The FCC will reveal vote to repeal net neutrality this week
The new rules are expected to be announced on Wednesday, whilst most Americans are distracted by getting home to loved ones for Thanksgiving.
This will then be followed by a vote on 10 December, which would see the 2015 rules designed to protect the internet being torn down.
[...] The important point, as we've said before, is that once the genie is out of the bottle, getting it back in is almost impossible and for our readers outside the US, don't think this doesn't affect you - everything that passes through US servers will be affected in some way and will knock on to you.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PiMuNu on Wednesday November 22 2017, @06:04PM
Sorry, fair point. And on a similar note Napoleon and Louis XIV were both aggressors. My point is, Britain stayed pretty aloof but bankrolled the other power's war, as did US in WWII. Until Pearl Harbour, obviously. You are right to correct me on the "moral imperative" but the strategic argument I think is the same.