Another hot topic to write your representative about: Net neutrality

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    • #230754

      Here’s yet another urgent reason to write your state representative: the FCC is seeking to end net neutrality. This is the rule that prevents internet service providers from slowing down certain websites who don’t pay them extra access fees.

      The FCC is planning to pass rules that effectively end Net Neutrality this month. This would almost certainly be detrimental to small, independent websites like Singletracks. Ending net neutrality would also make it harder for new websites and online communities to get off the ground, and allow better-funded operators to dominate the media.

      You already pay for your internet service and should be free to visit whatever websites you like at a reasonable speed. Companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T are already making profits off the service they provide, but this would allow them to greatly increase those profits at the expense of hundreds of thousands of small, independent companies that do business online.

      Write or call your representative and let them know you oppose the FCC’s action. Do it today–the deadline is December 14.

      https://www.battleforthenet.com/

    • #230768

      Done and done.

      Seems like we have to fight this battle every other year.

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    • #230879

      It really depends on how you define “net neutrality”. The problem we have now is that the internet is unregulated so mega-corporations like Google and Facebook can grow without limitations to the point where they can simply assimilate any new competition that arises (WhatsApp, Instagram). This sucks if you hate Google and Facebook as much as i do. Maybe net neutrality doesn’t exist and is simply a liberal feel good fantasy. Maybe regulation of the net is a good idea in that we can tax the mega-corporations to limit their size.

      • #230887

        Maybe regulation of the net is a good idea in that we can tax the mega-corporations to limit their size.

        That could work. Give small and large businesses the same access, but charge the big guys extra. Not sure the internet service providers have an incentive to implement it that way though.

        Beyond Google and Facebook (which I agree, have an enormous amount of power that they tend to abuse,) think about Comcast and NBC. Comcast could make it so streaming/watching NBC Universal content is easy, but Netflix is slow or costs extra. Comcast does have an incentive to try this out, since they directly profit from the arrangement. It’s a win if they get more NBC viewers, and a win if they can force Netflix to pay them more.

    • #230890

      Net Neutrality is to free speech as the Affordable Care Act is to quality health care. A feel good NewSpeak term that hides an insidious act of legislation to give even more power and control to our progressive overlords and their corporate masters. Stop watching Fake News and do some actual reading of the bills instead of main stream medias propaganda on the topic. If we don’t repeal NN, then the massive censorship already taking place online will only get worse. Ever heard of GAB?

    • #230891

      Yeah, GAB is an alternative social media, based out of Texas, that refuses to censor anything. And they are upset that their domain provider, who is private company not government a entity, has told them to take down a post they considered hate speech.

      https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/6/16259150/gab-ai-registrar-andrew-anglin-daily-stormer-crackdown

    • #230912

      A big problem about this issue, is the information is just now reaching the general population and there is almost no time for the gp to denounce this. By the time the people say a collective no, they will have already voted…

    • #230943

      They already voted!!!

    • #230971

      Thank God they made the right choice. Giving the internet over to the UN was never a good idea. Of course 44 had no good ideas so…

    • #231058

      TOOOOO MUCH FAUX NEWS

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