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Americans Plan Massive 'Net Neutrality' Protest Next Week (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Guardian:
A coalition of activists, consumer groups and writers are calling on supporters to attend the next meeting of the Federal Communications Commission on September 26 in Washington DC. The next day, the protest will move to Capitol Hill, where people will meet legislators to express their concerns about an FCC proposal to rewrite the rules governing the internet... The activist groups are encouraging internet users to meet their lawmakers and tell them how a free and open internet is vital to their lives and their livelihoods...
"The FCC seems dead set on killing net neutrality, but they have to answer to Congress, and Congress has to answer to us, their constituents," said Evan Greer, campaign director for Fight for the Future, one of the protest's organisers. "With this day of advocacy, we're harnessing the power of the web to make it possible for ordinary internet users to meet directly with their senators and representatives to tell their stories, and make sure that lawmakers hear from the public, not just lobbyists for AT&T and Verizon," she said.
Monday Mozilla and the Internet Archive are also inviting the public to a free panel discussion featuring former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on ways the American public can act to preserve net neutrality.
"The FCC seems dead set on killing net neutrality, but they have to answer to Congress, and Congress has to answer to us, their constituents," said Evan Greer, campaign director for Fight for the Future, one of the protest's organisers. "With this day of advocacy, we're harnessing the power of the web to make it possible for ordinary internet users to meet directly with their senators and representatives to tell their stories, and make sure that lawmakers hear from the public, not just lobbyists for AT&T and Verizon," she said.
Monday Mozilla and the Internet Archive are also inviting the public to a free panel discussion featuring former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on ways the American public can act to preserve net neutrality.
No WE don't. Some of us realize the hypocrisy of this movement - and this article.
Americans are fanatic liberals, free market and stuff, so why aren't they doing another Internet Service Provider in order to hit the current ISP hard, and get back the net neutrality once for all?
Yes, it's hard to do. Can still be done. See other examples, such as https://www.ffdn.org/
"and Congress has to answer to us, their constituents,"
That's the funniest thing I've ever read...
Since most people haven't even heard about it. I learned about it reading this headline. It'll be massive like Trump's inauguration.
The rules on what's being called "Net neutrality" has never been in force. The internets the way they are today are how they've always been.
What we really need is to set our devices to operate in mesh network mode. Where is Google and Apple in this?
to hit DC
please.
Net neutrality legislation has "Hate Speech" clauses to allow censorship. It lumps "Hate Speech" in with child porn and copyright infringing content under the label "unlawful content". The legislation then says unlawful content is to be banned.
This sounds fine to only morons. Unlawful means "Not explicitly written in law", not illegal. Network neutrality legislation conflates "illegal" and "unlawful". This means the proposed laws grant FCC ban power on everything not explicitly written into law. That means new VOIP protocols and even podcasts are "unlawful" and subject to banning along with malware, child porn and "hate speech" (whatever the fuck that is).
Just like the PATRIOT Act "Network Neutrality" sounds great! It's got to be good for you! Have any of you fucking morons read and understood it? Do you know that EFF lawyers are compromised by authoritarian leftists who KNOW damn well the difference between unlawful and illegal, but seek to ban "hate speech" to silence political opposition? Maybe that's why they want Net Neutrality so much and don't raise giant red flags about the censorship and suppression powers it grants. No, that thought wouldn't cross your tiny little minds.
This is why people say we get the fucked up government we deserve: Because you "tech savy" morons haven't even read the shit you're promoting or protesting against either way. You got some fake news propaganda talking points about the "idea" of Net Neutrality, but IRL that's a fucking poison pill you damn morons!
As a foreigner I don't really care if the US domestic internet is at the mercy of one or two lazy rapacious corporations as long as the backbone remains solid and neutral, indeed it's a useful brake on US competitiveness.
Good luck with that.
This article is a barely disguised advertisement of the event. Guardian's "journalists" are making this story instead of merely reporting it....
Strangely enough, no one complains about this incident of foreign meddling in the America's political process.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Define "Massive" You keep using that word, and I'm not sure you know what it means.
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But I have to catch up on Facebook and Twitter, and whatever is the latest on Netflix.
"...they have to answer to Congress, and Congress has to answer to us, their constituents,"
Before you go spouting off regarding who answers to whom, remember just how much people don't give a shit about Rights anymore. Just last week, Millennial's confirmed they would gladly give up their Right to Vote in exchange for getting some college debt relief.
I am not against net neutrality per se. I am against Internet companies lying that they will provide me certain data rates, when in fact behind the scenes they are extorting a part of my Netflix fee, in essence making me pay more to them than the agreed-upon amount.
And no, hiding it in fine print, hoping people don't realize, is fraud.
