Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality."

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president.

The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization.

“Consumers have made clear to us they do not want their broadband provider cutting sweetheart deals, with fast lanes for some services and slow lanes for others,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at today’s meeting.

  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    8 months ago

    Right but if everyone sends 16 petabtyes a month the internet would collapse. Data caps do absolutely work to reduce bandwidth on a network scale. Bandwidth is measured in mbps. Limit the Mb and you reduce the necessary bandwidth.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      English
      51·
      8 months ago

      but if everyone sent 16PB a month they would have some bomb ass connections as well, and i would sure hope as hell that it would hold up.

      I dont even want to calculate how fast a connection would need to be for that to be a datacap.

    • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      For context 16 petabytes per month is about(slightly more than) 6 gigabytes per second. Also internet was designed during times when computers were super expensive and 100% utilization was norm.

    • scoobfordEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      You already buy “up to” a certain speed. When the network is congested, you just deal with it.

      Trying to make people budget their internet usage is stupid and pointless.