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ATTENTION TUMBLR ARTISTS

SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE STEALING YOUR GODAMN ART?

Can’t find the godamn ask to tell the blogger to kindly take your art down?

NO MORE!

Email [email protected] with links to your originals and the repost, and they’ll take it down.

NOW REBLOG THE SHIT OUTA THIS AND SPREAD THE WORD!

Japanese translation ・日本語訳

Tumblrの絵師さんにお知らせ

絵の無断転載されまくりでうんざりしている貴方！

絵を外してもらいたいのに犯人のAskが見つからない？

もう大丈夫です！

貴方の元々の投稿のURLと転載されたURLをメールに入れて[email protected]に送れば、Tumblrのスタッフが削除してくれます。（※訳注：できれば英語を使った方は多分対応が早くなる）

さあ、これをリブログしてみんなに知らせよう！

Korean translation 

계속되는 Tumblr 그림불펌에 지치신 존잘님들! 내려달라고 하고 싶지만 불펌한 당사자에게 직접적인 연락이되지않아서 골치아프신가요?

»> [email protected] «<  이쪽으로 원본 소스 링크와 허락없이 올려진 링크를 이멜로 보내시면 Tumblr가 알아서 내려줍니다. 

그리고 영어가 불편하신분들을 위해서 간단하게 작성을 했습니다: “My art was uploaded without permission on Tumblr, and I would like the post removed.   This is the original link to my art (소스링크) . This is the post I would like deleted (불펌링크) .” 

