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The FCC has today released a plan to completely roll back all net neutrality legislation under the guise of “Restoring internet freedom.”
Shortly following the election of Donald Trump and the installment of a new FCC Chairman, plans were outlined to reverse the 2015 order, with the commission’s panel of three voting two to one in favor of repeal this past May. Today’s news merely establishes a date for the death knell: an FCC meeting on December 14th. Advertisement – Continue Reading Below.
In principle, net neutrality is simple and self-evidently good for internet users.
As streaming video and increasingly bandwidth-hungry services eat up more and more of the available space, ISPs argue that net neutrality hamstrings their ability to explore solutions like paid-tiers for certain services.
The lack of net neutrality would allow companies like Comcast to charge extra for Netflix in an attempt to force viewers to its own, competing, inferior Xfinity streaming service.
So if net neutrality is so good, why is it consistently under attack? T’s the ever-present political gravity that large corporations like telecoms have through lobbying power and campaign donations, of course, but this power is particularly outsized in the FCC w commissioners tend to have compromising ties to big-time ISPs.