Senate Votes To Save Net Neutrality

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Net neutrality has been in place for several years, protecting consumers from big Internet providers from throttling or slowing traffic for particular sites or services. But earlier this year, the FCC, headed by chairman Ajit Pai, opted to knock down Net Neutrality, in the hopes of giving big business the chance to move in.

This proves to be devastating not only for those who use the Internet on a regular basis, but also the gaming community, as developers and players alike rely on a speedy connection to keep things moving along. So, like all of us, they argued that Net Neutrality should stay in place, despite the FCC’s plans. And it looks like the Senate agrees.

As reported by CNET, a vote was held in the Senate to see if Net Neutrality could be restored. And thanks to a very tight race, Democrats were able to secure a victory, temporarily protecting the Internet -- and its users -- from Pai’s advances. At least for now.

The repeal of net neutrality ended up passing the Senate by a margin of three mere votes -- more than enough to give it strength as it makes its way into the House of Representatives next, where the fight is likely to continue over the next few months. Still, a win is a win, right?

As a result, the Internet will remain the same and Net Neutrality will not be removed as of June 11. But there’s still votes ahead at the House of Representatives -- not to mention having president Donald Trump sign off on it, which he’s very much against.

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Source: http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/05/16/senate-votes-to-save-net-neutrality-gamers-react/

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TOXICPosted:

Lets just hope it stays this way for the near future.

FamousPosted:

Glad this happened. Additional charges would keep people. Big business already make enough money.

XeCookiePosted:

lbreadstickl
MushroomElm
XeCookie_
XeCookie_ YESS!! Hopefully we can remain this way forever!


Completely mis read this lol but damn we need to repeal this already so dumb how they want us to pay for additional things and throttle our connection smh!


"Just because they can, doesn't mean they will" is what I've heard. When people forget that Comcast has ALREADY done it, before Obama put this in place during his term. Remember? Comcast had a huge stake in Hulu, so they would purposely throttle anyone using Netflix, and entice them to sign up for Hulu instead. Netflix ended up PAYING Comcast to keep their Streams good.

They will gladly do it again. Every game has microtransactions now. Why shouldn't the internet? "You've played CoD for about 30 minutes...Pay $5 to keep going."

Proof for the Comcast thing on Cnet: https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-reaches-streaming-traffic-agreement-with-comcast/

Just drop Comcast if they pull some bitch move like that?


Of course the ISPs are all for it lol why wouldnt they be its just more money for them.

lbreadsticklPosted:

MushroomElm
XeCookie_
XeCookie_ YESS!! Hopefully we can remain this way forever!


Completely mis read this lol but damn we need to repeal this already so dumb how they want us to pay for additional things and throttle our connection smh!


"Just because they can, doesn't mean they will" is what I've heard. When people forget that Comcast has ALREADY done it, before Obama put this in place during his term. Remember? Comcast had a huge stake in Hulu, so they would purposely throttle anyone using Netflix, and entice them to sign up for Hulu instead. Netflix ended up PAYING Comcast to keep their Streams good.

They will gladly do it again. Every game has microtransactions now. Why shouldn't the internet? "You've played CoD for about 30 minutes...Pay $5 to keep going."

Proof for the Comcast thing on Cnet: https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-reaches-streaming-traffic-agreement-with-comcast/

Just drop Comcast if they pull some bitch move like that?

MazePosted:

With ~80% of citizens agreeing that Net Neutrality should be protected, this is sad that this is even news.
I'm happy as hell with the outcome but I wish the flaws in government weren't so visible right now.

MushroomElmPosted:

XeCookie_
XeCookie_ YESS!! Hopefully we can remain this way forever!


Completely mis read this lol but damn we need to repeal this already so dumb how they want us to pay for additional things and throttle our connection smh!


"Just because they can, doesn't mean they will" is what I've heard. When people forget that Comcast has ALREADY done it, before Obama put this in place during his term. Remember? Comcast had a huge stake in Hulu, so they would purposely throttle anyone using Netflix, and entice them to sign up for Hulu instead. Netflix ended up PAYING Comcast to keep their Streams good.

They will gladly do it again. Every game has microtransactions now. Why shouldn't the internet? "You've played CoD for about 30 minutes...Pay $5 to keep going."

Proof for the Comcast thing on Cnet: https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-reaches-streaming-traffic-agreement-with-comcast/

XeCookiePosted:

XeCookie_ YESS!! Hopefully we can remain this way forever!


Completely mis read this lol but damn we need to repeal this already so dumb how they want us to pay for additional things and throttle our connection smh!

LostPosted:

It's honestly sad how they keep trying to get rid of it.

XeCookiePosted:

YESS!! Hopefully we can remain this way forever!


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