FCC sets April 25 vote to restore net neutrality rules repealed under Ajit Pai.
  • NatakuNox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can’t wait until my liberal city finishes our city owned isp. You can’t trust business to be in control of essential services

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Mentioning “liberal” here is a bit stupid. I’ve seen many conservative areas have unmetered gig fiber.

      Hell… where I live now is very conservative and I have 8gb uncapped.

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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          1 year ago

          No. I didn’t. Several of what I’m referencing is city owned. Oops don’t you look stupid now.

          Edit: Also you’re linking your politics to companies trustworthiness, as if either side is doing anything worth a damn against shitty companies. Speed is going to be a direct comparison of markets that would outline if those companies are shitty or not… No? In either case you’re being stupidly obtuse in linking these 2 topics.

          • Dark Arc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            It’s far more common for Democrat run municipalities to create municipal cable and for Republicans to outlaw (or propose outlawing) municipal cable state wide.

            It’s not even politicizing it’s a literal Republican talking point that the government should stay out of things and let free market competition sort these things out.

            The problem with that of course is that they’d rather take money from some regional monopolies than actually create a free market system with reasonable restrictions on it.

  • deranger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The NCTA has repeatedly stated over the years that net neutrality rules aren’t needed because ISPs already follow net neutrality principles. “Internet service providers have always delivered open, unrestricted Internet service. Consumers enjoy the web content and applications of their choosing without any blocking, throttling, or interference,” the group said.

    Lmao, really? The audacity of these cunts.

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Wow. Talk about professional gaslighting. Not enough people are aware that the Obama-era FTC enacted the policy because AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon were all caught throttling Netflix and prioritizing their own competing services.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        And tethering. Verizon was basically forced to stop blocking tethering apps by the FCC. My complaint was one of the ones which started the enforcement.