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I expect Ryan will stall n/n to death, no vote
again, Repugs don't GAF about what Americans want, but only about what the oligarchy pays for.
Net neutrality is officially repealed. Here’s what happens next.
Net neutrality can still be saved, but the window of opportunity just got smaller.
Basically, very little has changed since last month, when Congress’s last-ditch attempt to cancel the repeal under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) made headlines.
The measure passed in the Senate, but it’s extremely unlikely to pass in the House, where canceling the repeal is deeply unpopular with the majority of Republicans despite the fact that
over 80 percent of Americans support net neutrality.
In fact, since Congress only has 60 days to review the law (starting from April 23, 2018),
it’s possible the House could just stall and refuse to vote on the CRA at all until the time limit expires.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/11/17448680/fight-to-save-net-neutrality-repealed-what-next
I expect Ryan will stall n/n to death, no vote
again, Repugs don't GAF about what Americans want, but only about what the oligarchy pays for.
Bill to save net neutrality is 46 votes short in US House
172 Democrats signed pe ion to force vote, but they need 218 signatures.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...t-in-us-house/
Repugs gonna let net neutrality die, and oligarchy's gonna screw us all out of $Bs more in internet speeds, volume caps, premium services, on-demand viewing, etc.
Do you FCC supporters really think ATT, Verizon, etc want to kill n/n for any other reason than to fleece us more?
(Catholic asshole Kavanaugh is against net neutrality)
Trump's FCC wants to force consumers to pay FCC $225 to review complaints against telecoms
On Thursday, Pai and his Republican-majority FCC will vote to do away with reviewing the free “informal” complaint system.
The FCC accepts two types of complaints: informal ones and formal ones.
It costs nothing to file an informal complaint and
$225 to file a formal one;
given that, consumers almost always file informal complaints.
Besides the filing fee, formal complaints kick off a court-like proceeding in which the parties appear before the FCC and file numerous do ents to address legal issues.
It isn't an easy process for consumers to go through.
Pai wants to argue that this will “streamline” the process.
Because the “process” he and his Party’s overlords are involved in has to do with silencing the public while solidifying a plutocratic power structure.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ainst-telecoms
duopoly pricing power:
https://arstechnica.com/information-...dsl-customers/"[I]n recent years, the nation's two largest telco ISPs, AT&T and Verizon, have eliminated their cheaper rate tiers for low and mid-speed Internet access, except at the very slowest levels," the NDIA wrote. "Each company now charges essentially identical monthly prices—$63-$65 a month after first-year discounts have ended—for home wireline broadband connections at almost any speed up to 100/100 Mbps fiber service."
The exceptions are for Verizon DSL service with download speeds of 768kbps or less and for AT&T service with download speeds from 768kbps to 5Mbps. For those extremely slow services, "the two companies charge $10 a month less," or $50 a month, the NDIA wrote.
Tens of millions of people in the AT&T and Verizon service territories can only buy slow DSL Internet from the companies, yet they often have to pay the same price as fiber customers who get some of the fastest broadband speeds in the US.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1KO2OFThe Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to vacate a 2016 appeals court ruling that had upheld Obama era “net neutrality” rules that barred internet service providers from blocking, throttling or prioritizing content.
net neutrality, It's Road Kill
FCC admits it was never actually hacked
The FCC has come clean on the fact that a purported hack of its comment system last year never actually took place, after a report from its inspector general found a lack of evidence supporting the idea.
Chairman Ajit Pai
blamed the former chief information officer and the Obama administration
for providing “inaccurate information about this incident to me, my office, Congress, and the American people.”
the FCC has continuously upheld the idea that it was under attack and has never publicly walked it back.
At any time in the last year, especially after Bray had departed,
it would have been, if not simple, then at least more simple than maintaining its complex act of knowledgelessness,
to say that the CIO had made an error and there was no attack. Nothing like that has escaped the mouth of Chairman Pai.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/fc...tually-hacked/
70 State-Level Bills That Would Protect Consumer Privacy
In 2018 alone, the telecom lobby has killed or stalled a whole host of legislation that would prevent ISPs from selling your data.
ISP privacy laws create a formidable alliance between tech companies and telecom corporations: “Every internet company is on the same side in privacy bills. They don’t want them. It’ll hurt their bottom line.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...sts-on-discord
The unstoppable oligarchy buys, and gets, whatever the it wants, and it wants citizens raped for profit in every orifice
Here's a ing racist brownie going after redskins
Court Rejects Ajit Pai's Bid To Reduce Broadband Subsidies For Tribal Areas
been busy slowly-but-surely gutting programs designed to help bring broadband to the nation's less affluent areas.
One of Pai's core policies has been a relentless attack on the FCC's Lifeline program.
Lifeline was
created under the Reagan administration and
expanded under the George W. Bush administration, and
provides low-income households with a measly $9.25 per month subsidy that low-income homes can use
to help pay a tiny fraction of their wireless, phone, or broadband bills (enrolled participants have to chose one).
