Government micromanaging the internet again as net neutrality makes a comeback



The Federal Communications Commission has just voted to restore net neutrality regulations, aiming to rein in internet providers.

The decision was split along party lines with a 3-2 vote and mandates that internet service providers must treat all traffic equally. Under Trump in 2017, the previous 2015 FCC regulations were axed — as his administration did not believe the federal government should micromanage the internet.

The initial regulations were put in place under Obama and aimed at preventing service providers like Verizon or Comcast from blocking or degrading the delivery of services from competitors like Netflix and YouTube.

“That’s where you’d get the buffering,” Jeffy explains to Pat Gray. “They would allot only so much for the Netflix feed bandwidth and whatever, and that was when they were fighting over what each company was going to pay for access and everything.”

“But that’s between private companies,” he adds. “If they’re messing with your internet service, change providers,” Gray agrees. “The free market takes care of this.”

The chairman of the FCC, who is a Democrat, said that these rules reflected the importance of high-speed internet as the main mode of communications for many Americans and that “every consumer deserves access that is fast, open, and fair.”

Gray isn’t so sure he agrees.

“Do we all deserve it, really? And do we deserve it to be provided by the government?” he asks.


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The Democratic House spent its last session before a two-and-a-half-week spring recess debating and voting 232-190 to pass a major net neutrality bill that has no chance of becoming law.

Only one Republican joined with Democrats on the measure: Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla.

The “Save the Internet Act of 2019” (H.R. 1644) seeks to “restore the open internet order of the Federal Communications Commission.” That’s a Washington way of saying it would reinstate the Obama-era net neutrality regulations the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal in December 2017.

The bill has pretty much no chance whatsoever of becoming law.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday that the bill is “dead on arrival” in this Senate because the chamber will not take it up. Last year, Democrats were able to get around Senate leadership to force a vote on the matter, and it succeeded by a vote of 52-47 after three Republicans joined with the minority: Susan Collins, Maine, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, and John Kennedy, La.

Regardless of what happens in the Senate, however, the Trump administration sent out a clear veto threat Monday.

The bill was introduced last month by Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Penn., and of its almost 200 cosponsors, there was not a single Republican to be found.

As to the supposed necessity of the bill, widespread hyperbolic doomsday predictions about the death of the internet that preceded the 2017 vote never came true. In reality, internet download speeds and mobile data speeds actually increased in the year following the repeal.

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