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Donald TRUMP stole the elections because of RUSSIAN METALLING. The RUSSIANS literally hacked into America and changed voters' minds that would have voted for Clinton. This is unsettling and SICKENING. Net neutrality would have turned the DNC's tides toward America and kept this from happening. Unfortunately, people like Donald TRUMP depend on Big Internet for winning the elections rather than Main Street America.
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If anyone turns violent or has a millennial-style temper-tantrum meltdown, it'll be for nothing, a big waste of time. I myself would not take cying adult children seriously. Let's hope self-restraint is present along with the crowd, as it's a critical issue and I do not want numbnuts like that representing it on my behalf.
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>> Massive 'Net Neutrality' Protest Next Week
Are you sure? Usually we need a little more advance notice to do that for you.
>> ordinary internet users to meet directly with their senators and representatives to tell their stories
I don't think I've heard the phrase "internet users" in about 20 years. You might find that most people already in touch with their reps are already on the Internet, but sure, let's see what you dig up!
Since when do they need to answer to the public? And I do not mean where it is written when they should, but since when they actually do it and what the consequences are in reality when they don't do that.
Because what I now see is that there is no accountability. They are being re-elected, so there is no reason for them to listen.
It is like saying to kids they are not allowed to take a cookie and they do it. If there are no consequences, they will take another one. You can moan and yell and be upset and point at the house rules and say to wait till daddy comes home and put out the jumper cables, but as long as nothing happens and the kids know nothing will happen, it is just stress for you and more cookies for the kids.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Who modded this down? Mod parent up! Payed RUSSIAN trolls will not prevail here. Fake mod, REVEAL YOURSELF!
"they have to answer to Congress, and Congress has to answer to us" HAHAHAHHA what fantasy world do YOU live in? Once they get to DC, they could give crap about anyone. It's a little club...once you are invited in, and play along with their rules, you are there FOR LIFE, and become rich beyond your wildest dreams!
Don't ruin the internet for the rest of the world either, FCC.
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I thought the jugalos were a few days ago.
Saying "Americans plan" misrepresents these groups as being representative of "Americans". No, "Americans" are not planning massive Net Neutrality protests next week, a bunch of special interest groups are.
If Evan Greer ("a trans / genderqueer femme activist, singer/songwriter, and troublemaker based in Boston" in his own words) thinks he represents the "constituents" of most of America's representatives, he needs to look at some recent Congressional and state-level election results.
Americans Plan Massive 'Net Neutrality' Protest Next Week
Don't people normally protest against an action or idea? If they support a given cause, it's usually called a rally.
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I have a solution. The infrastructure "generally" belongs to the ISPs, right? I'm on board with personal freedom, so I tend to side with property owners to do with their property as they will. Yes, I know that would suck for the customers, but I have a solution for that...
Congress pass a law which allows privately held ISPs to filter and shape traffic however they will. Same bill would explicitly allow city/county/state/fed entities to setup their own infrastructure AND create a federal fund that these entities can apply for to help build out their own infrastructure. ISPs would be barred from making any changes for 5-10 years, during which time they pay a new tax into the "build out" fund.
Private property is private property, and no one should be forced to restrict their use of such. So we make the infrastructure public, and introduce serious competition into the market. :D
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
It's not that I don't think the ISPs should notbe given control of the internet. The ISPs have shown that they shouldn't be given control by their bad behaviour.
I'm just not so interested in fighting the ISPs so that Google can control the internet.
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The greatest trick of Google was proving to the world that it was not evil.
Net neutrality regulations simply setup government as the controller with open pockets to big business. Let the internet be free. If you don't like what a provider is doing, don't subscribe to them. Use your wallet to vote, not give government even more power.
I'll trade them net neutrality for dropping crap binding arbitration practices.
If you guys want to shill out for Facebook and Google, go right ahead. Truth is, the only reason big corps care about this at all is because they currently hold a monopoly on your browsing habits. Don't be a dummy, use a VPN, clear your cookies, and stop using Windows.
Because if they weren't ignorant they wouldn't be protesting FOR something that takes away so much freedom.
An extra force of 3000 police officers has been contracted. Antifa and BLM are both expected to counter protest.
An extra 724 puppies, 45,000 crayons, and 1500 blankies have been ordered and to be distributed to Berkeley University students to help cope with the stress,
What percentage of the population understands what net neutrality is and what percentage of those people are big enough activists to protest?
The FCC doesn't care about net neutrality, they were actually put in place (Ajit Pai specifically) to dismantle it.
The Trump administration is against it. Congress and the Senate are against it (majority, which is all they need). At some level you have to think that even the citizens who voted for Trump are against it, or don't care, or don't care enough to do anything about it.
I'm not against a protest, including a march and all that. However don't expect it to change anything. All the protesters are doing is registering their opinion. It's not nothing but it also won't be enough. Not unless they keep protesting and gather some additional political support.