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posted by janrinok on Thursday November 16 2017, @07:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-long,-interwebs,-it-was-nice-knowing-you dept.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission next month is planning a vote to kill Obama-era rules demanding fair treatment of web traffic and may decide to vacate the regulations altogether, according to people familiar with the plans.

The move would reignite a years-long debate that has seen Republicans and broadband providers seeking to eliminate the rules, while Democrats and technology companies support them. The regulations passed in 2015 bar broadband providers such as AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. from interfering with web traffic sent by Google, Facebook Inc. and others.

[...] Pai plans to seek a vote in December, said two people who asked not to be identified because the matter hasn't been made public. As the head of a Republican majority, he is likely to win a vote on whatever he proposes.

[...] The agency declined to comment on the timing of a vote. "We don't have anything to report at this point," said Tina Pelkey, a spokeswoman for the commission.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-15/killing-net-neutrality-rules-is-said-readied-for-december-vote


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by meustrus on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:32PM (2 children)

    by meustrus (4961) on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:32PM (#597915)

    Except that in this case, the supermarket set the price of bread at $5/loaf, the legislature paid the supermarket billions for infrastructure buildout to ensure there would be enough flour for everybody. Demand for bread rose, but the supermarket doesn't want to use the government's money to actually build out their infrastructure like they were supposed to, so instead they want to charge the baker a carrying fee for the privilege of putting their bread on the shelf [qz.com].

    Meanwhile, bread is now $5/loaf, plus $1/loaf in "regulatory recovery" fees, $1/loaf in "infrstructure buildout" fees, and $1/loaf in "we assume you're not paying attention to the line items on your bill" fees.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:47PM (#597921)

    It looks like the problem in this scenario is your government; stupid things happen when an organization ("government") gets to demand income by decree, and thereby spend other people's hard-earned resources.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @07:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @07:07PM (#598325)

    It looks like the problem in this scenario is your government; stupid things happen when an organization ("government") gets to demand income by decree, and thereby spend other people's hard-earned resources.