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Major Websites Are Planning a 'Day of Action' To Block Repeal of Net Neutrality (medium.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Fight for the Future, a nonprofit advocacy group concerned with digital rights, has posted to medium today, revealing that many major websites, online communities, and internet users are planning a "day of action" focused on finding the final vote needed to pass the Congressional Review Act (CRA). "50 Senators have already come out in support of the CRA, which would completely overturn the FCC's December 14 decision and restore net neutrality protections," the post reads. "Several Senators have indicated that they are considering becoming the 51st vote we need to win, but they're under huge pressure from telecom lobbyists. Only a massive burst of energy from the internet will get them to move."
The day of action is scheduled for February 27, and participants include Tumblr, Etsy, Vimeo, Medium, Namecheap, Imgur, Sonos, and DuckDuckGo. "Internet users will be encouraged to sound the alarm on social media and sign up to receive alerts with their lawmaker's position on net neutrality and prompts to take action on the big day, while websites, subreddits, and online communities will display prominent alerts driving phone calls, emails, and tweets to Senators and Representatives calling on them to pass the CRA." The post notes that we're faced with an uphill battle as the fight will elevate to the House of Representatives if the CRA can pass the Senate. From there it will go to the President's desk.
The day of action is scheduled for February 27, and participants include Tumblr, Etsy, Vimeo, Medium, Namecheap, Imgur, Sonos, and DuckDuckGo. "Internet users will be encouraged to sound the alarm on social media and sign up to receive alerts with their lawmaker's position on net neutrality and prompts to take action on the big day, while websites, subreddits, and online communities will display prominent alerts driving phone calls, emails, and tweets to Senators and Representatives calling on them to pass the CRA." The post notes that we're faced with an uphill battle as the fight will elevate to the House of Representatives if the CRA can pass the Senate. From there it will go to the President's desk.
for the mess we have now. It's a load of Ajit.
I personally am concerned when all these companies seem so concerned about net neutrality. Usually companies only are this concerned when they have some direct benefit from its outcome. Yeah, it sounds like their fighting a noble cause but something is amiss.
making the perpetrators lives hell? If not, this is just more lip service.
How about this for action, publish the browsing data of every facility that is politically associated, until they grasp the idea that we need data highways that are as free and open as I-80.
the current administration has ignored everything thrown at them with regards to net neutrality. They've used obviously false & spam comments as proof that people support repeal. They've lied about cable companies expanding. They just plain don't care what anyone thinks.
The thing is, NN is small potatoes to most people. It's gonna mean $10-$20 month out of their pockets for their cable bill, if that. 99% of Americans are never going to start an internet business to compete with established players. They don't have the capital, the skills or the time & energy. For most Americans surviving is all they can do. 40% of us don't have $1k in the bank.
I've said it before and will say it again, if NN is important to you then you have to listen to issues that are important to the rest of Americans. You need to get them health care, jobs and education. One they've taken care of survival and other more pressing concerns then you can hit them up to support your pet freedom project.
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"Several Senators have indicated that they are considering becoming the 51st vote we need to win, but they're under huge pressure from telecom lobbyists."
Jesus.
"We want to do what we know is the right thing, but we can't just say no to a pile of money for doing what we know is the wrong thing!"
This country is so fucked up.
...what a joke. When are people going to stop being fools? Net Neutrality is exactly the opposite of what its' moniker implies. I task anyone to tell me one thing that changed for the better in regards to the Internet since 2015 (when Net Neutrality took effect). The truth is, the Internet went downhill from there. People! Do some research and stop relying on drive-by and social media to decide what you should think about anything. Use your brain...don't be a cow.
Trump will veto any action to overturn Pai... and I don't think a 2/3rds majority to support such action is likely. Say goodbye to Net Neutrality until Trump is gone.
Yawn.
Nobody cares. Turn your stupid website off. We'll go play video games. You're not that important.
