L4sBotFCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai
Uncaged_JayIn all seriousness, what has having these laws repealed done?
The rules have never really been in affect, all the things that folks warned would happen without net neutrality hasn’t happened.
It has though. Traffic shaping is common, especially on mobile networks where video streams and VPN traffic will get deprioritized and throttled to force lower resolution playback for certain services. Many mobile ISPs are actually pretty open that they do this. In other cases this stuff is done quietly enough that you don’t really notice it is happening. Mobile operators get away with it because people are almost trained to expect mobile networks to be flaky.
Mobile I believe is exempt anyways. Traffic shaping is a necessity from a network admin perspective. If you allow mobile networks to not have QOS restrictions then there could be times where you wouldn’t be able to make a phone call because everyone around you is streaming 8k videos.