FCC News: Zero Rating Upheld - Net Neutrality is Toast

[ergophobe]

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/fcc-oks-streaming-free-net-neutrality-will-pay/

[rcjordan]

Welcome to the kleptocracy.

[Chunkford]

Hmmm, start of a slippery slope, and what a better way to get it going by turning the attitude of the masses with freebies.
Everything has to be treated equal.
Aaron Swartz would be turning in his grave.

[aaron]

Welcome to the kleptocracy.

I am a bit more optimistic on this front. 

If the web were to become an oligopoly of Google & Facebook then there would be few traffic sources & opportunities / a whack from either one of them can be a death sentence. But if the big beasts are fighting one another at other layers of the value chain, any associated fracturing should lead to more market edges & opportunities, especially if a recession clears away some of the web 3.0 bubble stuff (Tinder for dogs, over a dozen different vegan meal delivery services, etc.).

[rcjordan]

<warp>

3 companies to pay $615,000 in NY attorney general investigation over faked net neutrality comments - ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/3-companies-pay-615000-ny-attorney-general-investigation-99234265