FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see

Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by spystath on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:07PM (#15749405)

I can't decide if titling it "Restoring Internet Freedom" is a perverse sense of humour or just blatant effrontery.

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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by sjm-lbm on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:31PM (#15749632)

Certainly not humor. I've met with my republican legislators (well, met with staffers at one, called others) - their official position really is that Net Neutrality is BigGovernment(tm) and they need to get rid of it to protect the little guy.

The problem is that it is working. It drives me up a wall to try to explain this to nontechnical conservatives. They actually think that this is a good thing that will increase the amount of liberty they have in their lives.

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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by mirimir on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:34PM (#15749680)

Freedom for ISPs, right? And for enterprises to buy preferential connectivity. For the rest of us, not so much :(

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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by ams6110 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:37PM (#15749714)

You will be free to accept the ISPs offered plan(s), or not.

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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by mirimir on Thursday November 23, 2017 @11:16AM (#15765956)

That'd be cool, if there were competition. Which there isn't, in most of the US.

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