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Everything that is exceptionally terrible about paying for cable television, but for the whole ass internet.

One more step into the techbro neo-feud hellscape.

Don't worry. Fox News, OAN, and NewsMax will still be free to access. Can't let the lies be too hard to get to.

It looks like the Internet can’t route around capitalism.

Awful.

Absolute disaster

This is a BFD.

And don’t forget the cost of everything on the internet will be going up too. There’s no way with net neutrality dead that Comcast, et. al. aren’t going to every major “edge provider” & doing the “those are some nice customers, be a shame if they couldn’t get to you” even more than they do now.

It sadly worked for Comcast's re-introduction of capped data plans to home internet. They rolled it out incrementally enough and early enough that few enough people cared enough to protest. Now, years later, the cap has only gone up by 200 gigs a month and people use more data than ever.

All this has been ping-ponging and in flux since the Comcast sandvine investigation. What a fucked up 17 years...

If the GOP won't make broadband providers utilities, then it is time to end all prohibitions on community-owned broadband. Unless you'd rather be beholden to Comcast the rest of your life.

I understand. Another way to fleece the consumers.

Not only do they not understand it, they’ll be the first ones shrieking endlessly about it when it happens. They’re addicted to ignorance.

Time to cut all cables!

I guess we just forgo a bunch of stuff. Probably a "net" benefit!

I think my provider is reporting when I'm streaming to the phone spammers. Seems when I start watching the phone rings.

100% There should be a nationwide movement to hold public forums and meet ups for researched news and social gathering. We lived thousands of years without it, they've made us feel like we need it. American business is like heroin business, they want you to get addicted then you pay.

Musk will already be hiring the people he needs to filter out 'undesirable material' (CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Wikipedia, Bluesky, etc) from Starlink internet services. The next step is for FoxNet and MurdochNet and MuskNet to start offering cheaper packages with their selected content only.

It's terrible, just terrible.

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I'm also worried about ISPs being able to throttle or block websites and services that their CEOs don't like or are in a rivalry with. Or charge extra to get to them. They probably wouldn't even be transparent about it, you just wouldn't be able to get to certain news sites or channels...

This is true, but a vast number of things are not services in the ways that are easily differentiable by an ISP at scale. What they will try to bundle are media services (peacock, Disney+, etc) and probably large social media properties. Distributed systems (we’re using one) are harder.

I think you are right - I'm reading more about it now and feeling very powerless:(

It was restored by Biden. Then taken to court. After Trump's Chevron case, FCC was ruled to no longer have jurisdiction. Unless Congress passes bills to restore net neutrality.

Scary stuff.

God I hate this country Death to the United States

Well guys back to slow mail and roof antennas.

It sounds terrible for all of us.

we are going backwards as a society in every possible way

You make an excellent case for your position. And i envy your overly thin skin.

Awful

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People voted for Trump, I don't think they have a clue what this means.

Live TV is already kinda like that (again) - witnessed by me trying to not pay extra for a "live" Disney account last night... uh even tho we already had a disney+ acct and a Hulu acct and a espn+ acct it cost another 60 bucks to get the game on ESPN for 3 hours It sucks and I don't like it!

Follow the money.

Shortly before NN was enacted, Comcast intentionally leveraged congested backbone traffic from Netflix to screw up user experience and end a payment dispute between the two. As a result, much of the Chicago area (and more) had very slow or no Netflix a few times a week. Not looking forward to it.

Thank goodness American businesses would never think of screwing over their customers for larger profits.

Right, it’s not like being an engaged member of society or accessing vital resources has largely moved to online-only access in the past 20 years. Worse comes to worst, get your news from local print media which I believe is definitely still going strong everywhere in America!

Seriously? You can't even get a job without the internet anymore. It should have been classified as a public utility twenty years ago.

welp. g'bye internet.

