The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president.

The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization.

“Consumers have made clear to us they do not want their broadband provider cutting sweetheart deals, with fast lanes for some services and slow lanes for others,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at today’s meeting.

  • KillingTimeItself
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    47 months ago

    but if everyone sent 16PB a month they would have some bomb ass connections as well, and i would sure hope as hell that it would hold up.

    I dont even want to calculate how fast a connection would need to be for that to be a datacap.

    • @uis
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      37 months ago

      More than 6 gigabytes per second

      • KillingTimeItself
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        37 months ago

        ok so basically fucking impossible. Cool.

        Even 10 gig would only net you 1 and a bit gigs.

        You would need 50 gig to saturate that properly.