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I am, at best, ambivalent about the return of net neutrality. There are arguments against it that generally concern the potential to stifle innovation and for it that generally concern potential abuse by ISPs. I wasn't particularly concerned about the parade of horribles predicted by people who opposed its repeal by the Trump administration because ISPs were presumably smart enough to realize that if they engaged in such behavior, even a Republican administration was liable to reinstate it. But as the world didn't end when the Obama administration enacted net neutrality, I doubt it will end when the Biden administration brings it back. However, the see-saw of administrative regulations every time the party in control of the White House changes is making me a little sick. The problem is that Congress no longer does the job of legislating the way it should. If Congress enacted net neutrality by statute, the policy wouldn't change with every new administration. Partly, that's because the U.S. electorate has, more often than not in recent years, voted for divided government. Even when one party controls the White House and has majorities in both houses of Congress, those majorities are often very thin. Then, the party in control loses that majority in at least one house in the first off-year election. But it's worse than that because so few members of Congress are willing to compromise to enact bipartisan legislation. Because the overwhelming majority of House Districts are "safe," the Representatives elected from those districts tend to be more ideologically extreme, less willing to compromise, and/or worried that if they vote for compromise, they will lose their next primary to a more ideologically extreme challenger. You might wonder why it's taken the Biden administration this long to reinstate the net neutrality regulations. The answer is that the Administrative Procedures Act requires federal agencies like the FCC to jump through hoops like notice and comment periods before they can enact new regulations. That takes time. That's why it took the Trump Administration years to repeal the Obama administration regulations. But there can be a faster way to, in effect, repeal regulations. I think Luke is absolutely right about new net neutrality regulations facing court challenges. As it takes quite a while for such challenges to work their way through the Courts, I would be shocked if those challenges are resolved before the election in November. If Trump wins, his Department of Justice could "settle" the court challenges by entering into a consent decree that prevents those regulations from going into effect. We'll have a better idea if that's likely to happen in about 7 months.

Thanks for the News!

Hey, we don't have NN now, and it's "Price is 7.99..oh, wait, 9.99...now it's 11.99...how does 15.99 sound?" Yeah...

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

That recent jump in inflation and price of living sure is noticeable.

@tc1uscg65

2 ай бұрын

NN is not going to control prices. I wish people would understand that. Maybe the FCC is "controlling" the wrong side of the network.

@harryballsak1123

2 ай бұрын

and NN will stop this?

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

@@harryballsak1123 No, it won't do anything about it. But if people keep saying it enough, others will believe it's somehow attached to the market going up. Just a scare tactic to help get a garbage idea pushed through.

@evacody1249

2 ай бұрын

​@godzilla2k26 what needs to happen is people need to use MVNOs and also push local governments to let in more internet providers.

This is a positive. It always seemed shady that Comcast… a major ISP… who also owns Peacock… could give their own streaming service priority over others.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

This is a negative, they should be able to ensure fair access to all. Only allowing it to mega corporations that can afford it is a loss for all!

@timezones88

2 ай бұрын

@@godzilla2k26 I think you might have misunderstood my comment. Bringing back net neutrality is a *positive*. Like you said, we want fair access to all. My issue under the current rules is that Comcast could hypothetically make Peacock streams run better than Netflix (for example), thus causing a conflict of interest in what should be an equal platform for all streaming companies.

@harryballsak1123

2 ай бұрын

Why haven't they done in the last 7 years when they've had every opportunity to do it?

@64somt

2 ай бұрын

@@harryballsak1123 because they know that if they go too far, there would be pressure to reinstate stricter rules. Without that regulatory pressure, they will do whatever the hell they want.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

@@timezones88 But under net neutrality Netflix could run better than Peacock legally and there would be nothing consumers could do to stop it. Now as it is there are protections.

I really don’t understand the ramifications but I do remember when no one wanted net neutrality to go away because various companies could charge a lot more.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

Yea, that's the thing, net neutrality never affected the price in any way, for some reason people just thought that. If Verizon wants to charge you more they will. It had nothing to do with it.

@64somt

2 ай бұрын

It has more to do with their ability to control the "roads" that deliver content over the Internet. It would be similar to the owner of a road (ISP service) to allow their own web sites or streaming services to go on a nice smooth lane, while forcing competitors (other content providers) onto potholed dirt roads.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

Think of it like a road and the road is the ISP. Now on the road are cars as data traffic just zooming along. Now sometimes companies want to push other data out of the way for whatever reason so they just start sending semi trucks pushing out all the cars. This hurts everyone and currently ISPs can regulate that from happening. But Net Neutrality will ban them from doing this and give the power to massive corporations that can afford to run massive Semi trucks like that think Netflix, Alphabet, Apple will and you will be left sitting waiting.

