Did companies ever actually do anything after net neutrality went away? I still think it's a great thing to have but just genuinely curious if anything really happened cause I didn't notice much.
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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My understanding is that they mostly haven't, with a couple exceptions like a few ISPs offering to priorities to pings for gaming (as FeelThePower mentioned), throttle certain protocols (e.g. Torrenting), or refuse to carry traffic for certain sites (e.g. Kiwi Farms). All of this would be prevented under net neutrality.
As far as I'm aware though, an extremely overwhelmingly portion of traffic (like you'd have to do a lot of digging to find an example otherwise) already adheres to net neutrality since it's pretty pointless for a company to spend resources and goodwill to mess with traffic.
I don't think too much will change. It is nice in the sense it will prevent an ISP from doing things against specific sites, although like mentioned above most of the protections are theoretical ATM.
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Can someone tldr what's net neutrality?
tldr: net neutrality means everything that uses an internet connection is treated equally. EX: cox communications offers a "fast lane" for gamers on their networks, but if all connections were treated neutrally, everything would be as fast as possible by default without the need for an upgraded service plan.
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Internet infrastructure companies have to treat all traffic equally.
For example, without net neutrality, Comcast could elect to throttle any streaming services that they didn’t own / co-own. So great speeds for Peacock and Hulu, but was a Max, Netflix, AppleTV, etc all get throttled unless you pay up.
Can someone tldr what’s net neutrality?
Simplified, your ISP cannot favor one company over another when delivering their website content to your computer. All data must be delivered equally.
Sounds like a big win for the consumers.
Wait, Net Neutrality was removed?
Yeah, and the media is owned by comcast and AT&T.
Did you know that AT&T bought time warner?
And Disney bought Fox.
So of course none of the media outlet covered that happening...because they're owned by the people who benefit from net neutrality being gone.
Sticky olde' Ajit creamPai likes to get his special treatment from the telecom companies that paid bribes to get him into his position. I just hope that his replacement is as good as Tom Wheeler was.
One of the many things fucked during the Trump years. Easy to have lost it in all that noise.
Why do you think paid subscriptions with a tier I've been a thing, it was one of the first things Donald Trump did