FCC lost right to Net neutrality rules in court

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https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/03/net-neutrality-protections-again-lost-as-federal-court-overrules-the-fcc/

..This means that internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile carriers will again be free to accept payments from large websites and services to prioritize their traffic over the rest of the internet …

Net neutrality means that internet service providers had to treat all websites and Internet services equally. They couldn’t take payment from some sites, speeding up their traffic, while slowing down traffic to the rest of the web. They also couldn’t take money from one service to block traffic to a rival one…

https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/25a0002p-06.pdf

* Very bad news to any Internet/cellular user in the US.
* Wonder who were the ISPs, Cellular providers opposed to Net Naturality

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The FCC was not ‘heavy handed’ in applying Net Neutrality rules. Americans need and deserve Net Neutrality.

Failure to enforce anti-monopoly laws for decades has resulted in the rapid enshittification of the internet and tech, to the detriment of individual users across the world. Why does Microsoft continue to force ‘features’ that users don’t want, while making it harder and harder to avoid them? They have monopolistic control, which is not balanced by individual users being able to easily choose something else.

ISPs are monopolies. They have divided up the US and do not compete with each other, concentrating, instead, on extracting dollars from their captive users. The FCC was doing something to level the playing field for us. If they cannot implement net neutrality, Congress needs to pass legislation making it the law of the land, along with meaningful privacy laws.

May I recommend supporting EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). I, for one, do not want ISPs acting as gatekeepers, profiting from making special deals with a few companies and inhibiting new competition, innovation, and expression. If the courts don’t support internet freedoms, then we need legislative reform.

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https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/03/net-neutrality-protections-again-lost-as-federal-court-overrules-the-fcc/

 

It’s notable that many tech giants who would well afford to pay for priority treatment came out against it, and in favor of net neutrality. The list of good guys in this battle includes Apple, Amazon, Dropbox, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Reddit, Snap, and Spotify.

If this group of large players was against it, I wonder who was in favor?

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ISPs, because they make the money from prioritizing data.
Big tech are against because they may have to pay and they don’t make enough as it is…

cheers, Paul

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