Sounds good

What could possibly go wrong in the U.S. Government??? 😳🙄🤦‍♂️🤔

@nodak81

2 ай бұрын

The government can't sneeze without people in the YT comments whining about it and trying to make it into "Sneezegate".

People are doing now more than ever before on the internet compare to 2017. That means Wireless carriers can’t no longer do 480p video on mobile which will slow do the networks. People are streaming at home more than ever before.

@evacody1249

2 ай бұрын

Ok? if you Payless you should get less.

@evacody1249

2 ай бұрын

the reason you have not seen prices for the internet go up to 100 dollars is because there is no net neutrality.

Choirfully plays to choir 😮

Net Neutrality OMG

If "net neutrality" is re-imposed, I don't think it'll change thing one vis-à-vis ISPs. You could kind-of make a case for it when there was at best one provider of cable and DSL service in even the most urbanized areas. But now you've got AT&T, Verizon, and T-Moblie rolling out their 5G wireless service to more and more places, and T-Mobile is going in on fiber service, too. There's Starlink and Amazon's soon to roll out alternative, and even Dish is trying to get in the ISP game. With that open an ISP market, selective slowdowns for particular sites will not happen, period. And all this happened WITHOUT the "net neutrality" rules. Technology and the free market have zinged past the bureaucrats and control-freak politicians yet again! 😁

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

Actually that happened once Net Neutrality repealed.

@64somt

2 ай бұрын

No in many places there is no competition. Rural areas where there is not a "market" for providers do not get competition. The market needs to be balanced by regulation to keep Corporate Monopolists from becoming defacto governments.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

@@64somt And Net Neutrality makes it worse for those places. Get an ISP out there if you want more service, don't hurt consumers of minority communities.

This is awesome

What? How does it affect video games? That’s what I’m interested in.

@joekelley5121

2 ай бұрын

No affect. It won't force any price changes, and it won't cause any slowdowns in data transmission. This is more about keeping companies from prioritizing their data over another company's, or charging a company who uses their company's service to charge fees for transmission. I've never seen much in the way of this happening prior to it being passed the first time, nor much happen after it was repealed in '17. Gaming should be just fine regardless.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

Now gaming data is as important as movie streaming data. So ping is much higher.

@Geeky_Dad

2 ай бұрын

It can slow down your connection. So not only are you paying for streaming/live tv channels it also means that Steam/Playstation/Xbox Box and all the other groups have to spread money around and hope it doesn’t throttle your download speeds or speeds effecting online gaming

@evacody1249

2 ай бұрын

​@@joekelley5121that's not what would have happened.

@joekelley5121

2 ай бұрын

@@evacody1249 I've been following this since it's inception years ago, and this is how I understand it. If you have any information to the contrary, I'd be happy to take a look at it. 🙂

That's what I argue with people there's not really going to be a difference if we would ever see a difference there would be an immediate pushback and boycott of a internet provider probably bankrupting them. But yeah you won't see a difference either way.

@64somt

2 ай бұрын

Wrong. As these media monopolies gain more power and money they are able to force consumers into their services. Boycotts only work when there is competition. And political pushback becomes impossible. So regulation of their behavior is needed.

@davidframe1613

2 ай бұрын

@@64somt Right. We've already been down this path and everyone said last time there was going to be a big change and there wasn't.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

I don't know we got rid of Net Neutrality and a year later thanks to it's repeal the innovation we're able to occur that allowed Star Link to bring Internet to millions.

@user-vh8gs1sw1j

Ай бұрын

Except when NN was first implemented there very much was a noticeable improvement really quickly.

It's about time

The comments section is hilarious. Government bad. Big biseness doing whatever they want is all good. All this does is force big Internet companies to treat all traffic the same. Not paying for prioritizing traffic.

@joekelley5121

2 ай бұрын

People are overcomplicating what NN actually does lol. it to keep all the company's honest, that's it.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

​@@joekelley5121It Robs companies from the abilities to protect consumers.

@harryballsak1123

2 ай бұрын

Show me example of ISP doing this since they could have bene doing it for the last several years. NN best should be showing bad behavior that is CURRENTLY happening that NN will stop not hypothetical that MIGHT happen even though they haven't in the last 7 years.

@annperrone8864

2 ай бұрын

We have the worst❤feeling

@annperrone8864

2 ай бұрын

l Parking is nothing but a POS he needs to get out of the White House before November

so they cannot throttle?

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

It won't be throttling, it will be drowning. It's where more data is sent just to slow one thing down to let another go faster. This is something Net Neutrality forces in.

It means government butting in ... Look what they did to cable

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

Thousands of channels owned by the same five people that drown out competition. That's NN in practice.

