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One Day Left To Comment on the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quote The Verge: After four months of debate, the FCC is nearly ready to stop accepting feedback on its proposal to kill net neutrality. Final comments are due this Wednesday, August 30th, by end-of-day Eastern time. Once the comment period closes, the FCC will review the feedback it received and use it as guidance to revise its proposal, which if passed, would reverse the Title II classification that guaranteed net neutrality just two years ago. The commission is supposed to factor in all of the feedback it received when writing its final draft, so if you do have strong feelings on the matter, it's worth leaving a comment...
To leave a comment, you'll have to go to this site, click "+ Express," and then fill out the form it opens up to. Make sure you leave the proceeding number "17-108" in place, as that's what ties it to the net neutrality proposal. Also, be aware that everything filed is public, so others will be able to see your name and address.
"ISPs shouldn't be gatekeepers," wrote the EFF in a tweet sharing tips on the way to write effective comments. The number of comments matter because "the commission will very likely have to defend its changes in court," according to the article. And the commission has now received a record 22 million filings -- nearly six times the previous record of 3.7 million comments (when the net neutrality rules were first implemented).
To leave a comment, you'll have to go to this site, click "+ Express," and then fill out the form it opens up to. Make sure you leave the proceeding number "17-108" in place, as that's what ties it to the net neutrality proposal. Also, be aware that everything filed is public, so others will be able to see your name and address.
"ISPs shouldn't be gatekeepers," wrote the EFF in a tweet sharing tips on the way to write effective comments. The number of comments matter because "the commission will very likely have to defend its changes in court," according to the article. And the commission has now received a record 22 million filings -- nearly six times the previous record of 3.7 million comments (when the net neutrality rules were first implemented).
On their plan to kill a set of rules previously labeled as "Net Neutrality" that everyone agreed were ineffective at actually enforcing net neutrality anyway.
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Can't stop it. We have limited choices on who to elect, and they're all corrupt. There's no stopping any of this. Go ahead and comment into the black hole.
Actually we had a choice on whether to vote for a boring centrist who would have kept net neutrality, or for a racist fascist who would destroy the internet in a second if it would personally enrich himself, his business, or his donors.
The problem is that a lot of people are to stupid and ignorant to see the choice in front of them, so they stayed home, hiding behind smarmy nonsense like "we had limited choices"
Well now we have a president who proudly pardons racist law enforcement, telling them that their racist, illegal, unconstitutional tactics are just doing their jobs.
Yeah... such limited choices on how you could stand up and vote for America instead of rolling over for Russia's candidate while mumbling some smarmy nonsense on how "they are both bad"
- bit trollent
(Posted AC because pointing out the obvious has really taken a toll on my karma. The truth hurts I suppose...)
Everyone in the USA could comment for keeping net neutrality but Ajit Pai will do what ever his corporate masters tell him to do.
Yeah, because Hillary was going to kill it. /s
All you fucking tools pick a side, defend it to the death, and ignore that both sides are screwing you.
Trying to silence someone on a major platform is just as bad as Comcast doing the same with fast lanes.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Hillary showed no indication of killing it, and as someone one the progressive / centrist side she advocates for regulations which benefit Americans.
The problem is you hide behind smarmy nonsense like "both sides are screwing you", while you fail to vote for the candidate who would protect your interest, and thus empower the politicians that actually are harming you.
Worst of all, you empower America's traitors and enemies the most obnoxious, faux intellectual way possible.
Everyone on the planet could legitimately write a logical, thoughtful and grammatically correct comment in favor of Net Neutrality and it will not make any difference.
Ajit Pai does not care about you, your comments or Net Neutrality. The decision has already made, the lobbyists and corporations will get their way. They will get increased profits and the C Level executives will get higher bonuses and even more hookers and blow in return. The decision to kill Net Neutrality have enough support in the lower levels of Government and the Trupen-Führer will sign the order to kill Net Neutrality without hesitation.
