Once More Unto the Breach: Protect Net Neutrality

[Justin_Case001 4,891]

Net neutrality is once again in danger.  Trump and his ragtag band of cohorts seek to destroy all we hold dear.

 

This cannot be allowed.  We all need to stand together to stop this.  Once more unto the breach, dear friends.  Protect net neutrality.  Do not let the forces of darkness turn our internet into a totalitarian nightmare.  A free and open internet is our right.  We will never let them take it away.  We need your help.  Every one of you.  Do you like these forums?  They'll likely fall if net neutrality is abolished.  Stand with me and fight.  I don't care if you're atheist, Christian, Muslim, black, white, brown, orange, green, male, female, both, neither, other, Martian, Vulcan, Klingon, or a shuffling Cronenberg.  I don't care if you loved or hated Slice of Life.  Hell, I don't care if you think Flurry Heart is cute as the dickens.  We're brothers and sisters in arms.  All of us.

Make your voice heard right now.  Tell them to protect net neutrality and uphold Title II.

http://gofccyourself.com

 

Perhaps this is better suited for a blog post.  Apologies, but this is too important.  This is our fight for our freedom.

[Luigi 7,869]

I agree. This has got to be stopped.

It's already gone too far that Internet Privacy laws were repealed. Even a baby such as myself can understand how important this is.

[Justin_Case001 4,891]

Yesterday, the FCC passed their initial vote to begin repealing the laws that protect net neutrality by stripping the internet service providers of their Title II status.  We lost this battle, but the war isn't over.  The final vote isn't until August.  We still have time to save our internet and make our voices heard.  This is of the utmost importance to everyone who uses the internet.  If net neutrality falls, the internet as we know it will cease to exist, and everything we love about it will be gone.  Please take a couple of hours out of your lives to educate yourself about net neutrality and what the internet landscape would look like without it.  For starters, MLPF and Equestria Daily would almost surely not exist.

Please keep making as much noise as possible to support net neutrality.  We have three months to make our voices heard.  Continue leaving comments at the FCC website.  You can Last Week Tonight's link, http://gofccyourself.com.  At the moment, gofccyourself appears to still be directing users to a holding page, but they should have it up and running again soon.  In the meantime, you can still comment by going directly through the FCC homepage (it's only a few more clicks.)  You can also tweet at Chairman Pai at @AjitPaiFCC, and tell him that you support strong net neutrality backed by Title II oversight.  Go to http://protectourinternet.org/ to learn more about net neutrality, and what you can do to help.

I implore everyone to do everything that they can.  The nightmare scenario of the totalitarian, corporate controlled internet is not some unlikely doomsday scenario that won't really happen.  In fact, it is extremely probable, and it will almost certainly happen if the FCC's proposal passes.  Please help me fight.  Help yourself.  Save what's yours.

[Nerdy Luigi 2,065]

On ‎5‎/‎20‎/‎2017 at 3:37 AM, Justin_Case001 said:

Yesterday, the FCC passed their initial vote to begin repealing the laws that protect net neutrality by stripping the internet service providers of their Title II status.  We lost this battle, but the war isn't over.  The final vote isn't until August.  We still have time to save our internet and make our voices heard.  This is of the utmost importance to everyone who uses the internet.  If net neutrality falls, the internet as we know it will cease to exist, and everything we love about it will be gone.  Please take a couple of hours out of your lives to educate yourself about net neutrality and what the internet landscape would look like without it.  For starters, MLPF and Equestria Daily would almost surely not exist.

Please keep making as much noise as possible to support net neutrality.  We have three months to make our voices heard.  Continue leaving comments at the FCC website.  You can Last Week Tonight's link, http://gofccyourself.com.  At the moment, gofccyourself appears to still be directing users to a holding page, but they should have it up and running again soon.  In the meantime, you can still comment by going directly through the FCC homepage (it's only a few more clicks.)  You can also tweet at Chairman Pai at @AjitPaiFCC, and tell him that you support strong net neutrality backed by Title II oversight.  Go to http://protectourinternet.org/ to learn more about net neutrality, and what you can do to help.

I implore everyone to do everything that they can.  The nightmare scenario of the totalitarian, corporate controlled internet is not some unlikely doomsday scenario that won't really happen.  In fact, it is extremely probable, and it will almost certainly happen if the FCC's proposal passes.  Please help me fight.  Help yourself.  Save what's yours.

 

I've said this in a Youtube comment section and I'll say it again: 1984 is happening.

[DubWolf 17,263]

They're just un-chaining these dogs and letting them attack people; these regulations are there for consumer-protection, I guess that's not important to the government of the United States, makes you wonder.. no, remember that it's not the people being represented anymore, or this wouldn't be even remotely considered.

We need to fight back, or slowly have all our rights stripped away until we devolve into slaves...

[Steve Piranha 29,425]

HELL NO, THEY ARE NOT TOUCHING MY INTERNET 

[CheeryFox 23,821]

More fuckery from your friendly, neighborhood FCC. Ajit V. Pai is a mook. If I wasn't so tired, I'd continue with the insults. Anyway...I'll make my voice heard. 

[Maple Bat 3,568]

4 hours ago, Wooly Wolf said:

We need to fight back, or slowly have all our rights stripped away until we devolve into slaves...