Korrasami is canon. You can celebrate it, embrace it, accept it, get over it, or whatever you feel the need to do, but there is no denying it. That is the official story. We received some wonderful press in the wake of the series finale at the end of last week, and just about every piece I read got it right: Korra and Asami fell in love. Were they friends? Yes, and they still are, but they also grew to have romantic feelings for each other. Was Korrasami “endgame,” meaning, did we plan it from the start of the series? No, but nothing other than Korra’s spiritual arc was. Asami was a duplicitous spy when Mike and I first conceived her character. Then we liked her too much so we reworked the story to keep her in the dark regarding her father’s villainous activities. Varrick and Zhu Li weren’t originally planned to end up as a couple either, but that’s where we took the story/where the story took us. That’s how writing works the vast majority of the time. You give these characters life and then they tell you what they want to do. I have bragging rights as the first Korrasami shipper (I win!). As we wrote Book 1, before the audience had ever laid eyes on Korra and Asami, it was an idea I would kick around the writers’ room. At first we didn’t give it much weight, not because we think same-sex relationships are a joke, but because we never assumed it was something we would ever get away with depicting on an animated show for a kids network in this day and age, or at least in 2010. Makorra was only “endgame” as far as the end of Book 1. Once we got into Book 2 we knew we were going to have them break up, and we never planned on getting them back together. Sorry, friends. I like Mako too, and I am sure he will be just fine in the romance department. He grew up and learned about himself through his relationships with Asami and Korra, and he’s a better person for it, and he’ll be a better partner for whomever he ends up with. Once Mako and Korra were through, we focused on developing Korra and Asami’s relationship. Originally, it was primarily intended to be a strong friendship. Frankly, we wanted to set most of the romance business aside for the last two seasons. Personally, at that point I didn’t want Korra to have to end up with someone at the end of series. We obviously did it in Avatar, but even that felt a bit forced to me. I’m usually rolling my eyes when that happens in virtually every action film, “Here we go again…” It was probably around that time that I came across this quote from Hayao Miyazaki: “I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.” I agree with him wholeheartedly, especially since the majority of the examples in media portray a female character that is little more than a trophy to be won by the male lead for his derring-do. So Mako and Korra break the typical pattern and end up respecting, admiring, and inspiring each other. That is a resolution I am proud of. However, I think there needs to be a counterpart to Miyazaki’s sentiment: Just because two characters of the same sex appear in the same story, it should not preclude the possibility of a romance between them. No, not everyone is queer, but the other side of that coin is that not everyone is straight. The more Korra and Asami’s relationship progressed, the more the idea of a romance between them organically blossomed for us. However, we still operated under this notion, another “unwritten rule,” that we would not be allowed to depict that in our show. So we alluded to it throughout the second half of the series, working in the idea that their trajectory could be heading towards a romance. But as we got close to finishing the finale, the thought struck me: How do I know we can’t openly depict that? No one ever explicitly said so. It was just another assumption based on a paradigm that marginalizes non-heterosexual people. If we want to see that paradigm evolve, we need to take a stand against it. And I didn’t want to look back in 20 years and think, “Man, we could have fought harder for that.” Mike and I talked it over and decided it was important to be unambiguous about the intended relationship. We approached the network and while they were supportive there was a limit to how far we could go with it, as just about every article I read accurately deduced. It was originally written in the script over a year ago that Korra and Asami held hands as they walked into the spirit portal. We went back and forth on it in the storyboards, but later in the retake process I staged a revision where they turned towards each other, clasping both hands in a reverential manner, in a direct reference to Varrick and Zhu Li’s nuptial pose from a few minutes prior. We asked Jeremy Zuckerman to make the music tender and romantic, and he fulfilled the assignment with a sublime score. I think the entire last two-minute sequence with Korra and Asami turned out beautiful, and again, it is a resolution of which I am very proud. I love how their relationship arc took its time, through kindness and caring. If it seems out of the blue to you, I think a second viewing of the last two seasons would show that perhaps you were looking at it only through a hetero lens. Was it a slam-dunk victory for queer representation? I think it falls short of that, but hopefully it is a somewhat significant inching forward. It has been encouraging how well the media and the bulk of the fans have embraced it. Sadly and unsurprisingly, there are also plenty of people who have lashed out with homophobic vitriol and nonsense. It has been my experience that by and large this kind of mindset is a result of a lack of exposure to people whose lives and struggles are different from one’s own, and due to a deficiency in empathy––the latter being a key theme in Book 4. (Despite what you might have heard, bisexual people are real!) I have held plenty of stupid notions throughout my life that were planted there in any number of ways, or even grown out of my own ignorance and flawed personality. Yet through getting to know people from all walks of life, listening to the stories of their experiences, and employing some empathy to try to imagine what it might be like to walk in their shoes, I have been able to shed many hurtful mindsets. I still have a long way to go, and I still have a lot to learn. It is a humbling process and hard work, but nothing on the scale of what anyone who has been marginalized has experienced. It is a worthwhile, lifelong endeavor to try to understand where people are coming from. There is the inevitable reaction, “Mike and Bryan just caved in to the fans.” Well, which fans? There were plenty of Makorra shippers out there, so if we had gone back on our decision and gotten those characters back together, would that have meant we caved in to those fans instead? Either direction we went, there would inevitably be a faction that was elated and another that was devastated. Trust me, I remember Kataang vs. Zutara. But one of those directions is going to be the one that feels right to us, and Mike and I have always made both Avatar and Korra for us, first and foremost. We are lucky that so many other people around the world connect with these series as well. Tahno playing trombone––now that was us caving in to the fans! But this particular decision wasn’t only done for us. We did it for all our queer friends, family, and colleagues. It is long over due that our media (including children’s media) stops treating non-heterosexual people as nonexistent, or as something merely to be mocked. I’m only sorry it took us so long to have this kind of representation in one of our stories. I’ll wrap this up with some incredible words that Mike and I received in a message from a former Korra crew member. He is a deeply religious person who devotes much of his time and energy not only to his faith, but also to helping young people. He and I may have starkly different belief systems, but it is heartwarming and encouraging that on this issue we are aligned in a positive, progressive direction: “I’ve read enough reviews to get a sense of how it affected people. One very well-written article in Vanity Fair called it subversive (in a good way, of course)… I would say a better word might be “healing.” I think your finale was healing for a lot of people who feel outside or on the fringes, or that their love and their journey is somehow less real or valuable than someone else’s… That it’s somehow less valid. I know quite a few people in that position, who have a lifetime of that on their shoulders, and in one episode of television you both relieved and validated them. That’s healing in my book.” Love, Bryan

please.

That is the exact spot my parents found a stray kitten. Nice little addition to the family, but would have been a terrible addition to the pavement had she not been very vocal OTL

No joke, the place where that cat is resting in this picture is called a “dead cat hole” it’s an automotive term.  Don’t believe me, look it up.

