It's amazing how much money influences these politicians. I would be amazed if any of the people who voted for this bill even fully understand what it is.
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#12A part of me wonders if net neutrality ending would be unintuitively beneficial. Right now we are depending on policy decisions to protect the internet's privacy and neutrality. This has been a flawed approach for over a decade. At some point we need to solve this with technology in a similar way that E2E encryption is a step toward solving chat privacy. Maybe the selling of browser histories and then end of net neut…
How does encryption solve the problem of Verizon squeezing Netflix to degrade its service in favor of its own offerings? Net neutrality isn't about consumer surveillance (which is a problem too, just a different one). It's about access to markets and the ability to choose the services you use on the internet.
I'm not saying encryption is the solution. The solution to internet neutrality and user privacy may be something entirely different. Maybe it is mesh networks of an open source wifi solution. I'm not an expert in networking, but it doesn't take much to understand the policy-first approach is fundamentally flawed.
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#13It's amazing how much money influences these politicians. I would be amazed if any of the people who voted for this bill even fully understand what it is.
In Tennessee Comcast emailed our state house asking if they want free TV political advertising, this was the day after blocking the expansion of municipal owned broadband. They know what they are doing.
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#14Kind of depressing how easily all that past effort and public campaigning gets brushed aside for Telecom concerns
For every bill we manage to push back, they just make another one with a slightly different name. They are taking advantage of the fact that people can only get up in arms so many times.
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#15A part of me wonders if net neutrality ending would be unintuitively beneficial. Right now we are depending on policy decisions to protect the internet's privacy and neutrality. This has been a flawed approach for over a decade. At some point we need to solve this with technology in a similar way that E2E encryption is a step toward solving chat privacy. Maybe the selling of browser histories and then end of net neut…
I agree. People are finally waking up to the fact that government policy is just a wool over their eyes and that they need to start giving a shit about their own safety and privacy on the internet.
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#16thanks jill stein voters. :) tell me again how both parties are the same
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
You vote in a new President.
Voting in the midterms is equally as important! If we can regain some balance in either the house or the senate we can block, or at least slow these terrible bills down
He's proposing to do it as a ruling within the FCC; not within congress.
EDIT: Worth mentioning Pai was directly as chairman by Trump.
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#18Is there anything that can be done here? Pai and his little buddy O'Rielly have an easy majority on the FCC here, and I doubt they'll listen to any comments. Short of like, the Trump government being dismantled before then, how do you get rid of such a transparently corrupt head of a federal agency?
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#19thanks jill stein voters. :) tell me again how both parties are the same
Didn't vote for Jill but the drug war comes to mind. Also money influencing our representatives.