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Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet

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Post by thehardsphere »

HugoDaniel wrote: post #157
thehardsphere wrote: post #139

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How is the type of switching relevant, exactly?

Why do you think the telephone had different prices according to the distance you wanted to phone ? That is because a dedicated circuit had to be established for your call to be made (sometimes with multiple protocols in between). This was crucial and defined the way operators organized and made their businesses. Unfortunately these businesses did not evolve as much as tech did and now you have net neutrality being q…

Uh, I don't, and I don't understand why you're asking me that.

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Post by nawgszy »

reitanqild wrote: post #147
notriddle wrote: post #141

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Didn't they already basically kill Internet Explorer this way?

Yes. And they are trying to kill every other browser as well :-/ At this point I dislike chrome for exactly the same reasons I disliked IE: it is not good enough for me [0] and its sheer dominance makes web creators lazy and triggers bean counters to skimp on cross browser compatibility checks. But this time they could actually use it for good. [0]: yep. You would hear the same thing back then: You are the only one w…

>it is not good enough for me

Well, I am curious: what makes other browsers better for you? The other day I posed this question in a thread, and the main answer was "a good feeling inside".

Then the news that Mozilla forces you into being tracked by Google Analytics comes out, and that good feeling is gone, so what's your use case?

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Post by reitanqild »

kingbirdy wrote: post #97
krath94 wrote: post #72

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"Yeah we're gonna teach them that censorship is wrong by censoring people!!!"

But they'd just be censoring themselves

Yep. That was the point I guess.

Sometimes it seems easier to communicate something by stating the opposite and let people work out themselves why this is a bad idea.

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Post by [deleted] »

Old_Thrashbarg wrote: post #116
clarkevans wrote: post #108

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Indeed. With prior threats I seem to remember Google having some sort of front-page search page link to the issue. Perhaps I'm not remembering correctly? Why no Google search page love? I was at least expecting what is currently at https://duckduckgo.com/

Right, shame on Google. Even DuckDuckGo's action is extremely mild, but better than nothing at all.

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

mrkrabo wrote: post #152
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #126

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This is exactly what I thought. Went to reddit.com...where's the Net Neutrality protest? Oh I just realized they made their logo a gif that looks like it loads slow...and they made a post... Went to google.com...the doodle is unrelated and I saw nothing about net neutrality on the site... Went to mozilla.org and I see absolutely nothing about it. I feel like I must be missing something here. Hackernews...looks the sa…

Why do you want to ruin the internet more for the rest of the world today?

Because I want to protect it for the whole world for the future. Netflix, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, Reddit, and other major services you use which are supporting net neutrality all started as American companies. If this measure fails, it's less likely that equally good companies will come from the resulting situation.

Sorry about your Internet today, but they're doing it for your Internet tomorrow.

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Post by Bakary »

komali2 wrote: post #80
mabbo wrote: post #19

If Google were actually serious about Net Neutrality, they would use their insane market power to protect it. How? Well, a simple statement saying "any ISP who abuses net neutrality will have their customers cut off from Google products". No Google search, no YouTube, no Gmail. Have those requests instead redirect to a website telling the customer what their ISP is doing, why Google won't work with them, and how to c…

I love this idea because I read too much cyberpunk. Why doesn't Twitter flex its muscle and cause a national crisis by tweeting "watch out China, nukes are coming" from Donald Trump's Twitter? That ruins trust in the platform, but what if they just banned the US president's account for TOS or something? Enormous amount of power. What if Musk's first ship to Mars had a hidden Railgun on it? "Anybody else that wants to…

Technically, the US President holds the power to end life on Earth should he so desire. To the best of my knowledge, there is no safeguard in place that could prevent such a course of action if it were attempted. Even Comcast's power seems rather pitiful in comparison.
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