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The Fight for Net Neutrality: Today
Posted on 7/12/17 at 11:52 am
Posted on 7/12/17 at 11:52 am
Please visit Battle for the Net and fight for net neutrality.
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We depend on Net Neutrality to keep the Internet the free and open marketplace of ideas. Ending Net Neutrality may lead to: Tiered internet structure which can make Internet very expensive for web users. Users who consume lots of data (Netflix, Youtube, video games, etc.) are especially at risk for massive price spikes. Monopolies. ISPs could also decide to create their own websites to compete with any existing website like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, then put their competition in a more expensive internet package, pricing them out of the market, causing them to shrivel up and be replaced by your ISP brand version of [insert site]. Stifled innovation. Even if the ISP aren't trying to directly compete, tiered internet can stifle innovative new upstart websites who can't afford to pay the ISP the premium to be included in an affordable tier of Internet. This will severely limit their visibility and ability to gain traction. Censorship. ISPs can censor anything that they disagree with for any reason. Like this very post! And boy they have tried! Ending net neutrality will make their censorship process instantaneous and without recourse. Political oppression. Government may be able to have content taken down (or more stealthily priced out of the market) for political reasons indirectly, using the ISP's own 'free will' as a proxy. Meaning it gets to completely subvert the First Amendment free speech protection. The ubiquity of crony capitalism, the situation that has long existed where there is a close relationship between business (lobbyists) and government makes this a very real possibility without network neutrality to protect us. These are only some of the foreseeable reasons we should fight for net neutrality. YouTuber TotalBiscuit explains the situation (YT: Net Neutrality explained and why it matters.) If you are not in the US you can help by spreading this info and raising awareness, especially among your US friends.
This post was edited on 7/12/17 at 1:27 pm
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Posted on 7/12/17 at 11:54 am to J Murdah
Wow, interesting point, I want you to consider though, today is also my birthday... So...
Posted on 7/12/17 at 11:54 am to J Murdah
Hippies
Posted on 7/12/17 at 11:55 am to J Murdah
FCC is voting today and the internet chooses today as the "day of action"
The vote will probably be over before anyone realizes what pornhub or Amazon is doing. Seems late to me.
The vote will probably be over before anyone realizes what pornhub or Amazon is doing. Seems late to me.
This post was edited on 7/12/17 at 11:56 am
Posted on 7/12/17 at 11:57 am to J Murdah
I agree with the concept of an open internet not controlled by the cable companies. However, privacy concerns with net neutrality in this current form, as well as the Pandora's box of government intervention, make me very weary of this as well.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 11:59 am to J Murdah
the fight for net neutrality is way under represented in the news and I hate that many people have no idea the importance of this
Posted on 7/12/17 at 12:00 pm to J Murdah
i would like to join the TD admins in their fight. making the search function ungodly slow today is really raising awareness
Posted on 7/12/17 at 12:01 pm to J Murdah
Get the stop sign when I click.
CHICKEN IS IN ON IT!!!
CHICKEN IS IN ON IT!!!
Posted on 7/12/17 at 12:06 pm to J Murdah
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The FCC is voting today on this very important issue today.
"Today, you should have seen me and Mousey today, at school today." -Drugs Delaney.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 12:24 pm to J Murdah
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Net Neutrality:
AKA stupid bullshite topic for hippies who don't want to pay for porn or game of thrones. Get a job.
Posted on 7/12/17 at 12:29 pm to J Murdah
For those that don't understand, the cable companies want the consumer to pay a flat rate for internet access. Then, based on your consumption, you pay additional fees. Ex. If you just look at Facebook, then you don't pay any extra. Stream movies and football games, $20 extra a month. Then there is the 1% who do shady shite and pull major data and they would be able to stop them. The problem is each provider will be at liberty to establish their own baselines for what is charged. So if you have one option in your area for an ISP, too bad. Jokes on you.
ETA:
ISPs are also viciously fighting against being labeled a utility. If that happens, then their profit margins will be regulated, and they would be forced to have adequate infrastructure. That is not kosher when you are focused only on profit.
ETA:
ISPs are also viciously fighting against being labeled a utility. If that happens, then their profit margins will be regulated, and they would be forced to have adequate infrastructure. That is not kosher when you are focused only on profit.
This post was edited on 7/12/17 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 7/12/17 at 2:38 pm to J Murdah
The loss of net neutrality will rape frick this country.
Its an unspeakable outrage and it cannot be allowed to happen.
If they allow ISPs to dictate traffic based on their own hidden agendas we should March to the FCC and burn those mother frickers to the ground.
As if dealing with ISPs isn't already one of the worst companies anyone ever has to deal with this will only make it so so much worse.
Its an unspeakable outrage and it cannot be allowed to happen.
If they allow ISPs to dictate traffic based on their own hidden agendas we should March to the FCC and burn those mother frickers to the ground.
As if dealing with ISPs isn't already one of the worst companies anyone ever has to deal with this will only make it so so much worse.
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