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Lindsay Chestnut of Baltimore holds a sign that reads "I
like My Internet Like I Like my Country Free & Open" as she protests
near the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in Washington,
In the short term, the answer is simple: Not much. But over time, your ability to watch what you want to watch online and to use the apps that you prefer could start to change.
Your mobile carrier, for instance, might start offering you terrific deals for signing up to its own video service, just as your YouTube app starts suffering unexpected connection errors. Or you could wake one day to learn that your broadband provider is having a tiff with Amazon, and has slowed down its shopping site in order to extract business concessions.
All of which would be perfectly legal under the new deregulatory regime approved Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission, so long as the companies post their policies online. Broadband providers insist they won’t do anything that harms the “internet experience” for consumers.
On Thursday, the FCC repealed Obama-era “net neutrality” rules, junking the long-time principle that all web traffic must be treated equally. The move represents a radical departure from more than a decade of federal oversight.
The big telecommunications companies had lobbied hard to overturn the rules, contending they are heavy-handed and discourage investment in broadband networks.
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Blocking access to websites, slowing speed: What rollback of net neutrality could mean for internet users in US
Lindsay Chestnut of Baltimore holds a sign that reads "I like My Internet Like I Like my Country Free &...
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