FCC announces plans to resurrect net neutrality rules.::The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access to the internet and its information.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No it doesn’t. It stops them from doing things like throttling access to certain sites and providing special pathways to others. It has nothing to do with speech.

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      1 year ago

      Sorry, what is “it” in that sentence? In mine, “it” is “Internet access”.

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        1 year ago

        “It” is net neutrality. You know, the thing this post is about. Net neutrality does not police speech.

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          Sure. My point was that Internet monopolists have the technical ability to decide “I don’t like the stuff they say on that Lemmy site, Imma block it.” Which is another good reason to not have Internet services be monopolized, or to not let monopolists exercise that sort of technical ability discretionally.

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              Replace “this” with “which” and I’m pretty sure that also gets the point across that the other commenter is trying to make.