This is also where I found a stray cat, she was up in there during a thunderstorm and I begged my dad to let me being her inside and that’s the story of how I got my first cat.

Please don’t skip over this without reading it and making a mental note. Even if you don’t have a car, tell your parents or whoever, and make sure to do this. You think that’ll never happen but that’s what everyone thought who had this happen and didn’t check, and that poor cold cat met with a terribly sad end.

MY OPINION ON THINGS CHANGE FREQUENTLY AS I LEARN MORE STUFF ABOUT THE THING PLEASE DO NOT HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE FOR SOMETHING I SAID THREE YEARS AGO

thank you and bless you

I’ve received a lot of letters from artists asking to check out their artwork and their blog, and I’ve noticed that a lot of them openly write unhealthy amounts of negative comments about their artwork, it was super depressing, honestly.  :( Confidence plays a very very important role as an artist, it’s what helps us learn and grow without the constant feeling of doubt and jealousy!  You are a unique individual who must go down your own unique path, and as scary as it sounds, you can’t rely on others to hold your hand all the way through.  You are the only one who can get yourself to where you need to go, and beating up your artwork is not the way!  Trust yourself and your abilities to make a change, and you can do anything!! Love your art, love yourself!

this is so important *-*

Cosplayers too pay attention cause all those steps apply for our ‘art’ as well.

People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

Hey guys, since its kitten season I felt I should make this post.

So yesterday, a customer and her kids brought a 2 week old kitten into Petsmart and asked one of my coworkers what they needed to care for it. My coworker immediately directed them to our in-store vet and called me, and thankfully I was across the street and able to come immediately.

This customer was interested in raising this baby with her kids, thinking it would be a good lesson in responsibility if the kids took care of him. But, they didn’t know anything about kittens, and made a few huge mistakes and ultimately decided to hand the kitten over to us. (They didn’t dig the idea of helping the kitten poop.)  So, heres a few baby kitten basics!

Kittens who are newborn are A LOT of work. They cannot poop or pee on their own, they need to be monitored 24 hrs a day, most of the time they will need to be bottle fed every 30 minutes- hour, kept warm, kept clean, and it is best to have an emergency vet handy! They can get sick easily, and as their immune systems are weak, they can die easily.

Often times, mom is still around! She could be off hunting/moving kittens to a safer location/defending the area, and unless the kittens are at least 5 or 6 weeks old, its better to let mom handle them.  Both kittens I have received this year that were “abandoned” or “found” were healthy and taken care of, mom probably left only momentarily! 

I understand, he seemed hungry, but their digestive systems are very sensitive and cows milk can give them the runs, which could kill them easily if you have no way of rehydrating them or giving them proper milk.

Handrearing kittens will make you momma, thats for sure, but handrearing them alone with no connection to other cats/kittens can cause major behavioral issues down the road, as they learn a lot of basic lessons through interactions with littermates!  Unless you intend to have multiple cats, please consider finding a foster for the kitten and adopting from a rescue group instead. 

All it takes is for your cat to get out once or twice, and you might be responsible for even more kittens. I cannot stress enough how important spaying/neutering is. 

Thanks guys! And have a happy kitten season. Always consider helping a local rescue group out with volunteering/fostering kittens, we always need more help! 

This was meant to be a quick warm up, but it turned into a comic that I’ve wanted to draw for a while. This is something that is extremely important to me, and I appreciate it if you read it.

A while ago, I heard a story that broke my heart. A family went a cat shelter to adopt. The daughter fell in love with a 3-legged cat. The father straight up said “absolutely not”. Because he was missing a leg. That cat was that close to having a family that loved him, but the missing leg held him back. Why?!

Many people have the initial instinct of “nope” when they see an imperfect animal. I get it, but less-adoptable does NOT mean less loveable. 9 out of 10 people will choose a kitten over an adult cat. And those 10% that would get an adult cat often overlook “different” animals.

All I want people to do is be open to the idea of having a “different” pet in their lives. Choose the pet that you fall in love with, but at least give all of them a fair shot at winning your heart.