Even if the 51st vote is found, then it heads to the House where it will most likely die. If by some miracle the house passes it, it will go to President Trump and he will surely veto it.
So I guess everyone involved can feel good they did something, but I can't see how this will change the decision on NN.
It only covered the bottom 3 MEDIA layers of the OSI model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model#Description_of_OSI_layers/ but not content providers up in the FINAL TOP layer(s)!
Thus, so they could censor or delete anything they don't like & promote their own BULLSHIT instead - yes, that includes /. or Google, YouTube + FakeBook!
* Under OLD "net neutrality", content providers (like /., facebook, YouTube + google) are notorious for this to promote "their own agenda"!
(Especially these latter 2 ala facebook's "political arm" of bots trolling for themhttps://politics.slashdot.org/story/17/12/21/2033245/how-facebooks-political-unit-enables-the-dark-art-of-digital-propaganda/ ).
I am ALL for everyone travelling @ the SAME EQUAL SPEED based on what you pay your ISP for - that's potentially NOW not the case.
It was abused before too:
E.G. - Comcast throttled NetFlix vs. THEIR COMPETING OFFERING to outcompete it - THAT IS LAME, LOW & WRONG (f'ing cheating is more like it).
(As /. does for OpenSORES, Google YouTube or Facebook + SJW material more often than not as the content here vs. the past being solely on tech almost)
&
THIS YEAR, whipslash & his moderators here have been DELETING POSTS https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11509041&cid=55776597/ when it's widely KNOWN & SAID w/ SLASHDOT BRAGGING "but, But, BUT... /. doesn't DELETE posts" - bullshit. /. is NOT what it once was... period.
Now, I am also ALL for everyone being able to FREELY SPEAK (by all means)!
HOWEVER as you can see with proofs above?
"The downmod OR delete truncheon gets used in lieu of conversation" where discussion, facts & logic would ultimately triumph otherwise!
(No, instead, the "banhammer" is used! That's bullshit & denies freedom of speech (a basic principle of U.S. Society + an inalienable right & THEY ARE HOSTED IN THE USA)).
APK
P.S.=> The OLD net neutrality was done by some SNEAKY BASTARDS using 1/2 truths & NOT telling ALL THE FACTS of how it worked - now, above, YOU HAVE FACTS & SOLID VERIFIABLE UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE of how it actually "worked" (worked against you to promote bogus agendas unfairly is more like it)... apk
They're perfectly willing to showboat for something pushed out by the last president, but unwilling to make it the law of the land in the normal "write a bill, pass it by both house and senate, and get the president to sign it".
If they did that, what the FCC chairperson of the week says does not matter. They would have to implement the law.
Of course no one would rate shape traffic that day.
Reddit was covered in net neutrality spam for days, and people have already forgotten about it. People don't remember the SOPA protests either, which was only effective because of Wikipedia, which is now too embroiled by admin abuse to be effective.
Tumblr, Etsy, Vimeo, Medium, Namecheap, Imgur, Sonos, and DuckDuckGo
Those are not "major web sites". This is a list of major web sites. Only one of those is even on the list, and it clocks in at #47.
I'd wager the average dude on the street hasn't heard of a single one of those sites.
Now if you can get Google, Facebook, or Youtube to join, then maybe somebody will notice. You know, the kind of sites you can mention to a random stranger on the street and they know what you're talking about.
Stop playing with yourselves. You ain't gonna do shit.
Is not putting a bullet into that 96 percent of American trash, and then with the extra space and free reign, finishing off the one percent so the 3 remaining percent can repopulate the country.
Fuck a donkey, then fuck an elephant, then fuck the rich assholes jerking it because they need hardcore fetish porn to get off.
Only then will we have the America we the people deserve.
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We don't have to "think" about the definition of net neutrality. We have had a perfectly good one for over a decade:
https://www.eff.org/issues/net...
So maybe you should tell us what you think it is.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Keep the NN rules so the existing big brand monopolies and their paper insulated NN networks can stay in place?
