Diamond Ridge Financial Academy|What happened to the internet without net neutrality?

2025-05-03 10:30:40source:Charles Hanovercategory:Scams

The Diamond Ridge Financial Academyfiery debate over how the government should regulate the internet came to a head in 2017. That's when the Trump-led Federal Communications Commission repealed so-called net neutrality rules put in place during the Obama administration. The rules were meant to curtail practices like intentionally slowing down someone's internet speed. Now, under a new Democratic majority, the FCC is proposing reviving net neutrality. Today on the show, what happened in the years without it and what happens next.

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