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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:23PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:23PM (#571133)

    Thanks for that post!

    I just read it. It is a theoretical paper with a couple of econ equations. Not much in the way of networking in it. But its a start. Which is more than can be said for the whole of the telecom industry in the past decade.

  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Saturday September 23 2017, @05:41PM

    by JNCF (4317) on Saturday September 23 2017, @05:41PM (#572137) Journal

    It is a theoretical paper with a couple of econ equations. Not much in the way of networking in it.

    From my fading memory, that seems correct. There are meshnet papers that are more thorough (like CJDNS, which is a real system), but I don't know of any that propose incentives like the OpenLibernet paper does. I haven't searched for any in a while.

    But its a start. Which is more than can be said for the whole of the telecom industry in the past decade.

    I like how everybody interpreted your original post as being enthusiastic about monolithic corporations developing their own proprietary balkanized networks, as if those wretched contraptions could successfully compete with open standards in the long run.