Net Neutrality: ISPs Can Throttle And Block Content So Long As They Admit It
10,747There's so much bollocks going on in the world that one can easily forget all the things we have to worry about. Net Neutrality is one such thing, and it recently came up again thanks to the FTC debunking one of the FCC's favorite claims.
The frauds at the FCC claimed net neutrality's spirit would still be upheld by an FTC primed to police throttling, blocking, and discrimination of content by service providers. The FTC's power was exaggerated.
It turns out ISPs can do a lot of what net neutrality guarded against, so long as they don't lie about it. If they admit somewhere upfront that they'll pull some crap, they can pull the crap.
Kind of takes some of the wind from the sails of Google Stadia and Apple Arcade.
Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/ftc-confirms-isps-can-block-and-throttle-as-long-as-they-disclose-it
https://gizmodo.com/the-head-of-the-ftc-just-debunked-the-fccs-favorite-exc-1833673468
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