Don’t dismiss them, they deserve a loving home just as much as any other cat. They still purr, they still love a warm lap, they still play, they still love you. Trust me, next time you are in the market for a new kitty, just go over to that one cat that’s missing an eye and see what he’s all about!

Let me tell to you a thing.

This is Lenore. I first saw her in a little cage at the Petco I frequent (I used to take my parents’ dog in for puppy play time), and she looked like the grouchiest, old, crotchety cat in the world, and I fell instantly in love. She was cranky, she was anti-social, hanging out at the back of her cage. Her fur was matted because she wouldn’t let the groomers near her.

She was perfect.

But I didn’t have a place for her. I wasn’t living in my own space yet, and where I was, I wasn’t allowed cats. So I pressed my face to the bars of her cage and I promised that if no one had adopted her by the time I’d bought a house, I would come back for her.

I visited her every week for over six months while I looked for a house. At one point, they had to just shave her entire rear-end because the mats or fur were so bad. They told me she clawed the heck outta the groomer that did it, screamed the entire time, and spent the next two days growling at anyone that came near the cage.

A couple of weeks later, I closed on my house. I went back and I got an employee, and I said: “That one. I need that cat.”

They got the paperwork and the lady who ran the rescue that was bringing the cats in told me that Lenore (at the time, Lila) was 8 years old, had been owned by an elderly lady who had died, and brought in to a different rescue, who’d had her for six months on top of the time I’d been seeing her at Petco.

This kitty had been living in a 3x3’ cube for over a YEAR because she was older and “less adoptable.”

I signed the paperwork, put her in a cat carrier, and drove her to my new home. I had pretty much nothing; a bed, an old couch, a couple of bookcases, and a tank of mice I called “Cat TV”. I let her out of the carrier and onto my bed, and I told her “I told you I would come back for you when I had a place. It’s not much, but it’s yours too now.”

Lenore spent the next three days straight purring non-stop. She followed me around the house purring. Sat next to me purring. Slept next to me purring. Leaning into every touch, purring, purring, always purring. She still purrs if you so much as think about petting her. She’s amazing, and I love her.

So, you know, if you’re thinking about adopting, and you see a beast that others consider “less adoptable,” think about Lenore.

Maysoon Zayid on TEDWomen (x)

this is SO IMPORTANT I AM YELLING

16 absolutely disgusting things that Europe voted for and that you need to know about

translating this article because this is so important

1. “Monsieur Ebola can solve the problem in three months” - Front National’s founder Jean-Marie Le Pen about how an Ebola epidemic would solve the immigration problems (x). 

2. “Women should not have the right to vote” - Janusz Korwin-Mikke, leader of Poland’s ‘Kongres Nowej Prawicy’ (Congress of the new right). (x)

3. “Register all Jews - they are a national security problem” - Jobbik, Hungary

4. “These sexual drifts are not normal and they never will be” - Party secretary of the Swedish Democrats, Björn Söder about homosexuality (x)

5. “People have the right to be concerned if a (Romanian) group moved in next door. - Nigel Farage, UKIP leader (x)

6. “All credit to Venner whose final, highly political act was an attemot to awaken the people of France” - Marine Le Pen, leader of Front National about a man who shot himself in protest against gay marriage (x)

7. Reading of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in the parliament  - Ilias Kasidiaris, Golden Dawn (x)

8.”Most people over 70 are uncomfortable with homosexuality” - Nigel Farage, UKIP leader (x)

9. “Rape is an expression of Islamic culture” - Richard Jomshof, the Swedish Democrats (x)

10. “What Auschwitz? Were you there?” - NIkolas Michaloliakos, leader of Golden Dawn (x)

11. “The holocaust was only a detail in World War II” - Marie Le Pen, founder of Front National (x)

12. “Send the homosexuals and Somalis to Åland” - Teuvo Hakkarainen, Finns Party (x)

13. “You will die here!” - Jobbik in Hungary protesting against Roma (x)

14. “Gay marriage caused floods” - David Silvester (UKIP), claims that he warned David Cameron that allowing gay couples to marry would lead to flooding.(x)

15. “The Muslims are our biggest foreign threat since World War II” - Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the Swedish Democrats (x)

16. “Stop Muslim immigration” - Martin Henriksen, Danish People’s Party (x)

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Friendzone ideology isn’t attacked because “nice guys” are comical or because fedoras make a funny meme, it’s because this logic is literally dangerous. This logic of “gentleman = deserving sex” breeds hatred of women, and brutal violence against women, and if a 22 year old self-proclaimed “supreme gentleman” murdering 7 in a campus shooting spree because of sexual rejection doesn’t drive that home, I don’t know what else would.

