Tech companies colluding to deplatform conservatives is totally legitimate because it would be wrong for any FCC regulation against this....Open internet is a dog whistle for white supremacy!!!!
Posted on 01/08/2019 8:04:17 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
So-called experts predicted that removing this cumbersome Obama-era regulatory scheme — which granted the FCC virtually unchecked power over internet providers — would lead to the demise of the internet.
Repealing “net neutrality” regulations “would be the final pillow in (the internet’s) face,” said The New York Times. The ACLU said it “risks erosion of the biggest free-speech platform the world has ever known.” CNET declared that “net neutrality repeal means your internet may never be the same.” CNN labeled repeal the “end of the internet as we know it.”
A year later, none of the horror stories came true. In fact, average internet speeds climbed by roughly a third last year. The number of homes with access to fiber internet jumped 23% last year, according to the Fiber Broadband Association.
Oh, and “net neutrality” was a nonissue in the Democratic midterm campaigns. One party official said that Dems didn’t campaign on it because: “It’s not something that people bring up in their top list of concerns.”
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Comprehensive Net Neutrality would have been more effective. /s
One of the Democratic commissioners on the FCC claimed that repealing "net neutrality" would "green light to our nation's largest broadband providers to engage in anti-consumer practices, including blocking, slowing down traffic, and paid prioritization of online applications and services." [...]
A year later, none of the horror stories came true. In fact, average internet speeds climbed by roughly a third last year. The number of homes with access to fiber internet jumped 23% last year, according to the Fiber Broadband Association.
Liberalism always results in the exact opposite of it's stated intent. {it never fails}
Facts don’t matter. They’ll be BAAAAAA-AAAACK!
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There were many, many dumbasses on Free Republic that supported NN.
And they were supporting content providers over those who actually developed and built the Internet. They were supporting Google, FaceBook and all the commies, over AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and all the backbone providers and builders.
They just didn’t want these companies to make a profit off their hundreds of billions of dollars in investment. Investment that actually BUILT THE WHOLE FRIGGIN’ INTERNET.
And it’s because, deep down inside they are commies too.
Try selling that bill of goods to any unfortunate soul having to be a customer of Spectrum. Talk to anyone with Spectrum after Time Warner and see what they have to say about their service and speed.
Has Verizon done any such thing? Even if they did you could switch providers. Unless of course your local gov gave a monopoly franchise to Verizon. But then NN wasn’t going to address that issue.
NN was a Trojan horse to let the Fed take control and reimpose the Fairnes Doctrine on the right. It was never intended to address the issue you described.
NN was not about service and speed. You where never going to get better service and speed with NN. If you want that find a better provider.
Silicon Valley had a new startup in mind to police the Internet.
Internet Neutrality would have given them the weapon to turn it on.
Fake News is only a sample of what they had in mind.
“Net neutrality” was part of a commie larger plan... It never had anything to do with freedom - it was always about control.
Regulations not registration.
Because NN was all about censorship. Thank God once again that Hillary lost.
I’m good, I have gigabit fiber service with AT&T
A year later, none of the horror stories came true. In fact, average internet speeds climbed by roughly a third last year. The number of homes with access to fiber internet jumped 23% last year, according to the Fiber Broadband Association.
Try selling that bill of goods to any unfortunate soul having to be a customer of Spectrum. Talk to anyone with Spectrum after Time Warner and see what they have to say about their service and speed.
As far as I know, 0bamaNN did nothing to improve protections against providers simply selling performance promises they didn't keep; the claim was it was the only bulwark against deliberate throttling of nonpreferred content.
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