A bigger issue is all the money going to ISPs currently and how it is being allocated. They way it is being done is going to result in fewer smaller ISPs and just a few corporate entities controlling all ISPs. This is a really big problem that has excerated in the past few years that literally no one is talking about. Net Neutrality is a big nothing burger that will only really be necessary with wireless carriers.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

Net Neutrality is the one ring to bind them.

@user-vh8gs1sw1j

Ай бұрын

Ya, that's not true at all.

You'll "choirfully" watch this?? Well....ok

In a nutshell, all you need to know is that if the government is for it, it almost never ends up well for the people. This will benefit whichever lobby group pays the politicians the most money...

@greyeaglemusic

2 ай бұрын

This is exactly the correct answer. The government doesn't do anything that disrupts the donations (bribes) from their corporate donors.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

This exactly!

This is a terrible idea. Just like telephone service the government will start charging taxes on how much throughput we use. This is a slippery slope that starts like it is innocent and good but will eventually yield to another taxable thing the government will charge us to use. Again - this is exactly what the government did when we used to have traditional telephones. For this of us that remember it was VERY costly to make phone calls - especially long distance. This is exactly what the government’ will start doing and charge folks who stream more things a hiigher usage tax. This is. NOT good for the general public.

@dondean517

2 ай бұрын

They already charge fees, and NN has nothing to do with government and every thing will telling ISP's that all traffic has to be treated equally.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

​@@dondean517 NN is a Government enforced and created program. And it has nothing to do with equally. It has to ignore what is happening.

@jackbennett4623

2 ай бұрын

@@dondean517 That is not correct - as an internet users for a Fiber or Copper connection are not charged for throughput today. This is intended to open the door to do just that. There is no carrier today that is charging for throughput today (in the us). We are being prayed upon to think we are being treated unfairly by your isp traffic when in fact they are not doing that at all for wired connections. This opens the door and adds regulation to tax that traffic. Just like anything else - it is worded to encourage we are being treated unfairly so that we get all worked up and pass a law that will tax us all for throughput just like long distance of years ago.

@evacody1249

2 ай бұрын

​@@dondean517😂🤣 and it should not. prices will have to go up and all the networks would have to be reworked for that to happen. I like what I pay.

@user-vh8gs1sw1j

Ай бұрын

@@evacody1249 None of that is true.

This Will Go Away Next Year

@PC4USE1

2 ай бұрын

God willing and the voters choose

@PSPortalShitpostingAntiSwitch

2 ай бұрын

Do something productive. You take the internet seriously kid 😂😂😂😂

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

Not before Net Neutrality will have raised everyone's price through the roof.

@user-vh8gs1sw1j

Ай бұрын

So, worse Internet good.

Luke if you believe that net neutrality is a good thing for cord cutting or anything else, then you are definitely showing which side of politics you support.

@ckirkyg

2 ай бұрын

Lol I'm a conservative but on this topic I'm for net neutrality. Isps have far too much power to create multi tiered internet and line their pockets without some governance. Net neutrality is a necessary thing and internet service providers should be considered a commodity... You need a broadband connection to the internet to live in today's society.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

​@@ckirkyg Net Neutrality protects ISPs from consumers with the force of the government, it's a liberals wet dream.

I have know idea what you said in this video. Word salad.

Net Neutrality yay/nay might come into play for all of the people using pirating movie apps.

This is garbage. The devil is in the details.

@PSPortalShitpostingAntiSwitch

2 ай бұрын

Do something productive instead. Internet will be dead 🤣

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

But details are what they don't want you to see.

I despise net neutrality 😢

@PSPortalShitpostingAntiSwitch

2 ай бұрын

Hahaha no more crying about the ps portal Nintendo switch fanboy 😂

@MrMartellSincere

2 ай бұрын

@@PSPortalShitpostingAntiSwitch I don't care that garbage as the pspportal

@PSPortalShitpostingAntiSwitch

2 ай бұрын

@MrMartellSincere hahaha looks like you can't afford it and we on the ps portal subreddit are having fun besides you being a Nintendo switch fanboy who will be snipped from Net neutrality 🤣

@MrMartellSincere

2 ай бұрын

@@PSPortalShitpostingAntiSwitch dude leave me alone, you weirdo 😡 you're harassing me

@PSPortalShitpostingAntiSwitch

2 ай бұрын

@@MrMartellSincere FCC is going to own you Nintendo switch fanboy 😂

No

It should be brought back, and as an advocate for viewers you should not be so namby pamby about it. Media is already too concentrated in the hands of a few mega-monopolist corporations, and that is BAD for consumers and society....The basic principle of net neutrality is that Internet service providers have to provide equal access to content producers in terms of speed and quality of delivery to users of the Internet. This means that all websites or streaming services have equal access to the "roads" that deliver content. While (as far as we know) ISPs have not been crippling competitors yet, this is only BECAUSE they don't want to be controlled by regulations. If government just lets them do whatever they want, the ISPs WILL slow down and cripple the ability of services to deliver a watchable signal. That is violating the basic spirit of the Internet and will give corporate monopolies even more power over us.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

No we shouldn't sell out rights over consumers to mega corporations. That's never worked out well in the past.

