Posted on 02/24/2015 4:39:19 PM PST by Crazieman
WASHINGTON — Last April, a dozen New York-based Internet companies gathered in the Flatiron Building boardroom of the social media website Tumblr to hear dire warnings that broadband providers were about to get the right to charge for the fastest speeds on the web.
The implication: If they didn’t pay up, they would be stuck in the slow lane.
What followed has been the longest, most sustained campaign of Internet activism in history, one that the little guys appear to have won. On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote to regulate the Internet as a public good. On Tuesday, Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, all but surrendered on efforts to overturn the coming ruling, conceding Democrats are lining up with President Obama in favor of the F.C.C.
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By this time next year, or maybe the year after that, that post will be something that will get you arrested.
Well, don't worry, actually. You will never read the news in the first place, so you won't be able to make the post.
2016 will solve nothing.
You are correct, American born;)
You are correct.
Thanks!!!
I’ve always thought we need to emphasize our “American-ness” more, and our ancestral roots less.
Words mean things; and the order in which we say and use words means things too.
Well, it is not Net Neutrality in the Swiss term of the word, but a definite war aiming to equalize the bandwidth advertisement by siding for “minorities” leftist fraud products, a complete government gender and race division justifying rationing of so called “allied” and conspiring non minorities.
Since Soros is behind it and is for a totalitarian view of Open Society and against Laissez Faire, the ultimate aim is campaign finance and information controls, forcing us into 501c type abuse.
Will the American people have their phone lines shut off? It is entirely possible that we will be treated worse than Chinese hackers, or such hackers will be facilitated.
Great job. Did you hit Kirk, too?
Thune denies:
Yet, just taking up “net neutrality” is a stupid issue. Leave the Internet government free and watch the innovation.
Where’s the problem anyhow? It’s just a made up issue.
I hear ya, I hear ya
Or compromised.
No, the media is brilliant. They are destroying and allowing to be destroyed any dissenting voices.
It will not occur right away. But legislation will quickly be introduced... oh, I'm sorry, we don't do that any more. Obama will quickly sign an Executive Order that will ban Hate Speech and Terrorism Speech.
The definition of those will be: Any criticism of Muslims. Any criticism of gays. Any criticism of the Orwellian Police State. Distribution of any news not coming from the Communist Propaganda Organs of CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the NYT, the WP, or the LAT. Blockages of the often-insightful news coming from England.
The FCC will be granted SWAT teams, and they will be used to kill and arrest anyone who dissents from the official propaganda line. And you know what? You will never hear about those raids. That will be forbidden news, too.
We are now to be 100% just like the Soviet Union, in absolutely every way.
Matt, I believe it has just become time for you to pull the plug and get on the escape pod. Look for a nicer country, if you can find it.
Within a year. Maybe two.
No more anonymity means they can find you if you post something they don't like.
Also, anything political will be treated as a campaign contribution and must be reported to the FEC.
Next, if it's a utility then we can't have anonymous people using it, just like how phone, water, and electricity users are not anonymous. Ignore the fact that you are not really an anonymous user of the utility because your ISP knows you and bills you each month. It's just the traffic content that is anonymous, but the usage is paid for.
And finally, if anonymity is to be banned, then this will also ban all personal encryption and VPN services that spoof internet traffic, with the possible exception of business telecommuting and online banking and stock trading traffic, but only if decryption keys are registered with the government.
That's my prediction, anyway.
-PJ
Big money likes liberty for itself. A free market in Internet makes trouble for them. We can find out too much. I suspect that they, as wealthy elites, can buy a lot of news stories.
You have made a very shallow observation
They still lack the raw power to absolutely prevail. They need 60 votes. If you re unable to see that you are not looking
I know it’s PC to bitch and moan, even if the bitching and moaning is not justified.
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