The Future of Net Neutrality

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E2LA here. As you know, today the FCC (in the US) voted 3-2 to end Title II Net Neutrality laws. I hear and see too many people freaking out about how it's going to end the internet..... but this change may not happen, nor will it happen overnight. I present to you a few articles to read for your consideration before you start freaking out:

1. https://gizmodo.com/what-actually-happe ... 1820813374
2. http://fortune.com/2017/05/18/net-neutrality-fcc-kills/
3. https://www.inverse.com/article/38776-n ... s-internet
4.http://www.businessinsider.com/fcc-to-v ... al-2017-12

The above four articles illustrate that even with today's vote, the fight over Net Neutrality is far from over.

Some takeaways from what I read:
1. Normal internet users like you and me will lose out with the repeal of the net neutrality rules. It won't happen overnight, but you can expect broadband providers to start limiting what you can access on the internet or charging you more to get to the sites and services you regularly use.
2. Despite the vote today, the rules aren't a sure thing; the FCC can't change the rules because it wants to, and that the courts will likely look at this case for a while, and FCC commissioner Ajit Pai figures to face an uphill battle to get judges to agree with his new rules.
3. All of the FCC's previous net neutrality efforts have been met in court in the past, and it is likely that one or both sides will head to the Appeals Court for the District of Columbia to file a lawsuit to block the change.

So, this battle is far from over, and could go on for a while, everyone. I hope you can read the articles a bit, but please keep the discussion civil.

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Situation is different on the other side of the pond.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-5265_en.htm

Regardless of what happens in the short term, NN gonna be restored when russian puppet regime gets thrown out of the white house.

To be honest I can partly understand why big internet companies want to break up Net Neutrality to earn extra money. We are just in the lobby of the big Iot revolution and in the future not only people want to buy stuff and or services with Iot services but cities and even governments too. Once it starts to rise dramatically it will bring a dramatic rising in the volume of the worldwide internet traffic too. Internet providers will be under the pressure to spend lots of money to upgrade their services to keeping up with the rising internet traffic while they want to earn more money than what they spend for their internet infrastructure.

Is this just a USA thing or will it affect other countries like I'm in the UK and so far we get no problems cos I use KODI all the time plus I download alot from the pirate bay which isnt even blocked by my ISP.

To be quite honest, this net neutrality business has not done anything but bad. If you think about it, back before the Title II regulations came to be in 2015, we were still using the internet like nothing happened. No throttling has occurred (It was still illegal before the regulation), no fast lanes and slow lanes, none of it. It was a debate back then as well. The only thing that changed (and I hate being political about it) is that censorship has occurred and it was from the big internet corporations like Google, Facebook. Because they were censoring conservative voices. I can't say for certain Trump has probably talked to each CEO of each cable company. All it did was that with Title II, the FTC was no longer in patrolling investigations of customer complaints. It basically gave the internet corporations censorship abilities because the people can no longer complain to the FTC of what's going on. This was all based on my experience and a conservative point of view. From what I'm seeing is that we are still going to use the internet like it is even before the regulations. Hearing about throttling, choosing favorites, adding additional fees for using certain services is a bit absurd. Hey I could be wrong and maybe it will be the new norm but who knows.

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