You'll pay more for even less, you'll hit your cap sooner and you'll soon be paying additional feese to use the Internet to reach and of the things you want to actually see. Pai, Trump and pretty much everyone at all levels of Government do not care about you. As long as the rich get richer, who gives a damn about you peon. Just keep reminding yourself that it has to get worse before it gets better.
GoDaddy, DreamHost, and Network Solutions, in particular, have each deleted / suspended at least one or more domain names due to content they didn't like. Internet neutrality, in effect, is already dead regardless of what the FCC does. Mandating minimum speeds / treating all data equally doesn't do much good when companies can use their terms of service instead *selectively* against users. It's the not the U.S. government one need to be concerned about, but corporations with far too much power.
In my view, domain name registrars, dns providers, co-location facilities, ISPs, dominate email providers (Google, in particular), and network access points should all be regulated as common carrier, public utilities. They should not be permitted to arbitrarily shutoff one's service unless dictated to so by law.
Can states override this for their own state to have state-wide NN? To hell with red states! Let them nuke their telecom competition to dust like the suckers they are and be forced to purchase Teletubbies in HD in order to see NASCAR in HD. The #@$%'s probably secretly like Teletubbies anyhow.
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Only one side is screwing you, the side being paid shit tons of money by corporate interests diametrically opposed to what's good for people. Of course, that's nearly all democrats and republicans.
It's just a simple web form. It'd be child's play to astro turf it to kingdom come with anti Net Neutrality comments. Wasn't somebody already caught doing just that?
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We need net neutrality. Mr. Pai appears to be an idiot but I'd guess he is just in it for himself.
Except that democrats enacted net neutrality, and republicans are taking it away.
You fucking moron.
Akamai State of the Internet Report 2017Q1 has United States average (IPv4) home Internet connection speed at 18.7 Mbps, up 22% year-on-year.
Your feedback isn't being taken into consideration anyways.
Rich crooks do whatever they want, regardless of your opinion.
Kill it with fire. Bury it in a shallow grave.
I went and let the FCC know that I appreciate them taking a hands off approach. We don't need idiots in government trying to regulate ISPs. All you useful idiots that think this is about your Netflix account are too stupid to have an opinion on Net Neutrality.
One more day to be ignored by my government.
Oh, wait. That's just like any other day now.
Ajit has pretended to listen to the people, but he's already been paid. His biggest problem now is how to phrase "90% of the American public think you suck, but you're gonna suck anyway". We need independent courts to look this kind of corruption and send the fuckers responsible to prison. Ajit, you deserve 5-10 years, you asshole.
One would naturally have to wonder who exactly is paying for all these "independent" comments that support so-called net neutrality. Anyone who leeves a comment on the FCC site is probably going to be subject to some kind of investigation, I would imagine. And for anyone concerned about how antifa and globalists have gotten together so effectively, you will want to make a donation today to the NRA and the Trump 2020 campaigns to fight the good fight.
We have to vote agaisn't our own self interests as those guys on AM radio and Fox make seem voting for anyone who favors us as pretty scary. If we give them some more free money they will be nice to us.
Our side has been actually doing something about it.
Lots of Republican congress seats are coming up in 2018, and many of them realize that if they don't get off their butts and do something, they're going to be voted out. There's a mood running through the population right now to that specific effect: people are saying "do something or we'll kick your butt to the curb in next year's elections".
Many Republicans are worried that they'll lose to a challenger in the upcoming primary if they don't start doing things.
Some are planning to use the upcoming debt-limit deadline (end of Sept) to force the Democrats to fund building the wall(*).
And Trump is being selective with his support for certain campaigns, with the result that not having POTUS support makes it increasingly difficult to win reelection. Karma for RINOs.
All these things are putting pressure on Republicans to start making decisions that favour the American people.
You might try asking your side to do that as well. I'd *love* to see the two sides compete for the role of "best leadership".
Here's a hint: marketing tag-lines such as "a better deal" without specific policies to back them up simply won't work.
(*) But with Hurricane Harvey in Texas there's talk of putting that off a few months so that the government doesn't shut down and leave Texas in the lurch.
Unless you're running a website that some people don't approve of.
