Net Neutrality

For those of you who don’t know what net neutrality is:

“Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating most of the Internet must treat all data on the Internet the same, and not discriminate or charge deferentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.” - Wikipedia. 

TL:DR It’s the internet’s deceleration of independence.

This git person of ill dispute:  

Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, wants to take Net Neutrality away from YOU by DECEMBER. once it’s gone it WILL NOT COME BACK. I should not have to explain to you why this has to be stopped. 

cr1tikal put it best: “You’ll basically be buying loot boxes from your ISP. The internet will have have loot boxes where you pay more for certain websites and you’ll be buying packages that come with a random assortment of websites.”

That’s just the beginning. 

Without the internet many of us would have never had the opportunity to meet and express ideas. YOUR free speech is on the line here and if we cross that line I fear for our futures. Many of us only know our histories because of the internet, we must refuse to let ourselves be erased again. 

WHAT CAN I DO?

Simple. Do what y’all did to EA, the public outcry and rage against the lootbox and gambling systems had EA back peddling. Apply that to stopping the FCC and we wont loose Net Neutrality. Remember governments exist to serve the people, not the other way. Not banks, not corporations.

have to put this on my main blog because this kind of thing is a threatening menace to everybody who needs the Internet to survive.

IF YOU ARE READING THIS, CHANCES ARE YOU GO ON THE INTERNET EVERYDAY. THE FCC IS NOW PLANNING ON REPEALING NET NEUTRALITY. THIS MEANS THAT POPULAR WEBSITES WILL RUN SLOWLY UNTIL YOU PAY AN EXTRA FEE. WE WOULD NO LONGER HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF USING WEBSITES AND RESEARCHING FOR FREE. 

TEXT ‘RESIST’ AT 50409 AND TELL YOUR SENATORS THAT NET NEUTRALITY NEEDS TO STAY.

This is important and everyone should know about it. Ajit Pai is an unapologetic piece of shit and he needs to be opposed at every turn. Signal boost. 

trump and the GOP want to take  the Internet from poor people.

It is a method if restricting people’s access to information and knowledge.

As a librarian, this is unacceptable.

You need the internet to get a job nowadays also,

The US Government just took a stance on “should poor kids be able to do their homework?” and that stance is “No!”

So the game plan, I’m guessing, is to force poor kids to fall behind, as an excuse to drag “underperforming” students out of the classroom and into coal mines where our new Secretary of Education thinks they belong.

All of this and it is so depressing but WE have to continue to fight this Regime!

To anyone who thinks the internet is a luxury … 

College applications: online

SAT prep: online

Homework research: online

Job applications: online

Up to date information on helplines: online

Accurate sex education: online

why net neutrality matters, in two images

This matters, for all of us!

also visit battleforthenet.

Make your voice heard, that’s what artists have been doing since forever anyways!

The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies control over what we see and do online. If they get their way, they’ll allow widespread throttling, blocking, censorship, and extra fees. On July 12th, the Internet will come together to stop them.

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important.

Net neutrality is in danger —  and it could affect your ability to play games online

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Internet providers have been lobbying to overturn the entire set of privacy rules for a couple months now — in short, they don’t like that they’ll soon have to ask permission to share your web browsing habits.

And with today’s action, it seems that they’re likely to get their wish. The stricter consumer privacy protections aren’t yet in effect, and the data security portion that would have gone live tomorrow is now on hold. The commission doesn’t plan to implement the requirements until it gets a chance to revisit the entire set of rules.

FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s initial goal is to scale back the rules so that they match the Federal Trade Commission’s weaker privacy requirements. The FTC’s rules governed internet providers until net neutrality was put into place; the commission then passed its own set of privacy rules to replace them.

Pai argues that having separate rules governing ISPs and websites is confusing for consumers, so it’s better to just weaken the rules to match. “[Americans] shouldn’t have to be lawyers or engineers to figure out if their information is protected differently depending on which part of the Internet holds it,” Pai says in a joint statement with acting FTC chair Maureen Ohlhausen.

The commission also points out that “broadband providers have released a voluntary set of ‘ISP Privacy Principles’ that are consistent” with the FTC’s framework. So there you have it: broadband providers promised they’ll behave, so it’s all good.

In the long run, though, Pai would like to completely return privacy oversight to the FTC — which would require undoing Title II and net neutrality. “We still believe that jurisdiction over broadband providers’ privacy and data security practices should be returned to the FTC, the nation’s expert agency with respect to these important subjects,” says Pai and Ohlhausen. “All actors in the online space should be subject to the same rules, enforced by the same agency. “

Pai kind of sprung this whole thing on the commission last Friday, asking that commissioners take a vote by the end of today. It passed 2–1, with the commission’s lone Democrat, Mignon Clyburn, opposing.

I hope all them reddit meme warriors for Trump are getting what they wanted cause I mean it would be such a shame if he almost immediately attacked net neutrality or something