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Blue_Adept

(6,397 posts)
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 12:30 PM Nov 2017

The FCC has unveiled its plan to repeal its net neutrality rules

Federal regulators unveiled a plan Tuesday that would give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and online services their customers can see and use.

The move sets the stage for a crucial vote next month at the Federal Communications Commission that could reshape the entire digital ecosystem. The agency’s Republican chairman, Ajit Pai, has made undoing the government's net neutrality rules one of his top priorities, and Tuesday's move hands a win to broadband companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.

Pai is taking aim at regulations that were approved just two years ago under a Democratic presidency and that sought to make sure all Internet content, whether from big or small companies, would be treated equally by Internet providers.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/21/the-fcc-has-unveiled-its-plan-to-rollback-its-net-neutrality-rules

Been nice knowing y'all.

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The FCC has unveiled its plan to repeal its net neutrality rules (Original Post) Blue_Adept Nov 2017 OP
Internet is gone, so is the VA, in case anybody cares. Eliot Rosewater Nov 2017 #1
I know what you're feeling. Blue_Adept Nov 2017 #2
It's a fucking madhouse... NurseJackie Nov 2017 #4
Well welcome to dictatorship America. Initech Nov 2017 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Internet is gone, so is the VA, in case anybody cares.
Tue Nov 21, 2017, 12:47 PM
Nov 2017

nope, had to self delete my comments about how we got here

Rightwingers who attack our leaders like Al is welcome, unconditional support of the D party, not so much.

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