Linked List: November 22, 2017

Wednesday, 22 November 2017

FCC Unveils Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality Rules ★

Brian Fung, reporting for The Washington Post:

The Federal Communications Commission took aim at a signature Obama-era regulation Tuesday, unveiling a plan that would give Internet providers broad powers to determine what websites and online services their customers see and use.

Under the agency’s proposal, providers of high-speed Internet services, such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T, would be able to block websites they do not like and charge Web companies for speedier delivery of their content.

This is literally bad for everyone but these mega-ISPs. Horrendously bad — and unpopular — policy.