for a major legal battle with the broadband industry.
The net neutrality regulations adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission prohibit providers such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from selectively speeding up, slowing down or blocking users internet traffic. They largely reflect rules passed by a prior FCC in 2015 and unwound in 2017.
The latest rules show how, with a 3-2 Democratic majority, the FCC is moving to reassert its authority over an industry that powers the modern digital economy, touching everything from education to health care and enabling advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence.
With Thursdays party-line vote, the FCC redefined internet service as similar to legacy telephone lines, a sweeping move that comes with greater regulatory power over the broadband industry. And for the first time, the FCC said it would step in to override state or local policies that conflict with the federal net neutrality rule.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/tech/net-neutrality-is-back/index.html
They just voted to approve about 10 minutes ago (was waiting for an updated article). CSPAN was running the meeting.
Voltaire2
(13,176 posts)keopeli
(3,525 posts)worth it. There will be plenty of technology designed to avoid detection, provide false data, and enable corrupt practices, all thanks to TSF and GQP. But, techies are clever and good detectives. Almost all of us want Net Neutrality, so we'll be working on the side of the angels. I don't think we'll ever recapture the robust opportunities we once had, but we'll make a lot of headway and open many doors that were closed during those dark years.
KS Toronado
(17,333 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,429 posts)good on them pox att comcas and others . evIl. totaly evIl.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,590 posts)But the Internet should be free or close to it as the design, prove out and concept were all accomplished using taxpayers money.
Traurigkeit
(244 posts)GB_RN
(2,384 posts)Then this is just playing ping-pong. The next time a Republican is in the White House, that persons FCC will simply reverse this rule, like Cantaloupe Caligulas did with the Obama administrations FCC rule.
So, we can count on the policy changing every four to eight years, give or take.
Traurigkeit
(244 posts)pecosbob
(7,543 posts)snot
(10,538 posts)A rare win for the people vs. big $$$.