Silly Alan doesn't even understand the basic facts of the situation.
Providers like Verizon had made agreements over the years with the FCC to treat all web traffic equally. In exchange for these agreements these companies were awarded public spectrum that was collectively owned by the citizens of the country.
Years later the same providers looking for new revenue streams in an industry that is no longer experiencing explosive growth drafted purposed FCC rules that allowed them to discriminate against whatever type of web traffic they liked unless of course the site owners in question paid them ransom. This would have fundamentally changed the way the Internet works.
The public caught wind of this and protested. The FCC commissioner withdrew the industry supported rules (that he was on record of supporting) and then the industry resubmitted the rules and instead of using terms like throttling and slowing called it "fast lanes." This didn't fool anybody and the purposed rules (supported by the FCC commissioner again) got more negative comments than any purposed rule in FCC history. The FCC passed final rules based on public comments that wouldn't allow these companies to fundamentally change the way that the Internet had worked since it went public like they wanted to.
Conservative groups cried like babies because they demanded Comcast be allowed to decide for them what they could look at on the internet.
Providers like Verizon had made agreements over the years with the FCC to treat all web traffic equally. In exchange for these agreements these companies were awarded public spectrum that was collectively owned by the citizens of the country.
Years later the same providers looking for new revenue streams in an industry that is no longer experiencing explosive growth drafted purposed FCC rules that allowed them to discriminate against whatever type of web traffic they liked unless of course the site owners in question paid them ransom. This would have fundamentally changed the way the Internet works.
The public caught wind of this and protested. The FCC commissioner withdrew the industry supported rules (that he was on record of supporting) and then the industry resubmitted the rules and instead of using terms like throttling and slowing called it "fast lanes." This didn't fool anybody and the purposed rules (supported by the FCC commissioner again) got more negative comments than any purposed rule in FCC history. The FCC passed final rules based on public comments that wouldn't allow these companies to fundamentally change the way that the Internet had worked since it went public like they wanted to.
Conservative groups cried like babies because they demanded Comcast be allowed to decide for them what they could look at on the internet.