Geotagged Wildlife Photos Help Poachers Kill Endangered Animals

If you care about endangered animals that are hunted for their parts, here’s something important you should keep in mind: make sure you scrub the GPS data on the images prior to sharing them online. Poachers have reportedly been turning to geotagged photos on social networks in order to find out where they can make their next kill. A photograph that has recently been making the rounds on the Web shows a sign that has been put up at an undisclosed reserve. It reads:

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Urgent security update

Bad news. A major vulnerability, known as “Heartbleed,” has been disclosed for the technology that powers encryption across the majority of the internet. That includes Tumblr.

We have no evidence of any breach and, like most networks, our team took immediate action to fix the issue.

But this still means that the little lock icon (HTTPS) we all trusted to keep our passwords, personal emails, and credit cards safe, was actually making all that private information accessible to anyone who knew about the exploit.

This might be a good day to call in sick and take some time to change your passwords everywhere—especially your high-security services like email, file storage, and banking, which may have been compromised by this bug.

You’ll be hearing more in the news over the coming days. Take care.

This is Lord Dorian Clarence, a.k.a. “Bosie.” He is the love of my life. I happened upon him over six years ago, during an out-of-country visit to a close friend who was fostering his beautiful self for an URTI. He looked me straight in the eyes as he greeted me, and I knew I could not live the rest of my life without his company. I spent several months in agony upon my return home, thinking that upon his return to the shelter, surely a thing as charming and persuasive as he would be adopted by somebody else, somebody who lived nearby, before I ever even had a chance. At that point, I was heading into my second year of my bachelor’s degree, aloft and unstable in terms of my living arrangements. I told myself that if I secured a place apart from the campus dorms where I could comfortably provide for a cat, I would go back for Bosie if he was still available. Months later, I did in fact find a place to live, and Bosie had ended up in my friend’s loving care again before anybody else had managed to snatch him up. I immediately arranged for him to be brought to me, from Oregon, USA, all the way up to British Columbia, Canada. He crossed a border, rode a ferry, and protested the entire way. I have spent six years out of the meager 24 of my life with this lovely gentleman. He is a complete and utter brat, who is artful, demanding and domineering. Above all, he is affectionate, gentle, and kind. He loves spooning, holding hands, kisses, and giving hugs. He comes when you call, purrs up a storm, and is always by your side, especially when you are in need of comfort. He is my everything. He’s been with me through thick and thin, cuddling all the way, and has never failed to charm a single professed “cat-hater” into submission. Last Sunday, after regular vet hours, he took a nasty fall. We took him to the emergency vet, and the $500 CND visit was very generously covered by my roommate. Being the intrepid explorer that he is, he jumped up above our fireplace and knocked an ornament over, and in twisting to avoid it, gave himself a very rare injury. He tore what is called his “cranial cruciate ligament,” which is “one of the ligaments in the knee joint that helps to stabilize the knee.” This is an injury more often seen in dogs, and is usually cured by rest and minimal activity. However, Bosie, being too fancy for pedestrian injuries, tore a piece of bone of of his tibia (the shin bone) with the ligament. Usually, only very dense material such as bone is visible on x-rays; ligaments generally appear translucent. In the place where there was supposed to be nothing, was a shard of sharp, sharp bone. This piece of bone needs to be surgically removed, otherwise it will cause further inflammation, impeding mobility, and in the worst case scenario, affect his long-term quality of life by initiating the painful process of arthritis by further degrading the exposed tibia bone. The projected cost of his surgery, post-op care and rehabilitative procedures comes to just under $2,500 CND. During the emergency examination, the vet also noticed something worrying—the presence of an abnormal heart rhythm, arrhythmia, in the form of a gallop murmur. While Bosie has comfortably made it to 10 long cat years, sometimes a heart murmur is an indication of a more severe problem, such as heart disease. Before they can even consider him a candidate for surgery, they must do a full heart workup to rule out the dangers of subjecting him to anesthesia. This process was quoted to me just under $1,000 CND. This work-up, combined with the full cost of surgery, and the fee for the emergency examination, makes the projected full cost of his fall just under $4,000 CND. This is the first time in six years, discounting regular annual exams, that such an incident has happened and I have not been able to comfortably provide for him. I recently graduated from my bachelor’s programme, setting the student loan debtors on my tail, and was simultaneously let go from my former job. It was a few months before I found stable employment again, of which I am currently in my third week of, and in that time in-betwen became quite financially destitute. Fully considering the very generous donations my friends have already provided me, I am currently lacking approximately $2,500 CND for his treatment. He is my life. I want him to be as comfortable and as well-taken care of as possible, and have already arranged for these procedures to take place as soon as they can. Anything will help, even just sharing this information. I plan to update with his progress, complete plenty of awful phone photographs, as these procedures take place. Even just for reading this, you have my eternal gratitude!

