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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] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Did companies ever actually do anything after net neutrality went away? I still think it's a great thing to have but just genuinely curious if anything really happened cause I didn't notice much.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Did companies ever actually do anything after net neutrality went away? I still think it’s a great thing to have but just genuinely curious if anything really happened cause I didn’t notice much.

Well I doubt if companies would tell you "we are giving you a worse Internet experience so we can make more money", voluntarily.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/

Idk if this is actually a net neutrality issue because they're not an ISP but twitter absolutely added delays to links to websites that Musk doesn't like.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn't apply; X isn't an Internet Service Provider. They can screw over their users how they see fit.*

*Within bounds of law.

Edit: added clarification

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

It's plausible that some of the websites you like run faster because ISPs aren't throttling them, while throttling the competition.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that they mostly haven't, with a couple exceptions like a few ISPs offering to priorities to pings for gaming (as FeelThePower mentioned), throttle certain protocols (e.g. Torrenting), or refuse to carry traffic for certain sites (e.g. Kiwi Farms). All of this would be prevented under net neutrality.

As far as I'm aware though, an extremely overwhelmingly portion of traffic (like you'd have to do a lot of digging to find an example otherwise) already adheres to net neutrality since it's pretty pointless for a company to spend resources and goodwill to mess with traffic.

I don't think too much will change. It is nice in the sense it will prevent an ISP from doing things against specific sites, although like mentioned above most of the protections are theoretical ATM.

[–] Decide 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure if it counts, but after net neutrality went away, some phone companies made it so that watching some services didn't count against your data. I think it might have been TMobile, they allowed unlimited data for HBO or something similar.