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You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday August 29 2017, @05:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the sound-off dept.

canopic jug writes:

U.S. citizens and residents have one day left to comment on the FCC's plan to kill net neutrality. Final comments are due tomorrow Wednesday, August 30th, by end-of-day Eastern time (UTC -5).

Once the comment period closes, the FCC is supposed to review the feedback and use it as guidance to revise its proposal. However, it probably won't hurt to also contact your congressional representatives, given the antagonism of the FCC's current leadership towards both the public input and net neutrality itself.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:21PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday August 29 2017, @09:21PM (#561147)

    Some of these big ISPs agreed to keep net neutrality effectively in place as a condition in order to get their big mergers approved. So even if net neutrality disappears, they won't be able to do anything for years.

    Why not? Because of some agreements made with a prior administration? This one can nullify those agreements and let the ISPs do whatever they please, and now they've got their mergers so the industry is highly consolidated.

    State laws banning municipal broadband worsen that.

    Yep, and we can expect more such laws, not fewer.

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