With the swearing in of Anna Gomez, the fifth Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner, the deadlock has been broken and, for the first time since Biden took office, the agency can finally take action to restore Title II authority and net neutrality. Today, FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announced the agency’s plans to file a Notice […]

Statement: the FCC should ignore the inevitable flood of telecom industry astroturf and move full steam ahead with restoring net neutrality.::undefined

  • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Fwiw, there was NN but it was during Obama. Trump, and his appointed Ajit Pai rolled it back.

    Under Obama, data caps was not directly a NN thing. It was more that ISPs couldn’t favor one traffic over another. So where this got played out was if you had T-Mobile, they couldn’t do a Netflix deal where their traffic wasn’t counted but your traffic to Hulu was.

    To be clear, I’m not in favor of data caps but want to make sure what NN is and what it isn’t.

    My personal fear is that it may be too late. With the consolidation of the market since Trump, we don’t have a ton of options. I’d really like to see FCC take on monopolies like Amazon and Google but probably not enough time between now and the election to make a difference.