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The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th (www.eff.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services

The FCC will meet on October 19th to vote on proposing Title II reclassification that would support accompanying net neutrality protections

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What would you all say if I started an ISP that offered $3 a month for service only to a handful of websites? That would be prohibited under Net Neutrality, yet I could see something like that being useful to plenty of people, like my grandparents who use the Internet only to send emails and check their local news.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't like it. If someone only wanted Facebook but then considered fact checking something they read, they wouldn't be able to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And any link that came up, like to a patient portal from your doctor, might not be supported

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Websites arent just one domain, they use all different kinds of CDN's and external content. If you only whitelist certain domains then virtually all sites you whitelist would be broken anyways.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

How would such a thing be financially viable? Once the ability to connect to any website exists, the physical cost to access everything else is essential nothing.