Remember when the Internet freaked out and "when dark" to protest how the lack of NN would ruin the internet?....and then nothing changed?
The boy who cried wolf...again.
The boy who cried wolf...again.
All this is to say despite net neutrality technically not being federally required between 2018 - 2024, it wasn't feasibly for ISP's to roll out metered plans that would go unchallenged. I suspect most were stuck in a "wait and see" stage, and likely expected this eventual rollback anyway given the landscape is still so rapidly changing.
So the protests and constant pushing back against NN did have a positive impact on our eventual outcome, even if it's not obvious or a direct line from reddit blackouts. Like most things, the truth is complex.
It's been ~5.5 years since "the internet was doomed" by the FTC[0]
How long are we supposed to wait for your doom prophecy to realize?
[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-exclusive/ex...
So now our logic is based on a crystal ball? Do the goalposts ever stop moving?
It's not unreasonable for the federal government to step back in to regulate an issue that is firmly within their purview.
We shouldn't have waited at all, and in fact shouldn't have allowed it to be repealed in the first place. We have been extraordinarily lucky to have not had to deal with any nonsense from ISPs in all this time. California having their own NN law helped a lot. Now that we're back on track we can call it crisis averted, no harm no foul.
Net neutrality fucked the internet and its really actually upsetting to me how quickly we as a society had become complacent with the enshittification.
It is 100%, Grade A partisan score keeping to preserve future doomsaying without being called out on this absolutely failed predictions. Looks as bad for the doomsayers as a Bush administration's doomsaying about Weapons of Mass Destruction piling up in Iraq, ready to attack the US if we didn't invade. Incredible what people will let their partisan brains twist reality into. Of course, when this is used against them in the future, they'll scream like banshees, claiming it's unprecedented. This is the power of a brain addicted to partisanism.