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FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president.

The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization.

"Consumers have made clear to us they do not want their broadband provider cutting sweetheart deals, with fast lanes for some services and slow lanes for others," FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at today's meeting.

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 7 months ago (30 children)

They do, however, allow data caps.

These new rules are not the same as the old ones and there's definitely a handful of things that the big companies wanted that they indeed got.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 7 months ago (26 children)

I fucking hate data caps - no reason they should exist in this day and age.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I have a 186GB 5G monthly limit on my 10€ mobile subscription, then (supposedly) it drops to 4G speed. I'm ok with those kind of limits because they are not there to milk people.

[–] Supermariofan67 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think it should be allowed to set limited data cap OR limited/guaranteed speed, but never both

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