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Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the brace-for-impact dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1937

Net neutrality advocates are planning two days of protest in Washington DC this month as they fight off plans to defang regulations meant to protect an open internet.

A coalition of activists, consumer groups and writers are calling on supporters to attend the next meeting of the Federal Communications Commission on 26 September in DC. The next day, the protest will move to Capitol Hill, where people will meet legislators to express their concerns about an FCC proposal to rewrite the rules governing the internet.

The FCC has received 22 million comments on "Restoring Internet Freedom", the regulator's proposal to dismantle net neutrality rules put in place in 2015. Opponents argue the rule changes, proposed by the FCC's Republican chairman Ajit Pai, will pave the way for a tiered internet where internet service providers (ISPs) will be free to pick and choose winners online by giving higher speeds to those they favor, or those willing or able to pay more.

The regulator has yet to process the comments, and is reviewing its proposals before a vote expected later this year.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/15/washington-dc-net-neutrality-protests-restoring-internet-freedom

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JNCF on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:47PM (1 child)

    by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:47PM (#570649) Journal

    I've never, ever seen you "free market" cunts scream about regulation when it helps to shut down municipal broadband. Not once. Municipal broadband is the very definition of that which you cling to, yet it's *crickets* from you whenever it comes under attack.

    "'Free market' cunts" is an awfully large umbrella; at least in this context, I definitely fall under it (see my OpenLibernet post above). Here I am on SN, over two years ago, arguing that municipal governments should be given the means to defend their own internet infrastructures. [soylentnews.org] Now you've seen it.

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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:52PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:52PM (#570654) Journal

    Err, over three years ago. Time is weird.