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'Face Reality! We Need Net Neutrality!' Crowd Chants Across the Country (arstechnica.com)
ArsTechnica staff took to the streets in Washington DC, New York, and San Francisco to capture rallies in support for net neutrality, a week before the FCC is scheduled to take a historic vote rolling back network neutrality regulations. From their report: Protestors say those regulations, which were enacted by the Obama FCC in 2015, are crucial for protecting an open Internet. Organizers chose to hold most of the protests outside of Verizon cell phone stores. Ajit Pai, the FCC Chairman who is leading the agency's charge to repeal network neutrality, is a former Verizon lawyer, and Verizon has been a critic of the Obama network neutrality rules. The protest that got the most attention from FCC decision makers took place on Thursday evening in Washington DC. The FCC was holding a dinner event at the Hilton on Connecticut Avenue, just north of the city's Dupont Circle area. Protestors gathered on the street corner outside the hotel, waving pro-net neutrality posters to traffic, blaring chants, projecting pro-net neutrality messages on a building across the street, and telling personal stories about what net neutrality meant to them via a megaphone. The FCC's two Democratic commissioners also joined the demonstration, Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel. They both gave brief speeches to the protestors, rallying for the cause and discussing the importance of a neutral Internet.
"Internet"!
"Freedom"!
Then they are probably celebrating the REMOVAL of regulations over the internet, which means more freedom - not less. That is the strangest thing of modern days, the twisting of words to mean the opposite of what they really mean.
Anyone protesting for the government to restrict what ISP's can do with the internet, should be holding up a giant poster of the statue of liberty in bondage with a big smile on her face.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yeah, 22 million comments and counting, but all of them are fake. You've solved the case. "When Fascism comes to American, it will call itself Anti-Fascism." Not only can't you spell, that isn't the way anything works. You really are the special kind of stupid.