Agreed and I'm not going to let that happen I refuse to be a useless pawn to the government or any corperation 

[Justin_Case001 4,891]

I think the main reason why this is even a problem is because this issue doesn't make news.  Net neutrality will never be in the newspaper or on tv.  The issue won't appear outside of the internet, and even then, you typically have to go looking for it to find it.  The fact is that the vast, vast majority of Americans probably don't have a clue what net neutrality is.  Honesty, I didn't until the laws went up in 2015.  Most people likely have no idea how much is at stake, or how close their precious internet is to complete destruction.  To quote K, "There is always an alien battlecrusier, or a Kerilean death ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out life on this miserable little planet.  The only way these 'people' get on  with their 'happy' lives is they do...not....know about it."

The problem is how f*cked up the news reporting is.  Major news reporting institutions don't report what people really need to know about.  Instead, they capitalize on small human interest stories, empathy, and fear.  This is better explained with examples; a random apartment fire is not news.  A homeless person getting hit by a car is not news.  A gang banger getting shot by another gang banger in gangland is not news.  Each of these events is only relevant to the people directly involved, and their friends/families, etc.  We all know that people get shot, hit by cars, and other random mayhem every day.  We don't need to hear about all of them.  I'm not even remotely suggesting that our internet speed and media access is more important than human life, but it does absolutely no good to anyone to hear about each random death, accident, robbery, etc.  And yet, each of these events will take priority over something that could have massive consequences for hundreds of millions of people, and even the global economy.  I.e. net neutrality.  Net neutrality needs to be front page news in every paper, and the main story on the evening news on TV.  And yet, they will never mention it.  They will report on useless deaths and accidents, and leave hundreds of millions in the dark about something happening right under their noses which could uproot their lives.

The fact is that the FCC is giggling with delight that the news is currently overwhelmingly dominated by the Russia investigation crap, or as John Oliver calls it, Stupid Watergate.  No one is paying attention to anything that the FCC is doing.  The short of it is, net neutrality will probably die specifically because most people don't know what it is, don't know that we have it, don't know that we need it, and don't know what things could be like without it.  It will pass away with no knowledge, right under everyone's noses.  This will be history's greatest reaffirmation of the old adage, "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone."

But this just means that we, the faithful denizens of the internet, must speak loud enough for everyone else.

[Justin_Case001 4,891]

I have not posted in here for a very long time.  Things have been busy and life has been difficult, but I wanted to come back here and try to raise awareness again because it's so important.  I'm not sure if this post will actually bump this topic, or if it will be merged in with the previous post I made on May 28th.  It used to be that any post made would just be separate, then for awhile they would merge if there wasn't a post from someone else in between.  I'm not sure what it is now.  Anyway, I hope it bumps it, because this issue isn't going anywhere, and it needs a much visibility as possible.  Very shortly we could all be in for a very, very bad day.

Like, this is us on the forums, and this is what could happen to our internet (Game of Thrones spoiler):

 

So, anyway, I'll spare you the details of how things have been developing, but suffice it to say, it's bad.  But we can't give up.  If the internet gets destroyed and we lose everything, I want to know that we did everything we possibly could.  I want to go down fighting.  Please visit https://www.battleforthenet.com/ to learn what you can do to help.

[Yakamaru 3,127]

The fact that you even NEED Net Neutrality laws is a problem in and of its own in the first place.

This is a moronic move by the US government.

[DubWolf 17,263]

1 hour ago, Yakamaru said:

The fact that you even NEED Net Neutrality laws is a problem in and of its own in the first place.

This is a moronic move by the US government.

Yup. A backwards move. It's almost like debating if there should be public funding for grade school.

And of course, even funds for that have been CUT!

CUT THIS! *votes them out with my 1-million vote*

Edited August 5, 2017 by Wacko Wolf

[Yakamaru 3,127]

6 minutes ago, Wacko Wolf said:

Yup. A backwards move. It's almost like debating if there should be public funding for grade school.

And of course, even funds for that have been CUT!

CUT THIS! *votes them out with my 1-million vote*

The problem isn't a lack of Net Neutrality. It's a lack of laws protecting the consumers and the employees in general. if you came here to Norway, your jaws would drop. To the floor. Our consumer and employee protection laws are quite broad. We don't need crap like Net Neutrality, as healthy competition is already ingrained into our society.

[DubWolf 17,263]

1 hour ago, Yakamaru said:

The problem isn't a lack of Net Neutrality. It's a lack of laws protecting the consumers and the employees in general. if you came here to Norway, your jaws would drop. To the floor. Our consumer and employee protection laws are quite broad. We don't need crap like Net Neutrality, as healthy competition is already ingrained into our society.

If men were angels, we wouldn't need government, but here all those businesses are predatory and out to get you, so we need rules to keep them in their place.

Edited August 5, 2017 by Wacko Wolf

[Yakamaru 3,127]

8 minutes ago, Wacko Wolf said:

If men were angels, we wouldn't need government, but here all those businesses are predatory and out to get you, so we need rules to keep them in their place.

Men or women, doesn't matter. People in general are trash. If people were angels, we wouldn't need so many laws in place to prevent abuse and exploitation.

Though saying ALL businesses is out to get you is a little farfetched, don't you think?

I would agree that a decent amount of companies ARE out to exploit, as there are no laws in place to prevent it.

Edited August 5, 2017 by Yakamaru