Hey Startups, It’s Your Duty to Fight for Net Neutrality

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Post by amberj » Thu, May 18, 2017, 4:29 PM UTC

Hey Startups, It’s Your Duty to Fight for Net Neutrality
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Post by whitef0x » Thu, May 18, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

Why should it be the duty of startups to fight for net neutrality when it's the gatekeepers who control the flow of information and have the resources to actually keep the net open and free.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 18, 2017, 5:15 PM UTC

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Post by MrZongle2 » Thu, May 18, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

Shouldn't the duty of startups be to survive and grow, rather than devote any time and energy to the cause du jour?

Net Neutrality is incredibly important. I think it should be up to individuals to fight for it, rather than expect fledgling organizations to throw themselves unto the breach.

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Post by codelitt » Thu, May 18, 2017, 5:25 PM UTC

Semi-related, Twitter seems to be okay with taking lobbyist money from those against net neutrality: http://i.imgur.com/Ad2LMxZ.png

Weren't they part of the SOPA/PIPA blackout?

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Post by codelitt » Thu, May 18, 2017, 5:27 PM UTC

MrZongle2 wrote: post #4

Shouldn't the duty of startups be to survive and grow, rather than devote any time and energy to the cause du jour ? Net Neutrality is incredibly important. I think it should be up to individuals to fight for it, rather than expect fledgling organizations to throw themselves unto the breach.

Normally I would agree, except this particular issue is quite different. Startups and small companies are who net neutrality benefits the most. It is in their own self-interest. Whether they do it because it's good business or whether it's a good cause, there is enough reason.

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Post by pg_is_a_butt » Thu, May 18, 2017, 5:42 PM UTC

uh... if you want to scale beyond anything out today, you'll need special treatment or custom hardware running at ISPs around the world.

if there is a duty to always increase profits, startups should understand this and fight their end-game early to ensure they have the right to be treated like the special unicorn snowflakes they identify as.

you're all idiots.

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Post by Isamu » Thu, May 18, 2017, 5:44 PM UTC

Well, unless your startup is to provide vigorous and efficient means for throttling your victims/customers/peers. And deep packet inspection to find the ones trying to sneak through the barbed wire. If so, then happy days.

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Post by moron4hire » Thu, May 18, 2017, 5:46 PM UTC

Hey Sam, I'm glad you have so much money your every waking moment is not spent on just survival.

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Post by arca_vorago » Thu, May 18, 2017, 5:54 PM UTC

It's all our duties as hackers. Startups are simply made of hackers. It's us, not the startup, that needs to take action against these kinds of things... primarily by using technology to leave policy behind to catch up later, but the peice we missed doing that since the 90's was that technology is inherently political-affecting, and we need to start getting hackers into office to make up for this technocratic knowledge-deficit.

First step for anyone serious about this is to stop using as many proprietary software systems as possible. (Windows/OSX)