[At-Large] FCC TO SCRAP NET NEUTRALITY

Javier Rua javrua at gmail.com
Tue Dec 5 00:09:50 UTC 2017


I have an article on this coming out in a local business focused internet newspaper soon.  I’ll share when it comes out.




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El dic. 4, 2017, a la(s) 7:36 p. m., Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com> escribió:

> It really doesn't but  an interesting topic outside of the narrow scope of ICANN
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>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 6:31 PM, John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>> I agree this isn't a great move but what relation does this have to ICANN?
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>> On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Kris Seeburn wrote:
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>>> 
>>> Trump’s FCC Chair, Ajit Pai, just released his plan to kill net neutrality.
>>> 
>>> Pai’s plan scraps the legal requirements underpinning Title II regulations and opens the door to internet slow lanes and monopolies over broadband networks.1
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>>> And Pai has scheduled a December 14 vote—just three weeks from now—to approve his plan.
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>>> Pai has said that he believes that Big Cable should regulate itself when it comes to the free and open internet.
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>>> But even with net neutrality rules in place, companies such as Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast have broken the regulations over and over and over. In just two years, the FCC has received more than 40,000 net neutrality complaints from consumers.2
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>>> If Title II protections are allowed to be overturned, we will go back to the days when Big Cable throttled websites based on what internet companies paid, blocked traffic to sites that competed with their own services, and redirected sites without user permission—all with impunity.
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>>> Kris
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>> Regards,
>> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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