Muh shekels, muh connections

Except ✡net neutrality✡ has nothing to do with this.

https://archive.fo/iySRX :

Pissed Off by Verizon, Firefighters Join the Fight to Restore Net Neutrality - Motherboard

'Should the CRA gambit fail, activists will be shifting their focus toward passing state-level net neutrality laws that largely mirror the discarded federal rules. '

'When Santa Clara Fire Department complained to Verizon, Verizon’s first instinct wasn’t to fix the problem, but to upsell the department to a far more expensive plan. '

'As if the repeal of net neutrality weren’t unpopular enough, Verizon’s decision to slow down the cellular connection used by firefighters as they battled a recent wildfire appears to have taken the longstanding fight to yet another level. '

'After the story gained nationwide attention, Verizon admitted that the throttling of first responders was in violation of Verizon’s own policies, but in a statement to Motherboard denied that the fracas had anything to do with net neutrality. '

' With firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics now joining the overwhelming majority of bipartisan Americans in support of net neutrality, the momentum to reverse the FCC’s handout to big telecom is only gaining steam as state-level battles escalate and this fall’s court battle looms. '

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