These net-neutrality protesters are akin to the anti-fur protesters running around throwing blood on people. It may make them feel good about their virtue and that they are doing something, but it is unlikely to change minds.
These net-neutrality protesters are akin to the anti-fur protesters running around throwing blood on people. It may make them feel good about their virtue and that they are doing something, but it is unlikely to change minds.
How quickly do you expect these things to happen? Overnight?
This isn't Hollywood. The moment the decision is made storm clouds don't appear overhead to signify the ominous direction that things have gone.
As I understand it, the repeal order hasn't yet taken effect. If nothing has changed (yet) then of course no one has been harmed or inconvenienced by it, which would make your argument pointless.
My understanding is that there was a vote to repeal in December. The final order was published in the Federal Register on January 4, 2018. It then takes 60 days until the repeal order takes effect.
With the repeal being challenged in the courts and states adopting net neutrality policies by law and executive action, ISPs are unlikely to make major changes outside of what they were doing for the decade+ when neutrality, enforced by different means, was FCC policy is until the legal landscape is more clear, even once the repeal formally takes effect (which, barring a preliminary injunction, it will in, IIRC, mid-March.)
So, yeah, barring an ISP deciding to take a huge risk by setting up an extreme test case in an uncertain legal environment, the full effect (or even any major effect) is unlikely to be felt for quite a while.
The fact that dial-up ISPs are still required to submit to NN, but cable-based ones are not seems odd, wouldn't you think?