Internet Neutrality laws are gone, ISPs can now block websites.

[Mouse droidz 21]

for forgets sake give me my sky broadband back i don't want verizon to block anything

[Ad Bot]

[otto-san]

i honestly thought they could already do this

[Funkadelic]

i honestly thought they could already do this

same lol

[Decepticon]

i honestly thought they could already do this

[Dodger]

i honestly thought they could already do this

They use to be able to until 2010 when Obama's new head of the FCC decided to promote net neutrality without a solid justification (legally and practically). It's largely political cause Obama made a campaign promise about it I think.

Also anyone who thinks this will lead to a totalitarian control over the internet is conjuring up the slipperiest slope I've ever seen.

[blueblur121]

Now it's a game of which provider has blocked the least stuff.

[Choi]

Now it's a game of which provider has blocked the least stuff.

It's not like you'll see every website the internet has

[Harm94]

They use to be able to until 2010 when Obama's new head of the FCC decided to promote net neutrality without a solid justification (legally and practically). It's largely political cause Obama made a campaign promise about it I think.

Also anyone who thinks this will lead to a totalitarian control over the internet is conjuring up the slipperiest slope I've ever seen.

Good luck trying to get a new provider when they are the only one in the area.

[Dodger]

Good luck trying to get a new provider when they are the only one in the area.

In my area I have Cox and Verizon FiOS, among with a couple others. This might not be true everywhere, but I'm very certain that the FCC will enforce some anti-trust in these areas in the near future.

The FCC still holds regulatory authority rules over net neutrality still, they just have to handle cases on a case by case basis now

[RedGajin]

i guess netflix could be ruined by this
how will i stream my stories wtf oboma :((((

[Funkadelic]

Good luck trying to get a new provider when they are the only one in the area.

...Enough with the alarmist conspiracy bullstuff, alright. lol

[Choi]

i guess netflix could be ruined by this
how will i stream my stories wtf oboma :((((

that will be a bad move by the isp

[Harm94]

...Enough with the alarmist conspiracy bullstuff, alright. lol

hardly conspiracies, just more what-ifs. History has its ugly way of repeating itself. Without people who observe these things and just have people who took things for granted, then there is a chance that eventually we see a new incarnation of the old monoplies that controlled everything. If that day never comes, then we have nothing to worry. However for the time being the future is uncertain.

[EazyE]

thanks obama

[Jubel]

thanks obama

that moment when obama had literally nothing to do with this and if it was romney he wouldn't have had done anything to do with this either


do you know how fed. courts work or