<story><title>FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reedx</author><text>What fears about Net Neutrality have come to pass?&lt;p&gt;I was really concerned about it at the time, I admit, but now seems overblown in retrospect. Internet speeds, for example, have only improved since then. And haven&amp;#x27;t seen the concerns about web site bundling or priority access manifest.</text></item><item><author>zachberger</author><text>I know he got a lot of flack for the Net Neutrality rules, but not everything out of this FCC regime has been bad. Just earlier this month the FCC added additional spectrum to the 5 Ghz unlicensed block used by Wifi[1]. I&amp;#x27;m not sure I&amp;#x27;ll ever complain about additional spectrum for WiFi.&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;tech-policy&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;fcc-adds-45mhz-to-wi-fi-promising-supersize-networks-on-5ghz-band&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;tech-policy&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;fcc-adds-45mhz-t...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>deelowe</author><text>&amp;gt; What fears about Net Neutrality have come to pass?&lt;p&gt;ATT appears to have a transparent proxy [1] on LTE that selectively disables protocols based on usage. As a rural LTE user, we completely lost our ability to work&amp;#x2F;school from home for 2 weeks as a result until I could find a suitable alternative. Note, there was no violation of TOS or anything like that.&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.att.com&amp;#x2F;conversations&amp;#x2F;other-phones-devices&amp;#x2F;att-transparent-proxy-not-stable-hanging-connections-to-websites&amp;#x2F;5ee7bfdf483393542c96b341&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.att.com&amp;#x2F;conversations&amp;#x2F;other-phones-devices&amp;#x2F;at...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20</title><url>https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reedx</author><text>What fears about Net Neutrality have come to pass?&lt;p&gt;I was really concerned about it at the time, I admit, but now seems overblown in retrospect. Internet speeds, for example, have only improved since then. And haven&amp;#x27;t seen the concerns about web site bundling or priority access manifest.</text></item><item><author>zachberger</author><text>I know he got a lot of flack for the Net Neutrality rules, but not everything out of this FCC regime has been bad. Just earlier this month the FCC added additional spectrum to the 5 Ghz unlicensed block used by Wifi[1]. I&amp;#x27;m not sure I&amp;#x27;ll ever complain about additional spectrum for WiFi.&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;tech-policy&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;fcc-adds-45mhz-to-wi-fi-promising-supersize-networks-on-5ghz-band&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;tech-policy&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;fcc-adds-45mhz-t...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; And haven&amp;#x27;t seen the concerns about web site bundling or priority access manifest.&lt;p&gt;How would you know?  Absolute blocks are one thing, artificial performance differences another.  If your ISP was slightly reducing the performance of one streaming service to advantage another, how many people would actually test for this?  If a phone maker (apple&amp;#x2F;google&amp;#x2F;whatever) was feeding an ISP money to ensure their phones would be that little bit better on the network, wouldn&amp;#x27;t most people chalk that up to differences in hardware?  True evil survives by being difficult to detect with certainty.</text></comment>