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Net Neutrality Comments Surge Past 1.7M, an All-Time Record For the FCC
An anonymous reader writes Following Wednesday's Internet Slowdown campaign, the Federal Communications Commission says it has now received a total of 1,750,435 comments on net neutrality, surpassing the approximately 1.4 million complaints it saw after the exposure of Janet Jackson's breast during Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004. Wednesday saw citizens submit more than 700,000 new comments to the FCC, and place more than 300,000 calls to the agency.
Man, when personal citizens' rights and powerful corporate interests align, amazing things can happen.
Now if we could only get powerful corporations to do the same thing on NSA overreach, CIA overreach, money in politiics, ...
If the majority of people would vote (at the ballot and with their wallets) for their own rational self-interests once in a while, and not what the silver-tongued TV sound bite sold to them, this would happen much more often. My cynical side tells me that few will ever appreciate the value of abstract principles in and of themselves, but the self-interest angle should be at least achievable.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
The number of corporate dollars will surpass the number of comments. I think the exchange rate of comments to dollars is pretty lopsided. Guess which way it it skews.
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
The FCC's job isn't to regulate the internet. They just shoved themselves into that role and idiots online signing petitions just gladly handed the role to them. As a result of that - and this stupid campaign - you're going to end up with metered internet access and more policing of "lawful content". Well done, fucktards. The internet won't be what it is, in another ten or fifteen years. Just remember to look back over your shoulder and blame yourselves for it.
1,750,435 names were added to the No-Fly List today.
All under the suspicion of plotting to vote incorrectly.
It is a lot to ignore, isn't it?
I observe that the prospect of having to pay extra for netflix has motivated more people to get up and take action than all of Snowden's revelations combined.