The FCC’s net neutrality ruling is awesome because…

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By Mark Morford
on February 26, 2015 2:58 PM

Do you understand the basics of net neutrality, and the FCC’s (sort of astounding) ruling? What it actually means? Here’s how 14 of the major media outlets describe it. But more than that, this historic vote is awesome for a number of reasons, not the least of which is:

1 Republicans hate it

2 So does big telecom. You know when Verizon, Comcast, AT&T are all against something, it’s got to be good

3 You will not have to pay more for any ‘tiered’ service or BS bundled deals, which is another way of saying you won’t get screwed if you don’t

4 Obama did good

5 Obama did good, in the face of a sneering, leering, anti-everything white-male GOP congress that despises him and which supposedly controls everything right now and OMG how totally embarrassing for them, again, not a few days after Keystone XL and Obamacare’s continued, undeniable success…


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http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2015/02/26/the-fccs-net-neutrality-ruling-is-awesome-because/

[CANDO]

1. I'm confused...

I wasn't aware this disallows service providers from offering different speed services. Does this ruling do that? If so, that would be awesome! I thought this net neutrality ruling only forbid them from charging content providers tiered services.

[jeff47]

2. They can offer tiers of raw speed, but can't offer tiers like "Netflix Package".

They can charge more for 30Mbps than for 1Mbps. But they can't make you pay for the "Streaming Media" package to make Netflix work.

The author was apparently using "tiers" as in the cable TV packages, where you have to buy the right tier to get certain channels.

[Lancero]

3. Yeah, uh... They can still put out 'tiered' packages.

Just a different type.

The ruling prevents them from offering priority access to certian websites at differing tiers, it does nothing to prevent them from adding bandwidth limits.

It's a win, though it does leave a apparent and extremely exploitable loophole that the companies might decide to take advantage of which, if anything, will actually make things worse for the average consumer.