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FCC to get Republican majority and plans to “delete” as many rules as possible (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 154 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Goodbye net neutrality.

Won’t it be so much fun when you have to pay for website “bundles” like they’re TV channels? The web is getting so centralized that maybe they’ll stop offering connections to anything other than Facebook and Shitter if you don’t pay for “unlimited” access.

Would be kinda convenient to make it harder to access fediverse platforms, or anywhere else that doesn’t moderate against any ideas to the left of Reagan.

[+] venotic@kbin.melroy.org -27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The bad sites are likely the ones to not require a fee to access. It would be smaller sites and the Fediverse that would become more difficult and expensive to access.

Why pay to access Mastodon or Lemmy when you can use Twitter and Reddit for "free". It's a scheme that would benefit large corporations over smaller independent services.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Beyond that - with the porn bans:

Lemmy and mastodon servers aren’t going to collect your ID to make sure you can look at porn. Realistically, small sites are not going to have the moderation required to keep in compliance with those laws - if corpos like Aylo (which owns Pornhub, Brazzers, Red Tube - really a shit ton of porn sites, which could be a fun discussion about capitalism consolidation as well) think it’s too much effort and are just throwing up geoblocks - how many smaller sites will be forced to do the same?

Or even the potential to switch to a “whitelist” internet. Only being able to access websites which are “appropriately” moderated.

[+] venotic@kbin.melroy.org -15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] DharkStare@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Large corporations would be able to afford to make deals with ISPs to give them preferential treatment so that access to their sites are faster than others. This is good for social media sites whose whole business model is monetizing their users. Things like the Fediverse would be hit especially hard because of its distributed nature.

ISPs can offer further tiers of plans making it more expensive to access websites that don't belong to major corporations bribing the ISPs. All the corporations win in this scheme while furthering the enshittification of the Internet.

Want to use Linux? Accessing those sites is difficult and expensive so why not use Windows instead

Want to use Mastodon? Sorry but that sites super slow so how about Twitter instead.

Want to use end to end encrypted email? Too bad. The connection their servers are super spotty. Better use Gmail or Yahoo for email like everyone else.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

They don't need to know who the small fish are, they just need to know who isn't a big fish.

[–] thepresentpast@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. The biggest mainstream players in social media are all already aligned with the current administration. Meta et al. would be the ones to be available for free, and alternatives will be paywalled.

[–] graycube@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing the "do not call" list goes out the window, not that it actually changes much anyhow.

[–] eronth@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It already has. I have gotten more spam calls in 2025 than I've gotten in the 5 or 10-ish years prior to that.

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I've been do sales pitches for crypto classes to all my spam calls and texts. It's works so well they usually block me.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 months ago

[–] cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Can’t wait until we’re forced to access the internet exclusively through starlink!

[–] MisterMoo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

This is what happens when you lose elections.

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Welp.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 months ago

You gonna delete the equal time rule, too? Didn't think so.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Regulations are written in blood. Battle for Blair Mountain Pt 2 here we come.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

But not the ones regarding morality. Just the ones that prevent corporations from fucking over consumers

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

cant rely on law to protect you anymore