NET NEUTRALITY FCC VOTE

Infection! Your entire country is broken and full of sleaze. Fix it immediately!

author=InfectionFiles

author=Dyhalto
Infection! Your entire country is broken and full of sleaze. Fix it immediately!

I'm trying my best, Dy! I'm feverishly working on an old computer that's the size of a gymnasium trying to fix this issue!

Throw that computer at Ajit Pai, maybe that'll fix the issue.

So maybe I'm missing something but instead of buying the site packages won't people just throw their money at VPNs or whatever ISP decide to respect net neutrality to be more attractive to consumers?

author=InfectionFiles

author=Link_2112
I'm kinda over the internet anyways. It's not that great xD

The internet isn't what it used to be and I think a lot of us wouldn't see a difference.

Awesome things about the internet I can think of off-hand are the number of free resources for research/study & that the internet is a way for different groups of marginalized people who are discriminated against to find and support each other, & publish news and analysis that is not commonly, if at all, available in mainstream media.

My point was those quoted statements sound like you & Link are taking for granted what is pretty vital to other people, if only because of the apathetic tone.

An end to net neutrality means that potentially, ISPs can censor content they don't agree with. The ungodly labour of clicking to page 2 on Google is irrelevant when content can be blocked from access at all.


An example of Verizon attempting to do this in 2007

author=Gourd_Clae

author=InfectionFiles

author=OzzyTheOne

author=InfectionFiles

author=Dyhalto
Infection! Your entire country is broken and full of sleaze. Fix it immediately!

I'm trying my best, Dy! I'm feverishly working on an old computer that's the size of a gymnasium trying to fix this issue!

Throw that computer at Ajit Pai, maybe that'll fix the issue.

It probably won't, but I'll run it by him since y'know all us Americans are in kahoots.

You can't just give our secrets away like that shhhh...

author=suzy_cheesedreams

author=InfectionFiles

author=Link_2112
I'm kinda over the internet anyways. It's not that great xD

The internet isn't what it used to be and I think a lot of us wouldn't see a difference.

the internet is a way for different groups of marginalized people who are discriminated against to find and support each other, & publish news and analysis that is not commonly, if at all, available in mainstream media.

I actually wrote a research paper on this! The connection between marginalized communities and the internet is really strong. It'd be sad to see commmunities I'm a part of have an issue because of the end of net neutrality. :/

I live in the USA, and I disagree with Aijit Pai. I'd say beat the hell out of him with the computer, but what good would that do. I really hate him for this. The way everything has been going the USA doesn't deserve to be called the USA any more, or the land of the free.

That is almost like if 'Let them eat cake' was in video form.

author=suzy_cheesedreams

author=InfectionFiles

author=Link_2112
I'm kinda over the internet anyways. It's not that great xD

The internet isn't what it used to be and I think a lot of us wouldn't see a difference.

Awesome things about the internet I can think of off-hand are the number of free resources for research/study & that the internet is a way for different groups of marginalized people who are discriminated against to find and support each other, & publish news and analysis that is not commonly, if at all, available in mainstream media.

I was mostly being sarcastic, and you probably guessed as much, but my underlying feeling is that even in most of the good things on the internet you have bad seeping in. Trolls, people aggressively pushing their opinions and agendas, fucking ad's, MEME'S EVERYWHERE, banality(although that is subjective), the way it's shaping our society in a negative way. When I balance the good and the bad, I feel it comes out bad.

As an example, yes marginalized groups now have access to each other, but the people who want to persecute those groups now have access to ruin their lives in ways that weren't possible before. Many people's lives are literally ruined by the internet. Doxxing and such and so-forth.

Most people fight to make it a better place because it has such important uses, but I choose to be 'over it'. If the internet suddenly stopped working I wouldn't break down. Although I would miss talking to a few long distance friends :P and work would be harder. Maybe out of the ashes a new internet would arise! Cause we usually learn from mistakes, right?

If the internet suddenly became this fascist pay-to-win environment, it wouldn't affect me very much. The only real need I have for internet is email and chatting, neither of which requires speed and isn't going to get blocked for dumb reasons(even if it does, there are other means of communication for that). Everything else, I would probably just give up on or deal with the speed.

The internet itself is an amazing tool, but like everything else in society it gets warped. Things tend to keep getting worse and not better, and I may be jaded beyond salvation haha I grew up without the internet, and I would survive without it. I can imagine this being more important to the slightly younger generation.

I hope it turns out well though, I am FOR neutrality. Just in case that wasn't coming across heh