FCC Net Neutrality Debate
The cluster focuses on the FCC's opposition to net neutrality, especially under Ajit Pai's leadership, including the repeal of rules, historical policy shifts between administrations, and criticisms of comment manipulation and industry influence.
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Why is the FCC against net neutrality?
Wow. Wasn't the FCC one of the stongest proponents of net.neutrality? What happend? Can anyone explain?
Source, for those wondering: https://reason.com/archives/2017/04/26/fcc-ajit-pai-net-neut...
Hot on the heels of FCC repealing net neutrality?
More like FCC chair dismisses net neutrality backlash.
From the wikipedia net neutrality page it looks like the FCC's stance has historically depended on the administration in power. There was the much celebrated 2015 change to title II, which was undone in 2017 i.e. the start of the ajit pai era. Now he is finally gone, but not before casting his vote in a 3-2 decision in 2020 to keep net neutrality dismantled. The new chair is pro-nn and working to undo the damage but it takes time.
The head of the FCC explicitly wants to remove net neutrality
I think the downvotes are coming from the fact that net neutrality was the de facto standard, and once it was visibly broken by ISPs (e.g. after the Netflix and similar situations), Net Neutrality was quickly applied by the FCC under Tom Wheeler. This was overturned by Ajit Pai as one of his first acts and is the cause for this entire discussion.
GP maybe confused FTC with FCC? The current FCC chairman Ajit Pai does not support net neutrality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai#Net_neutrality_in_the...
The hypocrisy of the same FCC that said that network neutrality was too much regulation to now demand "political neutrality" is outrageous.