All the federal NN rules did was further protect a few part political connected monopoly telcos and their POTS networks.
Let the innovative private sector move in and create some really great new networks all over the USA.
With no competition and protective federal NN rules nothing is upgraded by the few NN network monopoly telcos.
Someday a wealthy walled community, city, town can build its own new community broadband and bring in new ISP.
Competition at last.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I have been pondering this for a while. How can the electrons travelling inside the electronics of a router know and treat individual bits inside its memory, cpu, mainboard and network card understand which electron belongs to what network session and then balance the flows so each and every session is exactly equal? That is ultimately what we are discussing here. Writing laws is one thing, but to then putting the onus on the electronics companies to ensure all electrons are treated equally reminds me of the tale of King Canute and his quest to control nature.
With the recent Intel Sceptre/Meltdown and related speculative computing technology security flaws and ramifications of that design, this would effectively end Intel and all networking and computing making everyone a criminal. Quite the chilling effect. We might as well go back to sending letters.
Could 'net neutrality' is better suited to describe the practice of not limiting the free speech of anyone who is not solely promoting "White Left" ideas? Only recently Harvard labelled alt-media, like /., fake news and cannot be trusted - yet we're all still here. Google has admitted in court documents they have a department dedicated to demoting non-"White Left" ideas off the internet, what can we do to stop that and keep alt-media like /. alive?
Hahahah shut the fuck up you paid shill. Jesus christ i can't believe i spent all my mod points before seeing your post.
Even fucking comcast of all places has *some* support of net neturality. Except for the parts they don't like, naturally.
It's obvious you're not a real person. Why the fuck are you guys posting on slashdot of all places though? This place is just a clubhouse for a few old nerds these days.
Anyone who have done research on net neutrality knows it should be repealed. It is a turd with perfume and a bow, it can be made to look and smell good, but it is still a turd.
Had just started using DuckDuckgo, but looks like I have to find a different search engine.
are promising them jobs. Good jobs. They're gonna send the Mexicans who took their jobs packing, and punish the companies who outsource jobs. And not just any jobs. Good jobs. The kind they can do. The kind that paid their pappy and their grandpappy enough for a nice house a car and a family.
Meanwhile the folks yelling about NN are promising $10-$20 off your cable bill. Oh, I suppose they also said they'd knock a few points off your kid's student loans. Seriously, that's all I heard from the other side in the last election. It's a whole lot of stuff they either can live without, don't care about or is just plain out of reach. It's meaningless to them.
Americans want populism. That's why Trump won and why Bernie is the most popular politician in America.
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where it counts. If they're concentrated in swing states then it might as well be most people. And they are.
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Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion & Spain 1492 (Christopher Columbus the jew https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22C... sailed to the US for them to create it), France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Maria Abramovic satanist spirit cooker pal of Hillary Clinton the Voodoo queen is a jew https://www.google.com/search?...
Like Hillary Clinton's mentor Saul Alinsky author of rules for radicals book dedicated to Lucifer
"Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer â" so I wasnâ(TM)t lying â" and we are his chosen people. Lucifer is very much aliveâ Harold Rosenthal http://www.thetruthseeker.co.u...
Jewish rabbi openly admits to satan worship use white children's blood they kill for passover bread, infiltrating and subverting the catholic church, creating the Jesuit order https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Barbara Spectre, a jew, tells everyone it's jews orchestrating the muslim migrant problem in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ/ . No migrant raping of women in Poland. Tons in Sweden. Do the math. Use common-sense. This is to get muslims and other goyim/gentiles to wipe one another out as incompatible cultures that will clash and always have.
Rabbi A. Finkelstein ADMITS their greatest enemies are ARABS and WHITES (blacks too) whom they wish to kill one another in a 'theater of war' which they find AMUSING https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Finkelstein also admits JEWS DID 9/11 (perpetrated by the Mossad & Bebe Netanyahu of ISRAEL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?... profiting by it (and that 3,000 jews employed there did not show up for work that day knowing about it beforehand).
