[HN Gopher] Mozilla leads push for FCC to reinstate net neutrality
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       Mozilla leads push for FCC to reinstate net neutrality
        
       Author : pedro-guimaraes
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2021-03-19 17:02 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cnbc.com)
        
       | bad_username wrote:
       | Advocating for the neutrality of internet infrastructure
       | providers, while rallying against the neutrality of internet
       | communication platforms (1), is pretty inconsistent.
       | 
       | 1: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-
       | than-d...
        
       | sintaxi wrote:
       | The predictions that came from the alarmists turned out to be
       | false - which makes me think there is an ulterior motive behind
       | NN we are not being told about.
        
         | PoignardAzur wrote:
         | From what I remember, the crux of the matter was that the
         | change of regulation would give more negotiating power to ISPs
         | when it came to common infrastructures they shared with large
         | cloud providers (Google and co).
         | 
         | The status quo was highly advantageous to said cloud providers,
         | which is why they lobbied so hard against net neutrality
         | changes. And since people on the internet get really vocal
         | about perceived threats to the internet, the lobbying went
         | viral.
        
         | imstate wrote:
         | Therr was a massive astro turf campaign on reddit regarding NN.
         | Of course there is some motive behind it when money is being
         | spent to lobby it.
         | 
         | I even read something about how "people will literally die
         | without NN". That kind of rhetoric should be a signal.
        
           | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
           | Well there was: https://arstechnica.com/tech-
           | policy/2018/08/verizon-throttle...
        
         | rrmm wrote:
         | I'm not sure you can infer that because the worst predictions
         | of alarmists didn't immediately happen, there is no danger in
         | not having network neutrality.
         | 
         | Assuming an ulterior motive is unnecessary, the stated motive
         | seems good enough, they don't want a network to freeze out
         | their services in order to promote their own.
        
       | colpabar wrote:
       | Did anything actually happen when it was repealed? I was pretty
       | upset when it happened, especially when that awful "you can still
       | use the internet" video was made. But I have to admit, I have
       | experienced exactly 0 of the negatives that I was worried about
       | at the time.
        
         | rrmm wrote:
         | I'm sure a lot of the companies who might have benefitted from
         | abusing it were persuaded to wait by various public pressure
         | campaigns. It's always easier to push stuff in slowly once
         | attention was elsewhere.
        
         | thegreatpeter wrote:
         | Did you think they'd change everything over night? These things
         | take time.
        
       | scotuswroteus wrote:
       | Mozilla isn't leading shit.
        
         | blacksmith_tb wrote:
         | "ADT, Dropbox, Eventbrite, Reddit, Vimeo and Wikimedia joined
         | Mozilla" suggests a kind of leadership.
        
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