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FCC Will Reveal Vote to Repeal Net Neutrality This Week

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-end-of-the-net-as-we-know-it dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @09:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @09:02PM (#600345)

    The Protestant work ethic was popular in the 1950s and 1960s because the great majority of white heterosexual males didn't have to work too hard to find a job paying 3 times minimum wage or better. And that was when the inflation-adjusted value of minimum wage was equivalent to $10 per hour or better today. So imagine if someone made that offer to a high school graduate: you work for us for thirty years at $60,000 per year or so, we pay good benefits, and you retire with a pension. Most people would take that in a heartbeat.

    That's not what the average American has today. Tens of millions of people working for far less than $60,000 per year, terrible benefits, no pension. Many people not even making $15 an hour. Health care costs astronomically higher.

    It's uninformed or intentionally dishonest to compare then to now and blame the problem on workers.