If you would like to contribute to Bosie’s recovery, my paypal is [email protected] and the corresponding Go Fund Me link with the same information is at http://www.gofundme.com/bocchama.

Dear people who upload my doujin,

Hi, I am 讃岐そば太郎. I have decided to write to you, because I wanted to make my point clear about redistribution of my pics and doujin.

Usually I am happy to see my works being translated and I even enjoy reading them. I don’t stop people from translating my works and redistributing it.

But I am definitely against redistribution of a whole copy of doujin(book).

Recently I have found my copy of doujin, The Record being translated and shared on web. It was a full copy of my doujin.

Please understand the fact that I am actually selling doujin. It is completely different from what I am doing on web.

I pay money to print it and pay even more to join doujin events. I pay to send doujin to event halls and pay to send it back to my home. I pay for my own transportation and I pay to hire people who sell my doujin on events(I pay for their working-hours, lunch, and transportation).

And people who are interested in my works also pay to read it.

I understand the fact that it is not easy to buy doujin abroad, and I guess even if it was available, you might feel that it is too expensive. But even in Japan, doujin is not so cheap. It is not cheap for both creators and readers. If you think it is not worth the money your paying or you have to pay, just stick with what you can find on web. Stay away from uploading copies of doujin.

There are creators who really make money and earn living from doujin, but those who can do so, are minority. Most of us pay more than what we earn, but we still want to enjoy doujin as a hobby(or at least I do). But obviously, if I can’t afford it, I have to start using my time for something else and give up on writing(creating manga doesn’t happen in a flash). That’s the last thing which will happen if people continue to upload my doujin on web.  I think I have made my point clear and I hope there are people who support what I am saying.

Also, I would like to articulate that what I wrote here is only “in my case”.

There are doujin-creators who are totally against redistribution of whatever they make or upload on web(“In my case” I don’t mind poeple to redistribute what I have already uploaded on web/usually it is pics and doujin-samples). 

In that case you might find your self in trouble, so try asking the creator or if you find the word “転載禁止”, stay away from it. Thanks for reading.

2014.1 讃岐そば太郎

i want to add to this a personal experience, that I once saw an author I really, really love, was making doujinshi but she wasn’t selling it online and I had no way of buying it. So I shoot her a PM and asked if there was a way for maybe arrange something, and she sent me the doujin herself, in exchange for postcards (i added a few cute magnets to the package) of my country, since she didn’t have an account I could send her money to. Not only did she send me the doujin along with a mini story she’d also done, she made a drawing of the pairing the doujin was for just for me and sent it along with the doujin.

Japanese authors are kawaii as hell, much as I enjoy free things on the internet (obviously), please respect an author’s wish

As someone who has also gotten free things from authors (though it was a Vocaloid producer in my case) due to  being unable to find them online, I can only nth this times a million. Yes, it sucks that these things are hard to get your hands on due to living overseas, but the most important thing is to respect the people who make them in the first place.

Net neutrality is dead

At least that’s the verdict of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which today struck down a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order from 2010 that forced Internet service providers (ISPs) like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner Cable to abide by the principles of network neutrality. These principles broadly stipulate that ISP network management must be transparent, and that ISPs can’t engage in practices that block, stifle or discriminate against (lawful) websites or traffic types on the Internet.

