FCC Kills Net Neutrality With New Rules

The new rules generally favor the interests of ISPs and may not be satisfactory to net neutrality proponents such as Netflix.

Net Neutrality

This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that regulators are proposing new rules on Internet traffic that would allow content companies to pay Internet service providers for special access to consumers, which will be available on “commercially reasonable” terms to all interested content providers.

According to Mother Jones, the FCC “has given up on finding a legal avenue to enforce equal access” because the new rules would allow broadband providers to give preferential treatment to some traffic.

So Google and Microsoft and Netflix and other large, well-capitalized incumbents will pay for speedy service.

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