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FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Get a business line, if you plan on staying at your current residence for longer than 3 years. Usually you can get it for a few dollars more than a residential line, and it'll not have a data cap, plus they're going to have a 99.99% SLA for uptime...and you're not going to be getting some script reader if you have issues.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

None of my local ISPs have data caps on regular home internet plans. Y'all just need better ISPs.

100Mb symmetrical fiber is about $40-50 and Gigabit is about $80/mo from ours

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is big "stop being poor" energy.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

^^ This is big "irrelevant comment" energy.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds lovely.

You are aware that most of us in the US don't actually have options like that, correct? I'd dump my ISP in a heartbeat if those plans were available to me.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

I'm quite aware of the ISP situation in the USA and it has been worse at each home I've lived in before. I've had shitty AT&T connections at 4 homes with no other options there. Things have gotten much better in the last 5 years overall. Fiber is rolling out all across the country from local utilities like phone and power. Look for your local options, and avoid the big companies.