Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers | CNN Business
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The US government on Thursday banned internet service providers (ISPs) from meddling in the speeds their customers receive when browsing the web and downloading files, restoring tough rules rescinded during the Trump administration and setting the stage for a major legal battle with the broadband industry.
  • InternetUser2012@midwest.socialEnglish
    64·
    2 months ago

    Everyone bitching about Biden, yet he’s actually doing something besides slinging insults and eating adderall. I really hope he curb stomps the cheeto come election time.

  • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    How about regulating those fucking prices? I now pay the same price for 300Mbps that I used to pay for 1gbps

  • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    You know, the FCC is supposed to be experts on these kinds of things. And the fact that they can just flip-flop back and forth based on political whims makes me not trust their expertise at all. It makes them look really bad.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      They’re a regulatory body. If a Republican president really wanted to ban pasteurizing milk they could make the FDA do it

      Killing net neutrality was a political whim that went against expert opinion, undoing it isn’t. Much in the same way that a liberal court would almost certainly reinstate roe