Another move-for-musk&mafia. #InformationWar #DataCommons #NetNeutrality #FreedomofSpeech #ConstitutionalProtections #Education #STEM Someone make a peoples’ internet, stat. Someone make a peoples’ market, asap.

Our city voted for municipal broadband a few years ago. It's been pretty wonderful. Comcast closed a tech support call center here in retaliation. The space was taken over by Broadcom.

This is a huge deal. Think you're paying a for streaming now. Just wait.

We had net neutrality rules for all of two years, between 2014 and 2016. The Infrastructure Act funded rural broadband and has almost entirely closed that gap. It’s not ending, it just not restarting. This isn’t worth our despair.

The internet, but $hitty like 'a la carte' cable TV was.

If America trashes net neutrality and lurches into open fascism then people will host the internet infra elsewhere where it is properly protected.

"Is Net Neutrality a good idea" is a completely separate question from "did Congress ever enact Net Neutrality" (answer: no).

The fall of Chevron just means that "it's a series of tubes" people will be writing laws about things they don't understand.

Shit we are totally going to be going back to web portals like old school AOL aren't we

Someone will need to implement this. If you're a person who could or would consider it, please just don't. Thanks in advance, All of us.

An appeals court’s ruling sets a troubling precedent for consumer protections in every industry ...

Emboldened by the downfall of Chevron deference, the Sixth Circuit struck down the FCC’s net neutrality rules ...

But muh capitalism!

I’d be curious to know how well state laws, eg California’s, will limit the ability of bad actors to abuse the system. Sort of like how they can single-handedly affect the decisions of car manufacturers to build EVs.

ISPs can assign services into classes and charge for quality of streaming delivery. will quickly lead to monopolies by those who can pay and stagnation because startup customer experience will suck. great though if you want to control and shape thought & culture

Don't we have a circuit split with previous rulings on this? Not that I am counting on the Supreme Court to be helpful at all on this

Is this something that Congress can fix? Not that they will but is that a possibility?

I'm as leery of Japanese exceptionalism as I am of the American version, but in this case..... yeah. Yeah.

Nationalize it

Goddamn it.

Libraries will become more important than ever. Keeping them open and free with the internet and information is going to be so important.

Sounds like a late stage capitalist's wet dream. Which is why it will happen. Otherwise how would billionaires become trillionaires?

Fewer reasons to live every day.

Sigh son of a bitch 🙄

2025 feels like a pain. #NetNuetrality

These people are so short sighted and greedy they are going to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. So many electronic devices are devised based on internet connectivity, which will become out of reach for average US consumers.

Did literally nothing.

They're making stepping away more and more attractive

What happens with data intensive Generative AI?

Well fuck

Oh it’s really bad dude.

Man I dunno if my heart is ready for the next four years.

How will that even affect European countries, anyway?

Again, may I recommend @internetsociety.bsky.social , who are trying hard to educate jurists and legislators around the world about how stuff really works. It’s a huge job, and though the Internet Society has some stable funding it doesn’t have anything like the resources needed. Join or donate!

She's a Demon-Haunted world, this one.

I know. It really kills me how they believe they know more than anyone about everything.

Was.... was that a Little House on the Prairie reference?

Note - this is NOT just a USA problem.

Conservatives are the enemy of the American people, and it is wild how little people in this country understand this.

Funny how the Constitutional literalists are all about following the Constitution to the word until the freedoms it promises bite into their profits

MAGA just wants cheap eggs

Enshittification at hyper speed

And then the corporations will raise their prices to cover their legal costs.

Refuse to use the internet if that happens. People will fight back, they can only do what you let them do. The reason this is happening is because a lazy uninformed populace vote against their best interest. People think the government is in control and that's not how it's supposed to work.

Overreach when for the people who paid for it. Capitalism and profit for those who own it. I hate it here.

Great, so the fuckers can now de facto censor content they don't like by throttling it unless that content pays a fee. "That's a nice website you've got there... would be a shame if something were to... slow it down a lot..."