New York Governor Promises Net Neutrality Legislation In 2020 (cnet.com) 21
Last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for a state net neutrality law as part of his 2020 legislative agenda, joining states like California in proposing a law to ensure his state's internet users have access to a free and open internet. CNET reports: Cuomo's plan comes two years after the Federal Communications Commission repealed Obama-era net neutrality protections, which ensured that broadband companies couldn't block or slow down access to the internet or favor their own content or services over a competitor's. "A free and open internet is one of the great equalizers -- allowing every person the same access to information and helping protect freedom of speech," Cuomo said in a statement. He said his proposed legislation would ensure that "big corporations can't control what information we access or stymie smaller competitors."
After the federal rules were repealed in late 2017, Cuomo was among several governors who issued an executive order barring state agencies from signing contracts with internet service providers that don't practice net neutrality. The law Cuomo is proposing would go beyond the executive order and apply to any internet service provider offering services in the state. Specifically, it would require internet service providers to disclose how they manage internet traffic and certify that they comply with New York's net neutrality rules. If companies break the rules, they could be fined by the state and also sued by consumers. The proposed New York state law would also outlaw so-called "zero-rating" -- a practice that lets broadband companies exclude usage of certain apps and services from customers' monthly data allotments, while other apps and services are counted.
After the federal rules were repealed in late 2017, Cuomo was among several governors who issued an executive order barring state agencies from signing contracts with internet service providers that don't practice net neutrality. The law Cuomo is proposing would go beyond the executive order and apply to any internet service provider offering services in the state. Specifically, it would require internet service providers to disclose how they manage internet traffic and certify that they comply with New York's net neutrality rules. If companies break the rules, they could be fined by the state and also sued by consumers. The proposed New York state law would also outlaw so-called "zero-rating" -- a practice that lets broadband companies exclude usage of certain apps and services from customers' monthly data allotments, while other apps and services are counted.
Where TF is the Festivus Article? (Score:2)
For the rest of us.
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We're busy with the "Airing of Grievances". This year it might take a while.
If Cuomo was serious about this (Score:2)
He wouldn't be taking money from Time Warner Cable LLC through loopholes and pursue them in court for the promises they've made so far and haven't kept. No amount of feel-good legislation is going to help if you got someone like the Cuomo crime family running the show - https://www.propublica.org/art... [propublica.org]
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He wouldn't be taking money from Time Warner Cable LLC through loopholes and pursue them in court for the promises they've made so far and haven't kept. No amount of feel-good legislation is going to help if you got someone like the Cuomo crime family running the show - https://www.propublica.org/art... [propublica.org]
Crooked politician, honest politician, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny equidistant from a sack of money at a crossroads. If they all run for the money at the same time, who gets it?
Crooked politician, of course, since there's no such thing as Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, or an honest politician.
Congradulation Telcos (Score:2)
Except for having a single law that allowed you to have fixed rules to allow you to operate. You have successfully lobbied a situation where you need to try to comply with different laws in each state. Even states with similar laws will have different nuances which will make it more expensive to follow and having to multiply your lobbying attempts by 50.
Here is an idea. maintain your business to keep a demand, and don't slow or block traffic to particular sites.
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They don't have to, as TWC does in NY they just ignore the law and pay off the governor's family and his cronies directly. TWC promised to build out gigabit to rural NY, except they didn't, then they changed names and simply said they're no longer bound by the contract and lobbied NYS Democrats and Cuomo to basically forget about the issue.
Cuomo had more buddies go to prison around him than Trump, Hillary and Epstein combined. And if you think any other state is any different, all states that have enacted N
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That doesn't make any sense. Net Neutrality legislation would have to be for something that isn't Net Neutrality at all if it "kills smaller telcos's" (nice abuse of an apostrophe; where's the possessive?). Net Neutrality, as a concept, has nothing to do with the size of the ISP. Net Neutrality-based legislation would do nothing to alleviate (or worsen) ISP monopolism in the United States. The neo-Baby Bells and big cable companies ALREADY have huge monopolies. They ARE infamous for soaking up money fr
Promises? (Score:2)
He can promise all he wants to, but being the Governor, not a legislator, means his promises reduce to "I really hope the legislature gives me some legislation to sign".
Plus there's the whole "I want a piece of that money the telcos are passing along to legislators to keep this sort of law from passing" thing....
Who wants to be a political telco in NY? (Score:1)
If NY is so interesting in telco work, build a city and state, tri-state area community broadband.
Connect every house, building with a permit to city optical.
Let people all over the city buy their on ISP over community broadband.
Optical for all.
Every ISP and telco is then free of NY city politics making political demands on their products and services.
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That's the problem with some of these Net Neutrality regulations (FCC) or laws (state-level). What the Internet is meant to be was defined more-or-less by Congress back in 1993. Or, more to the point, it's defined by its very nature: it's a TCP/IP packet-switching network. Net Neutrality, such as it is, is a consequence of its failsafe nature. Faithful routing from source to destination ASAP by whatever route is available. Interfere with that, and you no longer have a network sufficiently well-hardened
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All federal, city, state support stops.
All the legal protections go and the ISP becomes just another "company".
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If only that were true.
Ajit Pai Must Be Removed! (Score:2)
Predictions and Reality of Net Neutrality (Score:1)
Ironic (Score:2)
Republicans cry like babies when they are censored, yet they are against net neutrality .. which can prevent some forms of censorship. If net neutrality is not allowed it will be comedic if not poetic justice if the ones most affected are those fools.
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If net neutrality is not allowed it will be comedic if not poetic justice if the ones most affected are those fools.
They won't be, because as deeply involved in corporatism as the democrats are, the republicans are even moreso.
Even Better (Score:2)
I live in a NY suburb. While many of the townships around me have both Altice (formerly known as Cablevision) and Verizon FiOS, my township only has Altice, Verizon DSL (at 3Mbits/sec, though usually only pushing 2) and WISPs...because the townships are doing some sort of BS that prevents Verizon from running the lines. Oh, and because of this, guess who is providing the backhaul to the telcos who are throwing 5G towers on phone poles? That's right - Altice...so, while people a mile away from me can have Fi