Save The Internet Act
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There is hope for the return of Net Neutrality!
Democrats in the U.S. Congress plan to unveil legislation on Wednesday to reinstate “net neutrality” rules that were repealed by the Trump administration in December 2017, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
I don’t know of any specific changes since rules were changed, but imo major providers cannot be trusted to protect the public.
Watch for the time to contact your members of congress with your opinion.
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Thx.
You mean after like ten years of this shit congress is finally going to do its job and LEGISLATE something?
Yeah I’ll believe it when I see it. The bill will fail, it’ll be used to club republicans, then when a dem gets back in office they’ll reinstate it by fiat as the Obama admin did and we’ll continue to go round and round like this ad nauseam
@uninflammable This does sound like it’s pointless, but if the bill keeps being reinstated, repealed, etc – at least the corporations can’t slowly heat up the water while adapt to the norms. Every time it’s reinstated, they have to set the thermostats back to 0 and start over. The bottom line, it resets the greed each time.
I do agree though that the partisanship in the house is sickening. They have a clear outline of their jobs but are too busy whining about one another, they never actually do what they’re elected to do.
@capguncowboy yeah sorry but I’ve never bought the net neutrality bogeyman story, especially after the Netflix debacle when it came out it was their third party ITP Cogent that had been throttling their connections, not Comcast, conveniently when they started hitting up Comcast for free infrastructure upgrades. Everybody’s worried about the ebil big corporations on the anti-NN side but for some reason nobody questions the motives of the other massive corporations like Google and Netflix on the pro side because they give a bunch of lip service to equality or whatever
The entire concept of governing isp’s like phone companies, i.e. common carriers doesn’t make any sense to me in the first place because of the wild differences between the infrastructure needs of phone and internet providers, but more importantly the hypothetical discriminatory practices people freak out about like isp’s censoring random websites is already regulated under the FTC and has been forever so there’s no point to begin with.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/call/?link_id=0&can_id=fa83c0d63a2455c94eee664651a27b9e&source=email-bad-bills-bad-bills&email_referrer=email_503706&email_subject=bad-bills-bad-bills
I find it, um, “curious,” that you believe that corporations cannot be trusted to protect the public, but that government can.
Just sayin’… that’s all.
@simssj
Theoretically, the government is the public, but…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@simssj
Complex world out there.
@simssj who should we trust to regulate the ISP market? The corporations running it, or a government bureaucracy staffed with a revolving door of executives from those same corporations?
@uninflammable Hypothetically? We ought to have an internet totally free from regulation, and wide effin’ open to free and unencumbered competition.
The problem we currently have is that the corporations know how to game the government and create (virtual) monopolies where there is no competition; there is seldom more than one “viable” option in most (non-urban) places. So if I’m stuck with a single provider, I’m stuck with their policies and can’t really vote with my dollars on a provider that is more aligned with my needs and interests.
But on the trust issue: I know what a corporation wants: Money, money, money. And money.
What does Government (usually) want? Power; control; the ability to dictate the most minor, trivial, and personal aspects of my (and your) life.
In the “trust game” I’ll take corporations 10 times out of 10, because I know what they are after.
PS: Amazon; Netflix; Google; Microsoft; Apple; US Government… Which of these has authority to legally kill, incarcerate, or persecute?
I’ll shut up now.
Carriers should not read the messages they carry. The technology is called Deep Packet Inspection.
A BILL (Congressman Engel)
To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit broadband internet access service providers from engaging in deep packet inspection.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Statesof America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Deep Packet Privacy Protection Act of 2018”.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DEEP PACKET INSPECTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title VII of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“SEC. 722. PROHIBITION ON DEEP PACKET INSPECTION. 115TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION
“(a) IN GENERAL.—A broadband internet access service provider may not engage in deep packet inspection, except in conducting a reasonable network management practice.
“(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a broadband internet access service provider from engaging in deep packet inspection as required by law, including for purposes of criminal law enforcement, cybersecurity, or fraud prevention.