That’s the bare bones story, wrapped in ugly acronyms (FCC, ISP, etc.). But why should you care that network neutrality (“net neutrality”) may be gone for good?

1. No more net neutrality means ISPs can now discriminate against content they dislike.

Everyone gets their Internet from an Internet service provider — an ISP like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast or Time Warner Cable. Under net neutrality rules, these ISPs have to treat all content you access over the Internet “roughly the same way" — they can’t speed up traffic from websites they like or delay competitor’s traffic.

Now, with net neutrality gone, ISPs can discriminate, favoring their business partners while delaying or blocking websites they don’t like. Think your cable CEO hates free online porn? Now you’ll know for sure!

2. No more net neutrality means ISPs can now force websites to PAY for faster content delivery.

You know how some sites you go to just load slower than others? Usually, that’s just because the slower site is image heavy, poorly coded, or dealing with intense server load. But with net neutrality gone, ISPs can now start charging hefty fees to websites that want quick content delivery — shifting the long load times to poorer sites that can’t pay up.

Prefer indie retailers to Amazon.com? You may be in for a frustrating future.

3. Destroying net neutrality is bad for small businesses.

Put together items one and two and it becomes clear — negating net neutrality is bad for small businesses. If ISPs force website owners pay for faster load times, tiny retailers and personal websites will be the ones to suffer from slower content delivery.

Alternately — or additionally — ISPs will have no reason not to favor partner sites: Time Warner Cable, for instance, might favor the website of CNN (owned by the Time Warner Corporation) over the websites of competing cable news networks MSNBC and Fox News. Still, it’s the indies again that will lose out here. While Time Warner Cable might favor CNN and Comcast MSNBC, independent news networks almost certainly won’t get special treatment from any ISPs. Expand this out to music sites, web publishing, etc., and you begin to see the problem.

In extreme cases, ISPs may hinder or block content that isn’t produced by partners —much like AT&T did when it owned the telephone networks back in the day.

4. Without net neutrality, entire types of online traffic (like Netflix) may be in jeopardy.

Netflix watchers and BitTorrent users might want to beware — soon your beloved services may not work like they used to. Now that net neutrality’s down for the count, ISPs can discriminate against entire types of traffic: For instance, an ISP could slow or block all peer-to-peer file sharing, or all online video streaming.

Think it sounds unbelievably stupid for an ISP to stifle a certain traffic types indiscriminately? Comcast has seen reason to stifle both streaming video and peer-to-peer in the past.

From an ISP’s perspective, discriminating against some traffic types makes business sense: Many ISPs are also cable television providers, which means the “cord-cutting" enabled by peer-to-peer and streaming online video isn’t good for their bottom line.

5. Without net neutrality, your ISPs can make even more money without actually improving the Internet.

Right now, America’s broadband is slow. It’s slow because ISPs can already make gobs of money by charging the rich a ton for high-quality Internet while leaving the rest of America with subpar (or no) service.

Now, with net neutrality gone, ISPs will be able to make even more money off their existing customer base. They won’t need to improve service or bring broadband to rural areas because they’ll be able to keep growing (financially, at least) by charging content providers more for faster delivery and charging customers more for faster access. In all likelihood, Tuesday’s ruling means the problems with America’s Internet will be magnified.

This FINALLY shows up on my dashboard and it only has 300 notes.  

Here’s a petition on Whitehouse.gov that needs 88,000+ by the middle of February:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/restore-net-neutrality-directing-fcc-classify-internet-providers-common-carriers/5CWS1M4P

SIGNAL BOOST THE FUCK OUT OF THIS SHIT AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE AIN’T HAVIN’ IT!

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A US CITIZEN TO SIGN THIS. Why should someone outside the US care? What passes in one industrialised nation gives companies and politicians more leverage to pass similar laws in their own.

Having this sort of discrimination in the hands of companies has political consequences in addition to the ones mentioned above. Think of the influence these ISPs would have if allowed to keep these powers? Any ISP with a political bias, or influenced by a political party, would have the power to direct access to information on the internet at their will.

SIGN AND REBLOG LIKE CRAZY.