Is there really no open source alternative to hard wiring everyone together via ISPs?
This reminds me of the time Trump had dinner with Mitt Romney to "interview" him for the Secretary of State job. Now everybody knew Trump wasn't going to hire his enemy Romney. But Trump listened. Acted like he gave a shit. It was all for show of course, and to humiliate Romney. In the end he selected his buddy Rex Tillerson.
The FCC, which is now majority Republican fascist owned, will not care one bit that nearly all the 22+ million comments say don't repeal net neutrality. The comments will have no influence whatsoever on the FCC decision. You know that, I know that. Why go through with this farce?
The only way to fix this is to never ever vote for the once-great (like 150 years ago, once) Republican party. Convince your friends and everyone you know.
We can finally pressure the corporations to block all the racist websites. Especially the ones under the guise of "nationalism" and "southern heritage." Once in a while the idiocy of the Republicans can bite themselves in the ass.
Net Neutrality legislation is not what you're told it is. Face it: You have not read and understood the legislation. The legislation is not the idea of "packet equality", it has vast censorship clauses and should be thrown out.
Net Neutrality is aimed to restrict technological innovation and 1st amendment rights by conflating Unlawful with Illegal. It is not illegal for me to walk backwards and sing the alphabet song, but it is unlawful for me to do so, because there is no law explicitly permitting me to do so. Net Neutrality legislation has grouped "illegal content" such as child porn with "unlawful content" (anything not explicitly permitted, such as new encryption or VOIP protocols or podcasts), and makes it legal to censor anything that is "unlawful content".
Pro-net neutrality folks have been duped. Stop trusting corrupt media and actually READ. Don't trust the compromised EFF to give you a summary, it's not necessary. They're lawyers, they should know the difference between unlawful and illegal, but they have not said a damn thing about it. I suspect they're full of leftists that would LOVE to censor the right under Network Neutrality "hate speech" regulations, but your speech goes next.
TL;DR: News flash: The PATRIOT Act is unpatriotic. Net Neutrality is anything but neutral; It gives government a much desired censorship control over the Internet.
You can shit on some of the people some of the time, you can shit on some of the people all of the time and you can shit on all of the people some of the time, but you can't shit on all of the people all of the time.
You don't have to wonder, if you realize those are orthogonal issues. You see, hosting content on the Internet costs money, and it's not one of those universal government services. Therefore you are paying some private individual for this. Private individuals can generally conduct business as they choose within the bounds of the law. Businesses typically are able to refuse service for any reason, with the exception being if this decision is based on the customer's race, religion, sex, nationality, etc. So far, I don't believe anyone is claiming Nazism as a religion, and Nazis are not otherwise members of a protected class. The legal situation is pretty clear, barring motivated reasoning.
Net neutrality on the other hand involves not prioritizing traffic based on endpoint. So one would not be able to de-prioritize traffic to Nazi websites based on these rules. To the degree that there has been any unfair prioritization, this has been based on business concerns and not the content itself. Thus while there is a potential avenue for a First Amendment claim, the actual issue being addressed by these rules is monopoly abuse.
Nazis deserve all of the protections afforded to them by law, and not a damn thing more. In advocating genocide, you give up the protections afforded to you by common human decency. Freedom of speech does not imply freedom from consequences: if what you say makes people want to exercise their freedom not to associate with you, that's kinda a personal problem.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
All this talk about open internet, ISPs not acting as gatekeepers, corporations not controlling the internet, etc. is a bit thin when people are openly celebrating corporations kicking websites off the internet with little notice for offensive (very offensive in these cases) content after having collected money from them for years.
You can abhor places like the dailystormer and stormfront, while also disagreeing with what happened to them, how it happened, and pointing out that this bodes very badly for an open, free internet.
Posting as AC due to mod.
I seem to recall someone posting a rather technical argument about the interplay between title 2 and NN, saying that title 2 actually needs to go in order for something else to happen (I seem to recall it being along the lines of "who pays for what traffic"). Anybody remember that one? Could anyone provide details?
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