Sentence examples for throttling content from inspiring English sources

The order passed today, "Restoring Internet Freedom," essentially removes the FCC as a regulator of the broadband industry and relegates rules that prevented blocking and throttling content to the honor system.

This allowed consumers access to the internet without their service providers blocking or throttling content and it prohibited paid prioritization deals that forced consumers to pay for faster internet speed.

In the past ISPs have throttled content based on their own determination of what was lawful or permissible, and had to be forced to stop in the courts.

Under our dissenting colleague's approach, broadband ISPs would have a First Amendment entitlement to block and throttle content based on their own commercial preferences even if they had led customers to anticipate neutral and indiscriminate access to all internet content.

The bill prohibits internet service providers from blocking or throttling lawful content, apps, services or non-harmful devices.

"These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services.

This is important because no matter how much sense something makes to us as consumers — no fast lanes, no content throttling — that doesn't mean it holds water in court.

Wheeler said that his "enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services".

He not only intends to ban the blocking and throttling of lawful internet content and services, but also wants to prohibit "paid prioritisation" or "fast lanes", the practice by which broadband providers favour some services over others in return for payment ("reasonable" network management, however, will be allowed).

Net neutrality: Making sure broadband carriers are not short-changing consumers over certain content by throttling speeds has been a long-argued issue in Europe and other parts of the world.

Netflix speed on Verizon's network has become a controversial topic after a blog post last week accused Verizon of "throttling," or slowing down, content hosted by Amazon's cloud computing service, including Netflix.