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

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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:48PM (#570843)

    If you're referring to the ancient practice of ISPs oversubscribing their available bandwidth, that is a fraud issue with offering "unlimited* (*no, not really unlimited) Internet access; so-called Net Neutrality won't fix that, but prosecutions for fraud, closing down and selling off at auction the fraudulent company's assets, and threatening to do the same to other ISP fraudsters WILL fix the problem you're worried about.

    Incidentally, that's called "the rule of law", a thing which we're supposed to be using, but obviously aren't. Why are you paying taxes to fund those double-fraudsters who enable corporate fraud and then don't prosecute it?

    I haven't kept up to speed on the whiners and thieves at Netflix, but they were indeed not paying for traffic they were generating, and this was right as they kicked off the hue and cry over the net neutrality fraud. If Netflix is finally paying their data bills, great! So what's your problem if not ISP fraud which there are laws already on the books to deal with?