ISPs Are Already Using The FCC's Planned Net Neutrality Repeal To Harm Consumers

ISPs Are Already Using The FCC's Planned Net Neutrality Repeal To Harm Consumers

7 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171129/10461638696/isps-are-already-using-fccs-planned-net-neutrality-repeal-to-harm-consumers.shtml

So if you've been reading Techdirt, you know that the FCC's myopic assault on net neutrality is just a small part of a massive, paradigm-shifting handout to the uncompetitive telecom sector that could have a profoundly negative impact on competition, innovation, privacy, and consumer welfare for the next decade.

The government telecom industry's plan goes something like this: gut nearly all FCC oversight of giant ISPs (including the modest privacy protections killed earlier this year), then shovel any dwindling remaining authority to an FTC that lacks the authority or resources to actually protect competition, businesses and consumers. If any states get the crazy idea to step in and try to fill in the consumer protection gaps, the FCC (again, at Comcast and Verizon's lobbying behest) has clearly stated it will try and use federal authority to slap them down (so much for that dedication to "states rights" applied only when convenient).