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ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[+] suzune@ani.social -15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they mean low latency internet connections. This might need some better hardware installations on the side of the provider. This is probably not about net neutrality.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Read the article before commenting, Nimrod.

[–] suzune@ani.social 0 points 7 months ago

The article is about positive discrimination. The so-called critics fear that there is room for additional fees for for enhanced services, even the FCC clearly says that services should not be degraded and treated equally.

When FCC says that they never banned all prioritisation every "critic" is in state of alert. They ignore the fact that internet needs kinds of regulations to work properly on technical level and conflate the statement with the one above. FCC probably allows technical measures to regulate important cases of traffic shaping and even blocking when it's harmful for the service overall. This implies the fact that net neutrality can be guaranteed with these regulations.

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