The FCC repeals its net neutrality rules - The Washington Post

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EricHiggin said:

TH3-D0S3R said:

I understand what you are saying in the sense of rural areas. Being from a farm state, many parts are isolated and have no great possibilities at a good internet connection.

The only problem I see is that this doesn't encourage big corporations to expand, but rather make big cash deals with internet companies like Google and force their consumers to pay more upfront to get better speeds.

I could be proven wrong and don't have a 100% vision on the topic, but I just don't see how this can benefit anyone but the big ISP's and corporations.

I'm afraid of that as well. Fixing the regulations as they were would have been much better, and maybe that's what will end up happening, but doing nothing clearly isn't going to solve the problem. What the right answer is exactly I don't know, but what was in place, did a few things well, but hurt many others.

I think if they would have kept the core elements of NN in act alongside expanding the web to better improve rural areas in a new bill/proposal, no one would be complaining. I know a friend of mine who lives in Alaska, and he talks about how even bad networks here are a million times better than his networks back home. There is a reason that BLOCKBUSTER of all places still exists in Alaska today.

However, where it stands now with no new proposal in sight, everyone has a right to be outraged.