Earlier this year the FCC passed a new rule that would bring back Net Neutrality. This was followed by the FTC and FCC announcing a partnership to enforce Net Neutrality and regulate the Internet in April. For years, the argument has been about who has what control over the Internet to regulate it: the FTC […]
  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    For all those that say that net neutrality does nothing, and doesn’t matter, I ask this. If net neutrality never made a difference, then why is every ISP pouring a collective billions of dollars into stopping it? Why did they do the same thing about 5 years ago trying to kill it? Why did they do the same AGAIN 10 years ago trying to prevent it becoming law the first time?

    If you can’t see how net neutrality affects the internet, then you don’t understand. As a general rule of thumb, if you don’t understand something just look at what big money corporations are doing. You generally want the opposite of that. They are not here to be your friend. They are here to try to take every dollar they can from you.

    • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Sounds like people with voting. They love to tell you how it doesn’t matter, and yet republicans put tons of effort into making it more difficult.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Not every ISP! Where I live there’s an awesome ISP, Sonic, which is pro-NN, and last I heard only offers “best effort” service — which means there’s no throttling your link, no paid tiers; if the fiber and hardware can support 10Gbps symmetric, then that’s what you get.

      Sadly, they’re not the norm. And sadly, not offered at my address.