We busted our asses to put those net neutrality protections in place, and now we need to get off our asses in order to protect what we accomplished.Next time someone tries to tell you that the internet was fine without #NetNeutrality and it going away will won't change anything just remind them of this... pic.twitter.com/YHJMiWEBSe
— Barnacules Nerdgasm (@Barnacules) November 24, 2017
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United States corporations have NEVER been able to “police” themselves. EVER. When profit is involved, it is always the foxes versus the chickens. Net Neutrality guarded the henhouse.
ReplyDeleteBTW the FCC is being SUED for failing to release all of the comments they received regarding Net Neutrality. Can you guess why?
I believe someone from the FCC also said they didn’t pay much attention to the comments. (Yeah, just the providers and lobbyists. Wanna bet?)
The only thing that is going to save Net Neutrality is if Congress writes and passes a BILL making Net Neutrality a LAW. Then the FCC can’t do squat. As long as it is a regulation, Trump and his Deplorables can continue to fuck with it like they are fucking with the regulations of every other Federal agency.
These aren’t regulations. They are PROTECTIONS. Like the Consumer Financial PROTECTION Bureau that Trump is now trying to dismantle.
Doug Jones winning is important. It is THE most important election to date.
The only way to stop the destruction of what little democracy we have left is to make sure the GOP does not have a majority in both houses and we can’t wait until 2018.
I don’t remember life being hard before net neutrality. Also My best years were 1998-2011.
ReplyDeleteHi, Sergei.
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ReplyDeleteMy first battle for the Resistance. I’m up in the Lake Tahoe area for a Thanksgiving vacation. The hotel I’m staying at has breakfast each morning. The past two I went downstairs early since I’m a morning person and the tv in the dining area was tuned to the Weather Channel. Like clockwork some old lady would come up and grab the tv remove and change the channel to Faux Noise. This morning I came down and grabbed some food and went over to the tv and snagged the remote. The old woman came up to the tv and couldn’t find the remote. I told her I had it and I didn’t want to listen to the bs on Faux. She can take her coffee and her MAGA nonsense back to her room and I have normal blood pressure once again.
Good for you! Bet her whole face came to a point.
DeleteExcellent.
DeleteToo bad you didn’t get a pick of her face when you told her.
There needs to be a lot more of that going on. Democrats are too fucking polite.
Used to watch some barnacle videos on the Utoobz, until he revealed his fascination with guns.
ReplyDeleteNOT the usual fascination either.
That was enough. I was done.
Also, too, wouldn't you know, he had a strange fascination with knives also - and not for turkey carving if ya know what I mean.
CRAP! Now I have THAT woman's voice from the turkey slaughter vid going through my head!
The sing-song word salad, it burns, it burns!
"The man behind this move is Ajit Pai, the chairman of the FCC, who took up his post on January 23, three days after Donald J. Trump moved into the White House. In March, Trump said that Pai would be renominated to serve an additional five years as FCC chairman, and the Senate confirmed this term in October.
ReplyDeleteJust a little over a month after his confirmation, Pai is making moves to dismantle freedom in America. (It’s worth noting that Pai previously worked as associate general counsel for Verizon Communications, one of the companies that would benefit greatly if his plan is pushed forward. It’s also worth noting that FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has spoken out against Pai’s plan.)"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-trump-will-turn-americas-open-internet-into-an-ugly-version-of-chinas
I found a website that lets you check to see if your name was put on the FCC website comments section without your knowledge, and yes it was.
ReplyDeleteTry it for yourself:
https://www.comcastroturf.com/
It pissed me off royally when I found that my name was on their pro-comments section, so I sent them an anti-net neutrality comment.
MFrs.
Don’t forget. They discouranged people from commenting by posting ALL of their contact data online. Violating their privacy.
DeleteWell, that got complicated quick; I meant that I am pro-net neutrality and anti-the FCC position.
ReplyDeleteWanna bet the Russian trolls are filling the comment section with bogus comments.
ReplyDeleteHow's it in the homeland. Cold still? Ha.
DeleteThey already have. That’s why the FCC won’t release the comments to requests via Freedom of Information Act. They’re being sued because of it.
Deletehttps://techcrunch.com/2017/11/21/new-york-attorney-general-fcc-fake-net-neutrality-comments/
ReplyDelete"“In an era where foreign governments have indisputably tried to use the internet and social media to influence our elections, federal and state governments should be working together to ensure that malevolent actors cannot subvert our administrative agencies’ decision-making processes,” "
There’s nothing to subvert here. Pai was going to do this from day one and no amount of comments against it were going to have any influence. He as much as said it.
Deletehttps://georgelakoff.com/2017/11/26/protect-internet-freedom/
ReplyDelete"I don’t like the term Net Neutrality because it obscures what’s really at stake: FREEDOM. Our freedom to access the information and resources we need to keep our democracy healthy is under threat. Yet, Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission – led by former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai – seek to hand our Internet over to private corporations.
But the Internet is a public resource that belongs to the People. That’s because the Internet was developed by our federal government in the 1960s and 1970s. The idea was to “build robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks.” The result was the Internet, which allows me to type these words on my laptop and share them with all of you immediately.
The US government funded the research and technology to create the Internet. This means American taxpayers paid for it. So, if the Internet belongs to anyone, it should belong to Citizens, not corporate fat cats.
According to Scientific American: “In truth, no private company would have been capable of developing a project like the Internet, which required years of R&D efforts spread out over scores of far-flung agencies, and which began to take off only after decades of investment. Visionary infrastructure projects such as this are part of what has allowed our economy to grow so much in the past century.”"
Corporations are trying to privatize and profit off of something paid for and essentially OWNED by the American Taxpayer.
"The Internet belongs to us. But we have to fight for it right now, or we may lose it. There’s ample evidence that fake bots have flooded the Federal Communications Commission’s inbox with over a million fake comments supporting corporate control of the Internet. The corporations are working hard to take away your Internet freedom. It’s time to make sure the real voices of American citizens are heard on this matter!"
"All private profit depends on public resources – roads, bridges, ports, telecommunications, and the Internet. We must never hand public resources over to private corporations."
Just because their profits depend on it doesn't mean we have to hand it over to them to control.
We mustn't let the tax bill, health care, CFPB, National Monuments, Roy Moore, etc. distract us from hammering our representatives about net neutrality and how they are going to lose our votes if they allow net neutrality to be handed over to private corporations.