FCC Plans Total Repeal Of Net Neutrality Rules

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

politico
MARGARET HARDING MCGILL
11/20/2017 07:17 PM EST
Updated 11/20/2017 07:58 PM EST

[excerpt]

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/20/net-neutrality-repeal-fcc-251824?lo=ap_f1

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency's Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate.

The commission will vote on the proposal in December, some seven months after it laid the groundwork for scuttling the rules that require internet service providers like Comcast or AT&T to treat web traffic equally.

President Donald Trump-appointed Pai’s plan would jettison rules that prohibit internet service providers from blocking or slowing web traffic or creating so-called paid internet fast lanes, the people familiar with the changes said.

[Bigun]

Good!  Let the marketplace work!

[driftdiver]

Good!  Let the marketplace work!

In this case the "marketplace" is a virtual monopoly.  The telecom companies like Verizon & AT&T are pushing for this and they will limit what you see on the internet.

It won't be good for consumers.

[driftdiver]

"some seven months after it laid the groundwork for scuttling the rules that require internet service providers like Comcast or AT&T to treat web traffic equally."

What that means is that content the company doesn't like can be sidelined.   Traffic to websites can be stopped.    Instead of limitless and stable platform on which to deliver content the internet will become a tightly controlled space where the telecoms control what you see and have connectivity too