F.C.C. Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/technology/fcc-net-neutrality-open-internet.html?partner=IFTTT

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  2. In this week Biden and or his appointments/appointees have…

    1. Restarted/restored net neutrality

    2. Implemented rules so passengers cannot get dicked by airlines (well at least when it comes to refunds, I’m sure there are still many)

    3. Made more investment in clean energy

    4. Made it so employers cannot screw “mid-level” salaried management

    5. Removed unnecessary non-compete clauses.

    Idk… Sounds like Biden is trying to make people lives better.

  4. Why did I have the sudden impulse to @ Ajit Pai with a video of me doing the Harlem Shake?

  11. Did they keep the problematic rule that could allow fast lanes for gaming?

  12. Remember: ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

    If Trump were in charge right now, this wouldn’t be happening. If Trump were in charge, Palestine would be glass by now. If Trump were in charge, hundreds of thousands more people would’ve died from COVID.

    Even if you don’t think Biden has been perfect, he’s making progress in quite a lot of areas where the Republicans would want to just set us back 200 years.

  13. Oh no, however will the internet possibly survive such a blow that the conservatives warned us about/s

  14. Wow, didn’t expect this! Some of this stuff is coming out of the blue (x2). 

  17. And what have republicans done to help us? Jack shit. This is why voting matters and both parties are not the same. I voted for Biden and he’s actually doing his job and not trying to steal as much as he can on the way out the door.

  18. Cool. Meaningless until codified in law but cool for now. Until the board flips again and they nullify the order again.

  21. cool, are they going to restore the rule that ISPs have to get your permission before selling your browsing data (that republicans repealed in 2017 and pretty much nobody noticed)?

  22. This is obviously good.

    But I do have a question: when the FCC was preparing to remove net neutrality, almost everything I read and all of the discourse about it said that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to ever restore it, and that it would likely require an act of Congress to even attempt to do so. But from what I’m reading about this, it seems that it was relatively simple and just needed the right amount of votes on the FCC. Was the discourse surrounding it, or at least the discourse I read, incorrect (perhaps even being purposefully dramatic?), or is there something else I may be missing?

  23. It’s almost like democratic leadership is good for people

  24. Next time an internet neckbeard is rationalizing MAGA, remind them of Ajit Pai and tell them what Biden did today.

  26. If Trump gets re-elected, he will reverse this. So, you know, friggin’ vote.

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