@Crazyfrankie56

2 ай бұрын

So far your comment is the best explaination of what Net Neutruality is and does and people that are complaining about NN and aganist it ARE FOR these disgusting ISP telecom corporation whores. People what you DON'T get is for example streaming services like peacock which is owned by NBC/Comcast/Xfinity and without NN Xfinity internet WILL ALWAYS favor their internet service and NOT throttled peacock because they own it but THEY CAN and WILL throttle other streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, Sling TV, etc because there is NO regulation on slowing down speeds to other services which is favortism. WE NEED Net Neturality because this principle rule will force ALL ISPs to stop throttling everything on the internet to favor their own interests. The only thing is I would love our current FCC to do is also put a BAN on data caps, a ban on data caps is needed because its a money hogging tatic ISPs do continuing to robbing us of more money if we use a lot of data they can charge us for every bit of data once you go over the cap and that needs to stop once and for all. People stop being in favor of these corporate disgusting telecom ISPs seriously

@evacody1249

2 ай бұрын

they do. where the slow down is coming is if you Payless you get less speed. what you are pushing will jack up the price of everyone to one tier. so that the people who work on the infrastructure can pay to upgrade to handle that kind of traffic.

@evacody1249

2 ай бұрын

​@@godzilla2k26 🤦‍♂️ want to know why cell phone plans have never gone over 100 dollars? Before you say but I know such and such who pays 120. is he or she paying of there phone? If so that's why. the reason the bills don't go over 100 is they all compete against each other for the best service. which means the less you pay the less you get with the service which is how it should be.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

@@evacody1249 Ever hear the saying a fool and their money are easily parted? Looking at Verizon right now, and they charge over 99 a month. Willingly choosing to pay more when you could pay less simply because you want attention is a you thing.

Cord cutting, right! If I do that I still have to get Internet service, some of kind of TV service, more $$, cell service, more than what I'm paying now with my service, home security, another $$ expense, all these are part of my cable company. Savings will be minimal at best. I love your site, but right now it's not helping me.

It turns out Net Neutrality just happends an resaon why I can't get the ISP I what pass my landlord.

This is terrible! This means ISP can't stop Alphabet or other large orgs from blocking services you pay for. NN is the worst thing imaginable.

@MickF04

3 ай бұрын

I was wondering if this was the direction NN might take.

@dondean517

2 ай бұрын

can you speak English? Those double negatives make it hard to understand whatever it is you are babbling about.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

@@dondean517 That is an interesting statement from one whom failed grammar class? How about not throwing stones if you live in a glass house?

@marcsonnenberg623

2 ай бұрын

@dondean517 You are so rude.

@jasonk5979

2 ай бұрын

This is not what this law says or does. Lol all it does is say that Comcast or other large Internet providers cannot degrade or charge more for someone like Netflix to deliver traffic to you.

Vote Republican.

@marcsonnenberg623

2 ай бұрын

HELL NO!

@Jbones72

2 ай бұрын

@@marcsonnenberg623 Great reply. 😂

@HDHQDIRECT

2 ай бұрын

​@@marcsonnenberg623FJB

@matth8768

2 ай бұрын

@@Jbones72 you should.. demorats are destroying the country and you are the reason.

@mgreg8134

2 ай бұрын

It was the republicans that took away net neutrality. You are only for net neutrality if you want to exercise more corporate control.

Sadly the right wing Supreme Court will do whatever helps the corporations.

@godzilla2k26

2 ай бұрын

You mean the people.

@evacody1249

2 ай бұрын

you mean the consumer. if you have an issues with your internet provider go to your local government and ask why they signed a piss poor deal to let there be only two providers.

@user-vh8gs1sw1j

Ай бұрын

@@godzilla2k26 No, the corporation. That's all they do.

If you love big government stepping on private enterprise, then you will love net neutrality. I want the government to get off these companies' backs. Since when does the government run things better than private companies?

@user-vh8gs1sw1j

Ай бұрын

LOL. Private companies do such a wishy washy half assed job in most cases. I don't want ISPs screwing the customer and providing inferior service due to their own greed.

Trump

@user-vh8gs1sw1j

Ай бұрын

in prison. 20 - 24.