FCC Votes 3-2 To Reinstate The US' Net Neutrality Rules, Expanding Government Oversight Of ISPs; + more notable news

Lol Verizon keeps trying to spin itself into Sprint. This is hilarious.

Great news for all of us on DSLreports that are pro-internet and pro-consumer. No one on DSLreports would be against net neutrality.
The communications act legal definitions are now being followed again per our laws. The FCC is no longer ignoring the law.
Net neutrality is pro-consumer ensuring customers get the internet they are paying for.

Of course idiot Carr is crying and cant comprehend that the definition of Telecommunications, services, and Title II are written into law in the communications act and the FCC cannot change that without congress passing a new law.
Carr really needs to resign. His dissents are uneducated rambling of being against the libs like a qanon maga. He could care less about the law, constitution, citizens, and consumers. He does not hide his corruption.

Democrats have been on a roll with pro-consumers and workers.
FCC- Net neutrality
FTC-no more non compete clauses
DOT-automatic refunds for canceled flights, they must advertise full ticket prices including fees, all fees for addons must be disclosed up front and state if optional

Carr's Dissent: »docs.fcc.gov/public/atta ··· 82A3.pdf
Obama statement he is referencing: youtube.com/watch?v=uKcjQPVwfDk

There is not one internet user that would be against what Obama said about ensuring a free and open internet. Of course internet has become our replacement for all other telecommunications thus by its definition it falls under Title II as written in the act. Internet has become our "interstate or foreign communication solely through connection by radio, or by wire and radio".
The communications act does not specifically limit itself to specific forms of communications that existed, it broadly covers current and any form of future telecommunications and that is automatic. It was written that way in 1934. The Communications Act of 1934 was specifically written that internet is "telecommunications" and not an "information service via telecommunications". Only congress can change the definitions in the law.
Congress upheld these definition in 1996.
Telecommunications Act 1934 = »transition.fcc.gov/Repor ··· 4new.pdf
Telecommunications Act 1996 = »www.congress.gov/104/pla ··· l104.pdf

said by 1934 :

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(43) TELECOMMUNICATIONS.--The term ''telecommunications'' means the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.
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(20) INFORMATION SERVICE.--The term ''information service'' means the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications, and includes electronic publishing, but does not include any use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service.

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Broadband is just a lane on a highway. The information systems that overlay on that is what you know as the Internet.

It is insane to argue that the internet is not telecommunications. No one truly believes that.

For the trolls, the internet will still 100% exist without the information services. People are free to use it with any information service that they want to use. They can make something new that will work over the internet at any time to make the internet useful for them.

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Sir, unlike you, I actually lived in different countries and when I compare what's being offered on all those locations ( most of them not overly fancy) on all of them, without exception, there is broadband available at lower price and higher speeds than in the middle of the large metro area in the U.S. where I am now. In spite of double digit VAT which is charged because it is considered a utility.
I am accepting your opinion that I am an uneducated imbecile but it means that all the regulators in those countries must be uneducated imbeciles as well so I feel in a good company.
Not sure why you brought up Emirates and Qatar, they swim in oil and money so they could pave their streets in gold.
Yes, it's a right wing agenda, I only see it coming from that corner.

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Why are you feeding the anti-internet and anti-law people that come onto a pro-internet website.

It is insane to argue that the internet is not telecommunications. No one truly believes that. Some people only say that because it is fringe rhetoric from a political party that ignores the law.

For the trolls, the internet will still 100% exist without the information services. People are free to use it with any information service that they want to use or connecting to other computers. They can make something new that will work over the internet at any time to make the internet useful for them.
It is sad that this has to be explained.

No one is anti-internet. As it's been explained multiple times. The suggested connotation of what the Internet is as you suggested is WRONG!!!!

In order to have a real discussion with facts you first have to understand the subject matter your speaking to. Since you can't even articulate what the 7 layers of the OSI model are your statements are grossly inaccurate.

Your service provider is not the Internet the signal from your home to the world is not the Internet. That's broadband. The Internet is a meet me room of fiber optic patch panels going from one provider to another. That's it.

