The wording of this bill and the exceptions are so vague, I don't know how the FCC plans to enforce any aspects of it. This is just political grandstanding. The Democrats are trying to show constituents that they did something to promote net neutrality, but they're still bowing down to the corporate lobbyists. I loathe politics.
Vague and with no bite. All this does is make politicians look good. To my understanding ISPs are still allowed to throttle bittorrent ("Excessive amount of connections"), etc. We'll probably see encrypted content exempted ( Tor, HTTPS ) from net neutrality measures as a means to 'combat piracy' ( read 'invade privacy' )
There will be no network neutrality until the majority of internet traffic is anonymized ( My spellchecker doesn't have that word ). Solution: Join an anonymizing network and contribute resources. When the majority of legal and illegal internet traffic is sent through untraceable networks, we may have a sudden realization that 'oh, maybe we should remove regulations before we can't catch dangerous criminals because legitimate consumers decided to protect themselves from unreasonable invasion of their privacy'
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
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It just seems like everything we supposedly voted for is dead in the wind, as far as any meaningful Telecom reform goes.
There will be no network neutrality until the majority of internet traffic is anonymized ( My spellchecker doesn't have that word ). Solution: Join an anonymizing network and contribute resources. When the majority of legal and illegal internet traffic is sent through untraceable networks, we may have a sudden realization that 'oh, maybe we should remove regulations before we can't catch dangerous criminals because legitimate consumers decided to protect themselves from unreasonable invasion of their privacy'