The FCC under former FCC boss Tom Wheeler had voted to expand the service to cover broadband connections, something Pai (ever a champion to the poor) voted down.
this program had broad, bipartisan support and was never deemed even remotely controversial. But ever since Trump and Pai stumbled into town, the current FCC has slowly waged war on the program.
a U.S. Appeals court issued a stay order (pdf) freezing Pai's efforts to kill Tribal broadband subsidies, the court arguing that Tribal organizations and smaller wireless carriers are likely to win their court challenge against the recent FCC changes.
Pai had taken aim at the program's use in tribal areas under purely ideological grounds
(ie: government can never do good
and should be gutted from all oversight of natural monopolies),
insisting his agency was purely concerned about potential fraud in the program.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...al-areas.shtml
More evidence why the oligarchy is stuffing the Federal judiciary with their politicians in robes.
My internet speeds have been terrific. Obama tried to ruin the internet in addition to the United States.
My internet speeds jumped by a factor of ten during the obama admin. they're not offering anything faster than gigabit.
Grandecom has upped my speed from 50 Mb/s to 100+, unannounced and same price.
I guess trying to dissuade cord cutters (I "cord cut" my TV over cable)
People Still Don't Like Their Cable Companies, CR's Latest Telecom Survey Finds
Larger cable providers once again take a beating for perceived value—even when it comes to bundled plans
If there's one big takeaway from this year's survey, it's that
it pays to haggle
—and most of our survey respondents do. Seventy percent said they tried to negotiate a better deal at some point, and
the overwhelming majority—
80 percent—were able to get one or more perks, including a new or extended promotional rate and outright price cuts.
Top-rated EPB, a municipal broadband service run as a public utility in Chattanooga, Tenn., was one of the few bright spots for internet service.
It was the only company to receive a top mark for value. It also got top marks for speed and reliability.
Google Fiber was a close second in the ratings, the only other company to get a favorable mark for value.
https://www.consumerreports.org/phon...elecom-survey/
speed isn't the only thing that matters.
throttling, bundling and monopoly pricing apparently cut no ice with Trumpalos like Chris.
Not until ISPs start blocking or throttling sites like InfoWars. He'll still find a way to blame Obama though.
Plus anecdotes are as good as anybody else's...
'Complete Joke': Democrats Ripped for Totally Failing to Grill FCC Chair Ajit Pai Over Net Neutrality Cyberattack Lies
"There were many opportunities to talk about how the FCC misled the press and mistreated reporters. That should have been the story of this hearing, but they didn't make Pai sweat nearly enough."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...t-pai-over-net
This is why America is ed and un able, with the feckless Dems being at passively complicit by letting the oligarchy rape America, and offering no serious resistance to the Repugs.
Pelosi? Schumer?GMAFB
Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
The old team is back together, filing a brief that asksthe U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reverse the reversal. Together,
the AGs represent states totaling 165 million people — more than half of the U.S. population.
The list includes a number of populous states, including California, Illinois, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/21/twenty-two-states-ask-appeals-court-to-bring-back-net-neutrality/
Twenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutralityTwenty-two states ask appeals court to bring back net neutrality
Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Calif. wildfire
Verizon Wireless' throttling of a fire department that uses its data services has been submitted as evidence in a lawsuit that seeks to reinstate federal net neutrality rules.
"County Fire has experienced throttling by its ISP, Verizon," Santa Clara County Fire Chief Anthony Bowden wrote in a declaration. "This throttling has had a significant impact on our ability to provide emergency services. Verizon imposed these limitations despite being informed that throttling was actively impeding County Fire's ability to provide crisis-response and essential emergency services."
Bowden's declaration was submitted in an addendum to a brief filed by 22 state attorneys general, the District of Columbia, Santa Clara County, Santa Clara County Central Fire Protection District, and the California Public Utilities Commission. The government agencies are seeking to overturn the recent repeal of net neutrality rules in a lawsuit they filed against the Federal Communications Commission in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...alif-wildfire/
get em Santa Clara FD
Comcast/Charter lobby asks FTC to preempt state broadband regulations
As FTC reexamines enforcement, broadband lobby asks for hands-off approach.
broadband lobby groups are now asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to avoid imposing stricter regulations on the industry.
the FTC can only punish ISPs if they make net neutrality promises and then fail to keep them—
ISPs could avoid FTC punishment simply by not making net neutrality promises.
cable industry lobby group NCTA told the FTC that
"there is plainly no reasonable basis in today's marketplace for singling out ISPs for unique regulatory burdens."
The FTC should let "market forces" prevent bad behavior
and avoid specific net neutrality or privacy regulation for the broadband industry, the lobby group said.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/comcastcharter-lobby-asks-ftc-to-preempt-state-broadband-regulations/
top rule: if ain't illegal and is profitable, BigCorp will "bad behavior" the customer to the max, with impunity.
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