Bad - Court strikes down fcc net neutrality rules

a federal court struck down FCC net neutrality rules this is really really bad news as the verge is reporting a federal appeals court has struck down important segments of the FCC's open Internet rules determining that the agency doesn't have the power to require internet service providers to treat all traffic equally the DC Circuit Court has ruled on Verizon the FCC a challenge to the net neutrality rules that were first put in place in 2010 vacating the FCC's anti-discrimination and anti blocking policies though it preserved some disclosure requirements that Verizon opposed in other words carriers can make some traffic run faster or block other services but they do have to tell subscribers this is really a big problem we're going to be had doing an interview about this next week Louis this really means that I don't now for to give you an example now that Comcast owns NBC Comcast legally could slow down your connection when accessing a competing service like for example Netflix oh hey yeah you wanna cancel cable TV just keep your internet service and get your videos in TV shows and movies from Netflix pine but the video connection with the internet connection will be slow down so drastically that the videos will be grainy you'll have to read but for all the time all of that this is a huge blow two alternatives to corporate media as well as to preserve this is like Netflix because it is yet another obstacle where internet-based shows can be subject to longer loading times or other disincentives to choose those media outlets over mainstream so-called mainstream of course we know not actually mainstream media outlets and this is this is just terrible this is this is horrible news yeah really bad news I I hope somehow we can reverse this bites if this stands and an this is now widely accepted we have to hope that that that free enterprise and capitalism work and that certain providers whilst will be the ones you stand out and say hey where the ones you have to come to you we're not slowing down anything you know maybe it will become something somewhat of a marketing tool that dead customers could rally around or something that's a good point right and I you know I i mean i of and the only company I can think of that will be the people who do that is Google I with Google Fiber and and but thats you that's not going to be in most cities for a very long time an increasingly people are concerned about Google given the did the data and privacy issues that are happening so yeah I think the FCC actually made a mistake the FCC needs to redefine internet service providers as common carriers at this point Louis we have to just realized that the Internet is what phone use to be at a certain point or it's beyond even what television was at a certain point it is becoming more by utility and it should be considered a common carrier which would completely redefine this entire thing and up and a lot of the problems that we're having