The FCC runs an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The program was historically …
Net Neutrality doesn’t refer to blocking sites based on viewpoint. It refers to throttling data based on origin/destination - e.g. AT&T can’t cap you at 5GB but allow unlimited traffic to their Max streaming service. They also can’t double-dip and charge you for bandwidth to stream Netflix and also Netflix to get access to you.
I know it’s not referring to blocking particular ideologies.
But it can effectively mean throttling or blocking based on ideology, if the origin of the content is on a site that the people doing the filtering don’t like the ideology, and they’ve packaged things such that there’s a more of a paywall for sites the Powers That Be aren’t too keen on. What I’m getting at is this looks a lot like they’re trying to lock in the majority of poorer Americans and force them to consume only their propaganda, because it’s all Starlink will show them.
And I wouldn’t be terribly shocked if Comcast et al ends up following suit, in the interest of appeasing Trump and maybe getting him to give them more tax breaks, because that’s precisely how our government works now.
Net Neutrality doesn’t refer to blocking sites based on viewpoint. It refers to throttling data based on origin/destination - e.g. AT&T can’t cap you at 5GB but allow unlimited traffic to their Max streaming service. They also can’t double-dip and charge you for bandwidth to stream Netflix and also Netflix to get access to you.
I know it’s not referring to blocking particular ideologies.
But it can effectively mean throttling or blocking based on ideology, if the origin of the content is on a site that the people doing the filtering don’t like the ideology, and they’ve packaged things such that there’s a more of a paywall for sites the Powers That Be aren’t too keen on. What I’m getting at is this looks a lot like they’re trying to lock in the majority of poorer Americans and force them to consume only their propaganda, because it’s all Starlink will show them.
And I wouldn’t be terribly shocked if Comcast et al ends up following suit, in the interest of appeasing Trump and maybe getting him to give them more tax breaks, because that’s precisely how our government works now.