The only troll on the subject is the one spouting information they don't know anything about.

Conversation have to happen with facts otherwise there just monologue. Which is what has been explained at length to you.

A fool doesn't know when they don't know something, a Wiseman knows to ask when they don't know something.

You do understand where word Internet came from right interconnected networks!!!!

The internet is the bottom 4 layers of the OSI model layers 1-4 and any 6th grade networking student would know this. Just wow. I can dumb it down for you - the internet literally starts at your modem with your ISP or in some cases your NIC. The internet has nothing to do with the type or kind of data you send or receive across it including whatever information services you use. Literally nothing.

No one is anti-internet. As it's been explained multiple times. The suggested connotation of what the Internet is as you suggested is WRONG!!!!

In order to have a real discussion with facts you first have to understand the subject matter your speaking to. Since you can't even articulate what the 7 layers of the OSI model are your statements are grossly inaccurate.

Your service provider is not the Internet the signal from your home to the world is not the Internet. That's broadband. The Internet is a meet me room of fiber optic patch panels going from one provider to another. That's it.

The only troll on the subject is the one spouting information they don't know anything about.

Conversation have to happen with facts otherwise there just monologue. Which is what has been explained at length to you.

A fool doesn't know when they don't know something, a Wiseman knows to ask when they don't know something.

You do understand where word Internet came from right interconnected networks!!!!

Telecommunications Act 1934 = »transition.fcc.gov/Repor ··· 4new.pdf
Telecommunications Act 1996 = »www.congress.gov/104/pla ··· l104.pdf

said by 1934 :

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(43) TELECOMMUNICATIONS.--The term ''telecommunications'' means the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.
......
(20) INFORMATION SERVICE.--The term ''information service'' means the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications, and includes electronic publishing, but does not include any use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service.

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BTW, if websites and servers (information services according to you) are all shut down, do you still have an internet? What would broadband at your home be used for without those websites and servers?

if websites and servers ... are all shut down...

The "tele" part of telecommunications has nothing to do with the word telephone. It means distant. Both words use that prefix to mean distant.

But...the internet would 100% still work exactly the same with no websites or servers. The internet is not dependent on those things at all.
The internet still exists as long as computers are connected even if those computers are not sharing any data at that time.
The internet has nothing to do with the type of data you send or receive. It is the network that you can use to send or receive data in any form that you want to.

But, dont enable the trolls. They are now arguing against all the basic meaning of words like lan, wan, internet, inter, intra, networking and have no idea what the OSI model is. I have never seen people just go all in making themselves look foolish like this. They need to take a 6th grade networking class before they comment again.

The "tele" part of telecommunications has nothing to do with the word telephone. It means distant. Both words use that prefix to mean distant.

But...the internet would 100% still work exactly the same with no websites or servers. The internet is not dependent on those things at all.
The internet still exists as long as computers are connected even if those computers are not sharing any data at that time.
The internet has nothing to do with the type of data you send or receive. It is the network that you can use to send or receive data in any form that you want to.

But, dont enable the trolls. They are now arguing against all the basic meaning of words like lan, wan, internet, inter, intra, networking and have no idea what the OSI model is. I have never seen people just go all in making themselves look foolish like this. They need to take a 6th grade networking class before they comment again.

Great news for all of us on DSLreports that are pro-internet and pro-consumer. No one on DSLreports would be against net neutrality.
The communications act legal definitions are now being followed again per our laws. The FCC is no longer ignoring the law.
Net neutrality is pro-consumer ensuring customers get the internet they are paying for.

Of course idiot Carr is crying and cant comprehend that the definition of Telecommunications, services, and Title II are written into law in the communications act and the FCC cannot change that without congress passing a new law.
Carr really needs to resign. His dissents are uneducated rambling of being against the libs like a qanon maga. He could care less about the law, constitution, citizens, and consumers. He does not hide his corruption.

Democrats have been on a roll with pro-consumers and workers.
FCC- Net neutrality
FTC-no more non compete clauses
DOT-automatic refunds for canceled flights, they must advertise full ticket prices including fees, all fees for addons must be disclosed up front and state if optional