FCC plan rejected request to ban what agency calls “positive” discrimination.
ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say
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FCC plan rejected request to ban what agency calls “positive” discrimination.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Remember when the cable companies tried shaking down Netflix?
This is net neutrality all over again.
Next they degrade service for anyone not paying for “positive discrimination“.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I believe it was mostly Verizon and Comcast, and they still do it to this day.
Cort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Read the article. This is about taking shared spectrum and walling off a portion of it for the services that pay extra.
Once that’s allowed, the portion left for net neutrality can be whittled away.