USA - Net Neutrality Day

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USA - Net Neutrality Day

Post by Morkonan » Wed, 12. Jul 17, 21:21

Today is the day that many companies and organizations have chosen to use to band together and send a message to the FCC in favor of supporting Net Neutrality and to communicate the Will of Netizen's opinions on the matter.

https://www.battleforthenet.com/ (Central link for the effort)

Mozilla's easy form to fill out, if you're interested: https://advocacy.mozilla.org/en-US/net- ... y-comments

This is important. Without continued support and protection of Net Neutrality, our experience of what the internet has to offer, all its information, news, data, movies, pics, games, websites and anything else at all you can do or access with it will be controlled by private, for-profit, internet providers selling your connection and your experience of the internet to the highest bidder.

It's the ultimate cattle-gate that they're trying to control and they have, as their advocate, the newly Trump-appointed head of the FCC who most definitely does not have the interests of the people in mind, here.

On Ajit Pai - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... n-internet

Most people have no clue what this is all about, so don't count on any uproar from the public to rush to defend Net Neutrality - Mom & Pop have no idea how their internet experience and future products or services will be effected by this.

Of course, once it happens, if it does, then I expect there will be some pretty ticked off people, but they'll have no choice by then, just like most people have no choice of ISPs due to protectionist practices overlooked by Congress because the telco lobby pushes millions of dollars into funding their campaigns...

Note: There are subtleties here involving the assignment of oversight to the FTC rather than the FCC, but these legal distinctions are extremely important and open up the options that ISPs desperately want in order to sell exclusive services that restrict user access and use of the 'net.

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Post by Stars_InTheirEyes » Thu, 13. Jul 17, 00:11

Its difficult to be too bothered about something I can't really have a say on. All these 'comment' things appear to be only for US citizens... I guess the rest of the world will just have to wait and be rescued as always ;)
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Post by Morkonan » Thu, 13. Jul 17, 00:43

Your Freedom Delivery has arrived! :)

Yes, the current issue only involves the USA. IIRC, the E.U. guarantees net neutrality by law.

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