A federal appeals court has agreed to halt the reinstatement of net neutrality rules until August 5th, while the court considers whether more permanent action is justified.
It’s the latest setback in a long back and forth on net neutrality — the principle that internet service providers (ISPs) should not be able to block or throttle internet traffic in a discriminatory manner.
The current FCC, which has three Democratic and two Republican commissioners, voted in April to bring back net neutrality. The 3–2 vote was divided along party lines.
Broadband providers have since challenged the FCC’s action, which is potentially more vulnerable after the Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down Chevron deference — a legal doctrine that instructed courts to defer to an agency’s expert decisions except in a very narrow range of circumstances.
Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matt Schettenhelm said in a report prior to the court’s ruling that he doesn’t expect the FCC to prevail in court, in large part due to the demise of Chevron.
I’m more of a free market guy than most of y’all, but the internet should clearly be treated as a utility.
Thats what we were pushing for back in 2015
Since you brought it up, why are you a free market person?
18 hours later: Crickets
They aren’t going to answer this question. Nobody reveals their stupidity on purpose.
Besides, we already know what all the Capitalist propaganda says. We know what the answer would be.
Yeah random guy on the internet, justify yourself
That’s not what I asked them to do. I disagree with free markets, but that doesn’t mean I’m resistant to learning from other people’s perspectives.
I didn’t mean you were, that just sounded strangely judgemental for a question asked to a random person on the internet who you probably never saw before and will most likely ignore it
I get it, but maybe they won’t. They definitely will ignore my question if I never ask!
It’s always the same reasons: indoctrination, lack of critical thinking, pseudo-science, etc.
Telecos hate the idea of free market on the internet when they are providing the service.
From their perspective, they are entitled to that cut… Why should Google get it all?
Maybe because we’ve been paying them a tax since the early 2000’s to provide fiber broadband to the majority of Americans, which they have pocketed and refused to actually build any infrastructure to support this?
Critical thinking has been spotted!
Telcos are the worst of corporate parasites, at least telsa built a car and SpaceX built a rocket, and
Boeing can build a planeI feel like everyone within developed countries should offer everyone a bare minimum free internet access. Like, even if it’s as slow as dialup, at least it would still be access.
Then, if you want high speed internet, which I’m sure most people would want, then you pay monthly for that of course.
But this whole thing they’re doing now, where they can throttle or even block sites at their own discretion for paying customers, well that’s just totally back-asswards…