Repeal took effect today.
- Several states have taken measures to ensure the rules stay in effect. For example, in March, Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington, a Democrat, signed a law that effectively replaced the federal rules. Others, including the governors of Montana and New York, used executive orders to force net neutrality.
As of late May, 29 state legislatures had introduced bills meant to ensure net neutrality, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Still, several of these measures have failed, some are still pending, and not every state has taken such actions.
It certainly isn't. Net Neutrality isn't a Federal regulation, it's a broad principle. It can be voluntarily upheld by ISPs, as it was for decades, or it can be enforce at the state level. With actual competitive markets for retail Internet access, specific regulations like this wouldn't be necessary, as customers could choose to leave non-neutral providers.
That's the rub. We don't have competitive markets, there isn't a political desire to create them, and people in rural areas likely wouldn't be well-served by them, when they are at all.With actual competitive markets for retail Internet access, specific regulations like this wouldn't be necessary, as customers could choose to leave non-neutral providers.
The point about rural markets is what got Rysdall riled up last night. Pai was saying that removal of regulation saved a small ISP in Georgia $8000. The pushback he got in the interview was from seeming to ignore the fact that three companies have a monopoly on internet service by using the exceptions of rural ISPs as an example of why I don't currently have only one option for broadband. I wanted to reach through the radio and punch him in the dick
A noble stance by the states, however its time to think of what the new internet should look like. The current internet is becoming like pay TV so we need to reinvent the internet to be what the old internet was to pay TV #freeinternet #freeyourmind #decentralise
I prefer it most of the time. Let's them book guests who wouldn't agree to be on a show they perceive as hostile. It wasn't so much gentle today as it was in the tone of a professional journalist. Last week they had some piece of shit House member on who was pretty much just spouting Trump talking points in the most obnoxious way he could. That guy could have used a polite "Shut the fuck up." That was not a good interview