Finkelstein also admits JEWS are going to destroy the U.S. Dollar and dumping it for other world currencies and gold to destroy the United States.
George Soros who funds groups to create division in the USA?? A jew. One who sold his own jew people into death for the nazis.
Zucker now FIRED @ CNN is another frying publicly for lying about "russians" and John Bonifield a producer @ CNN said it is bs. Van Jones did also.
Bernie Madoff (who made off with everyone's money, especially construction union pensions) shows the thieving nature of the JUDE
Are we also supposed to turn our lights off, and not buy gasoline (or anything else) for the day as well?
Because THAT'LL accomplish SOMETHING! I'm SURE of it!
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Google should charge one dollar per search for one day just to open peoples eyes.
I donâ(TM)t care about
Is that lack of net neutrality works both ways. The websites can gang up and do unto the ISPs what the ISPs want to do to them. The major websites (Google, Facebook, Reddit, Yahoo, Netflix, etc) could agree that if they detected an ISP throttling any one of them, all of them would throttle that ISP. Then the ISPs would have the power to throttle websites, but would be afraid to use it for fear of signing their own Internet death warrant.
Their should be no problem to target some of the many people who supported the repeal.
Starting with Pai himself.
Then, if not the ISPs, the GAFA, Tweeter, Facebook, etc, could throttle down their services to show them what "no Net Neutrality" really means. Ideally inserting forms asking for money to get higher grade services.
What about Cloudflare ? They said they were looking for all possible legal action to throttle Pai's Internet ?
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Thank spaghetti monster they are finding the vote! Don’t let those pigs hide it any longer. Find the vote! Find the vote!
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#BringBackOurGirls, for example.
The average American has no idea what Net Neutrality is, and a bunch of D-list websites organizing a 'day of action' that likely won't be reported on the evening news will have close to no impact, and will likely not result in 'flipping' that covered 51st senator, and I can't even begin to imagine the uphill battle this group will face in the House.
BTW, having 51 senators supporting a bill doesn't guarantee it will be brought up for a vote in the senate.
Ken
.....were their "days of action" a couple years ago BEFORE net neutrality was even a thing? They didn't need it then.
I'm still not convinced net neutrality is good for the consumer. When you see almost every major corporation spending so much energy defending it, it should make you suspicious. Is having a big bureaucracy going to help things? I would argue the lack of regulation is what made the internet develop so well compared to the telecoms.
What if I want to buy a service that prioritizes time sensitive traffic like SIP? Not all traffic is the same. Streaming video can easily handle a high degree of jitter. My phone call cannot.
Shouldn't the rules instead be around preventing monopolies. Restrict exclusivity agreements in municipalities. Break up Comcast and Verizon. There are plenty of other ways to better handle this. The only thing worse than big business is big government in bed with big business. NN is a huge mistake.
Net Neutrality (2015-2017, RIP) was not legislation. I don't know that much about the issues, but am inclined to distrust the side with the most slippery rhetoric. Casting NN as legislation by discussing its repeal counts as "slippery". I award zero points, and may God have mercy on your dissimulating souls*.
(objection! assumes facts not in evidence!)
...of participants. If any one of the following participated, it would have an immediate impact:
* Google
* Amazon
* Youtube
* Facebook
* Twitter
* The major porn sites/networks.
* Maybe Ebay and/or PayPal.
Without any of those players, this effort will be forgotten after half a news cycle.
BTW - DuckDuckGo participating is the one search engine that won't make a dent. People that are aware enough of internet-related issues to use DuckDuckGo have likely already written entire treatises about the evils of net neutrality online to spread the word...
- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat, said in a statement he will lead a multi-state lawsuit to challenge the reversal.
- Immediately after the vote, Senator Edward Markey, a Democrat, said he and 15 other senators planned to introduce a resolution to undo the FCC action and restore the net neutrality rules.
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