They abolished it a while back and I haven't heard anything about it since. Is it like the supreme court where corporations can do whatever they want but they act relatively normally to prevent outrage

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    3 years ago

    the net neutrality debate was allowed to become so prominent because it was a battle between different interests within capital. ISPs of course want to charge companies a toll for transmitting their data. Some of those companies, including Netflix and Google, who would have been charged, of course don't want that, and so utilized front groups like the EFF to tell spooky stories about a future of limited service bundles.

    Ultimately as long as the infrastructure of the internet is privately owned, talk about making it more "neutral" is a feint. It should be a public utility, and AWS should be seized by force by the people. In my onion.

  • RowPin [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Comrade Joseph R(ed) Biden released an executive order last week to urge the FCC to bring net neutrality back.

  • Melon [she/her,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    It was a huge deal on Reddit because Reddit, as a link aggregator platform, had the most to lose from that kind of partitioning of the web. There are plenty of corporate interests in keeping the internet a big, dumb pipe for everyone (including from some of the most valued corporations in the world like Google). The stakes were thus somewhat overblown. ISPs are still vampires, but it was enough of a threat to internet businesses for nothing much to happen.

    The larger danger is throttling, because ISPs do that when they can. For now, Biden has restored Net Neutrality, so the issue may hopefully be laid to rest.

  • Dirt_Mill [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Was at a mobile carrier and saw a sign on a table that shared their “commitment to net neutrality” :jokerfied: