Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services...
#Enshittification is the process by which a #platform lures in and then captures end users (stage one), who serve as bait for business customers, who are also captured (stage two), whereupon the platform rug-pulls both groups and allocates all the value they generate and exchange to itself (stage three):
All this raises the question of what can or should be done about Twitter. One possible regulatory response would be to impose an "#EndToEnd" rule on the service, requiring that Twitter deliver posts from willing senders to willing receivers without interfering in them. End-to-end is the bedrock of the internet (one of its incarnations is #NetNeutrality) and it's a proven counterenshittificatory force:
Big Telecom’s lobbyists and spin doctors are working overtime this week because the Federal Communications Commission has at long last announced the agency’s plans to restore Title II net neutrality, which was repealed in 2017 by the Trump administration.
In a functioning democracy, this move would be noncontroversial.
This is the Facebook playbook: you lure in publishers by promising them a traffic funnel ("post excerpts and links and we'll show them to people, including people who never asked to see them"), and then the rug-pull: "Post everything here, don't link to your own site. Become a commodity supplier to our platform. Abandon all your own ways of making money. Become entirely subject to the whims of our recommendation system."
This is very analogous to the #NetNeutrality debate, where a platform blocks or deprioritizes the things its users ask to see, based on whether the suppliers of those things are its competitors.
I've written about how an #EndToEnd principle for social media could be enforced under Sec 5 of the FTCA, how it would address this kind of sleazy practice, how it would be easy to administer, and wouldn't form a barrier to entry for new market entrants:
NEW: In which I preemptively debunk the inevitable incoming 💩wave of anti #netneutrality#astroturf and Big Telecom funded influence ops, so you don't have to!
EU has done really well on passing big laws such as GDPR in the recent years, while the US can’t even seem to decide whether to fund their own government. Why do you think Europe is doing better than the US? One would think that since EU is more diverse it would be harder to find common ground. And there were examples of that...
The US also has corporate lobbyists who use fraudulent techniques such as writing thousands of letters from fake people (they got caught doing this on the #netneutrality issue whereby Congress got thousands of letters appearing to be from individual human beings who all opposed network neutrality -- LOL). Are EU corporate lobbyists willing to partake in such blatant fraud?
Biggest lobby in the US → #NRA. The NRA owns about ½ the politicians. And since the NRA are right-wing extremists who work with #ALEC (right-wing lobby & bill mill), they push everything in favor of big corps and against human beings. They block progress.
#SGGQA 318 – iPhone 15 Overheating, Xiaomi Makes Too Many Phones, X Cuts Election Integrity Team, FCC to Restore Net Neutrality
HAPPY MONDAY! WELCOME TO TECHTOBER! The FCC can FINALLY start working on restoring Net Neutrality. Xitter cut the election disinformation team, and elections are coming up. US Agency sues Tesla over hate speech directed at employees. Qualcomm is working on more AR hardware. Apple is cutting back on their chip orders, while their phones are overheating. And we should chat about the INCREDIBLE number of phones Xiaomi puts out every year...
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The Podcast is GO! #SGGQA 318 - iPhone 15 Overheating, Xiaomi Makes Too Many Phones, X Cuts Election Integrity Team, FCC to Restore Net Neutrality
@FAIR Nope. The so-called #NetNeutrality regulations, drafted by Google for its own benefit, would GIVE hugely powerful companies control over an essential element of public life, stripping consumers and their ISPs control of their own networks.
Regulators at the #FCC announced that they will revisit #NetNeutrality 🎉
I signed @mozilla petition to show my support for an open internet. The more people who say they support net neutrality, the better the case we can make to reinstate it. http://share.mozilla.org/822310648t
Net neutrality may be popping up in your tech headlines and social media timelines. ZDNet explains exactly what it is, why the Federal Communications Commission wants to restore it and what it might mean for internet broadband prices.
Excellent discussion on a private list (sorry about that) about the #FCC's refusal to use captchas or any other way of judging whether submitted comments come from AI or a human. This is to protect every American's First Amendment right. Yay, but it's likely to result in tens of thousand (or more) comments on the new #NetNeutrality policy, drowning out the comments of flesh-based citizens. Letting the 1A silence our voices?
If you haven't already read enough about #netneutrality (impossible! unthinkable!), here are two longer stories I wrote after the 2017 FCC hit Ctrl-Z on the 2015 FCC's work:
The FCC is Expected to Propose the Return of Net Neutrality Protections Oct 19th (www.eff.org)
Network neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data that travels over their networks fairly, without discrimination in favor of particular apps, sites or services...
Why are Europeans more effective at passing big legislation than the US?
EU has done really well on passing big laws such as GDPR in the recent years, while the US can’t even seem to decide whether to fund their own government. Why do you think Europe is doing better than the US? One would think that since EU is more diverse it would be harder to find common ground. And there were examples of that...