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[comic-writer-blog]

Net Neutrality

So, who here likes the internet? All of you it seems. Well I'm sorry to say but guess what, the grinch is coming early to not only steal Christmas but also to murder the internet.

*enter dramatic music*

Now I know a lot of you are saying that this is the teririble and that this means that the government is selling out...

Which it is.

Now usually I'm not the one to get political and choose one side, being a moderate, but WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK IS WRONG WITH YOU AJIT PAI?! There are people who can't even afford to wash their cloths, Who use the internet on a daily basis, and you expect that they can just make money out of thin air. Guess what? He actually used to be a lawyer for Verizon.

The argument for the repeal of Net Neutrality is that the repeal will propmote a more free internet and promote the free market. Well that maybe true, but only for the jerkwads in the telecommunications industry. Orwellian logic is what he's trying to back it. Watch out or the thought police will bombard you with ads.

Now Net Neutrality hasn't always existed and we got along fine without it, but when the law was passed for Net Neutrality regulations that brought up the idea that the Telecommunications guys could have charged us extra to put us in fast lanes or banned sites that slander their name, not in the illegal but in the opinion way. Now that the idea that fast lanes and slow lanes can be created is out in the public, you can bet your bottom dollar that all of the big name internet service providers will charge you extra to get on YouTube. Well that's assuming that you still have a bottom dollar after the repeal.

Now the FCC has gone to shit but congress certainly wouldn't allow this right? Wrong, over 250 Senators and Reps from the House of Represntatives have sold their votes to Verizon or Comcast or AT&T or any other ISP.

So what are we going to do?

Buy the votes back? Move to Canada? Stop using internet if it has to come to that?

Sure, do those things, but all I see is a war already lost. Ajit Pai is trying to put a price on freedom of thought, information, speech, entertainment in the land of the free. Art will be censored, voices of change will be muffled, and information will come at a price whilst everything else may be straight up banned.

If the repeal is passed, America will have no longer be the land of the free. Good bye internet. It was nice knowing you.

[wanderlustgrrrlmusic-blog]

What we lose when we lose net neutrality

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[tqpannie]

The internet was amazing. I will miss fan fiction,group chats, and gathering with like minded people to push forth change globally. It made a big world smaller. #ripinternet

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[dyuzu]

okay then

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[daviddeeey-blog]

Get on the phones, and don't let go of your representatives in Washington till they promise to inact legislation saving Net Neutrality! Also, check out @defiantnet for more tips. #RIPinternet #savethenet #savenetneutrality #netneutrality

[coreyblingbling]

BREAKING ALERT: In an unfortunate 3-2 vote, the FCC votes to repeal #NetNeutrality, enraging millions of internet users. #RIPInternet

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[meckerkopf]

Internet, Dinge oder Beides?

„Internet der Dinge“? Wie wäre es erst mal mit Internet? Dinge gibt es schon länger. Der Netzausbau in Deutschland ist echt schwach!

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[markruffalo]

Send flowers to the FCC and push Congress to stop the FCC from ending #NetNeutrality on December 14th. #RIPinternet

[mikemortgage]

How ‘net neutrality’ became a hot-button issue

NEW YORK — For a fundamentally nerdy subject, net neutrality is pushing a lot of political buttons.

The latest salvo is over a California law that restores a ban on cable, wireless and other broadband providers from impeding people’s ability to use their favourite apps and services. The federal government had rescinded that ban, and the Trump administration is seeking to block California’s effort as an imposition on federal prerogatives.

Though net neutrality started off more than a decade ago as an insight into how to make networks work most efficiently, it has taken on much larger social and political dimensions lately. The issue has emerged as an anti-monopoly rallying point and even a focus for “resistance” to the Trump administration.

“Any time the cable companies and the Trump administration are on one side, it looks good for companies to be on the other side,” Boston Law School professor Daniel Lyons said.

But the idea hasn’t always been political or partisan. Net neutrality traces back to an engineering maxim called the “end-to-end principle,” a self-regulating network that put control in the hands of end users rather than a central authority. Traditional cable-TV services, for instance, required special equipment and controlled what channels are shown on TV. With an end-to-end network like the internet, the types of equipment, apps, articles and video services permitted are limited only to imagination.

And the internet subsequently grew like nobody’s business — largely because it wasn’t anyone’s business.

But as internet use expanded, so did the power of the big companies that offer internet service to the masses. It became clear that they could, and sometimes would, restrict what people did. The Associated Press found in 2007 that Comcast was blocking or slowing down some file-sharing. AT&T blocked Skype and other internet-calling services on the iPhone until 2009.

Law professor Tim Wu, now at Columbia University, coined the term “net neutrality” in 2003 to argue for government rules that would prevent big internet providers from discriminating against technology and services that clashed with other aspects of their business. Allowing such discrimination, he reasoned, would choke off innovation.

Big telecommunications companies, on the other hand, argue that they should be able to control the pipes they built and owned.

The Federal Communications Commission subscribed to the principle of net neutrality for over a decade and enshrined that as specific rules in 2015 under chairman Tom Wheeler, an Obama appointee. Among the rules: Broadband companies couldn’t block websites and apps of their choosing. Nor could they charge Netflix and other video services extra to reach viewers more smoothly.

Once President Donald Trump took office, net neutrality became one of his first targets as part of broader government deregulation. The FCC chairman he appointed, Ajit Pai, made rollback a top priority.

And thus net neutrality became increasingly political. As a vote loomed for months, the once-obscure concept was debated endlessly on talk shows and online chats. Big-time Hollywood producer Shonda Rhimes tweeted a link to a story about saving net-neutrality on her lifestyle website. Actor Mark Ruffalo urged people to contact members of Congress by tweeting, “Long live cute dog videos on YouTube! #RIPinternet.”

The debate created strange bedfellows: Support for net neutrality comes from many of the same people who are also critical of the data-sucking tech giants who benefit from it.

Yet on net neutrality, these tech companies got to be the “good guy,” siding on the side of the younger “digital first” generation and consumer groups calling for more protection. No matter that these companies are keeping their own business interests at heart, as a net-neutrality rollback could mean higher costs for access to the “pipes.”

Politicians glommed on to the debate to appear consumer friendly.

“No politician will ever lose votes by supporting net neutrality,” said Gus Hurwitz, law professor at the University of Nebraska and a member of the conservative group The Federalist Society. “It’s an ill-defined term that voters don’t really understand other than that it is a scary concept they know they don’t want to lose.”

Meanwhile, ISPs haven’t done themselves any favours in appealing to the consumer. They’ve long had a reputation for bad service and high prices. Unlike the high-profile support for net neutrality, the opposition was limited to behind-the-scenes lobbying.

Nonetheless, the FCC rolled back the net-neutrality rules last December on a 3-2 party-line vote. The decision took effect in June.

The fight is likely to drag on.

Several tech companies including Mozilla and Vimeo are challenging the FCC’s rollback decision in a federal appeals court. That’s separate from the challenge to the California law, which is on hold until the tech companies’ lawsuit is resolved. Oral arguments in the tech companies’ case are expected in February.

Oregon, Washington and Vermont have also approved legislation related to net neutrality.

And a Democratic takeover of the House in Tuesday’s midterm elections could revive efforts to enact net neutrality into federal law, though Trump would likely veto any such attempts.

“Net neutrality is only the fifth round of a 12-round boxing match,” Wedbush Securities Managing Director Dan Ives said.

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