Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What you need to know about the FCC’s new net neutrality proposal”.
Okay, I’m looking at the homepage of the verge right now, and it says we won the internet back so TL, DR the FCC decided not to mess up the internet for future generations. It’S safe from the evil Internet Service Providers, yeah, which is pretty huge news. I mean last year the net neutrality rules were struck down right, the FCC decided to propose new ones, which everybody thought were awful and would destroy the Internet, and now here we are basically a year later and looks like things are gon na, be in good shape. It’S a classic comeback story. So, for the past year, the Federal Communications Commission has been trying to implement new rules to protect net neutrality, which is a principle that all data on the Internet, no matter who it’s going to or where is coming from, should be treated equally right, can’t slow it Down just because it’s a website, you don’t like exactly, which is great and everybody wants that protect it, or at least advocates of net neutrality, which is mostly everybody aside from the big internet providers right and so the old net neutrality rules were struck down in court Because they didn’t have solid legal footing and so for the past year the FCC has been trying to figure out what the right legal footing is. And today it’s come forward, and it said it’s going to use title 2 to enforce these strong net neutrality rules.
And that’s exactly what net neutrality advocates have wanted them to do, and so this is an idea about not allowing like slow and fast lanes on the Internet. So there are going to be three big rules here as far as net neutrality protections and those three rules are that internet providers aren’t going to be able to block any web sites or data or services as long as they’re legal you’ll be able to get them. They’Re not gon na be able to throttle any websites or data or services and they’re not going to allow paid fast lanes, so no company’s gon na be able to pay their way to make sure that their stuff goes faster. While some other website, some small guy gets slower so title 2 is something that the FCC has been using for a long time to regulate telephone networks. It’S well established it. It’S pretty much something that covers all communications and when the internet arrived, they made a distinction between a telephone network and an information service provider, an ISP which is what a lot of people will call. The telephone company or cable come in.
It’S giving you the Internet and they said that they weren’t providing sort of this transit. This communication service, they were an information service, and so they be regulated differently. Title 2 would basically bring them back in-house for the FCC to regulate the same way they have done for the telephone companies for decades.
So that’s why people think it’s stronger legal footing for them to stand on in court. We don’t know yet, if that’s going to be true, a lot of advocates think the title 2 is great, but AT .