Net Neutrality

[dreamflower]

If you aren't familiar with the issue, here's a hilarious (but very real) recap:

If you want to do something about it:

http://act.freepress.net/letter/internet_fcc_nprm_oliver/?t=1&akid=4797.10006158.K--m9M

And:

http://act.credoaction.com/call/call_obama_nn_2014/?akid=10860.6788291.PqW-ti&rd=1&t=1

Comments

[mariole.livejournal.com]

That was AWESOME!!!

To me, the most telling point was the Comcast service graph, where they obviously were slowing service until Netflix folded. How are we not prosecuting these guys!?!?

[dreamflower]

Yeah, that was pretty obvious, as was the CEO who claimed it wouldn't be a "fast lane and a slow lane" but a "hyperspeed land and a fast lane", begging the question of why there should be any difference at all.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that and for the link to comment. I definitely gave the FCC a piece of my mind.

[dreamflower]

Good! That's what I hoped some would do; I've been signing petitions to save net neutrality for over a year now.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

That was BRILLIANT and thought provoking.

[dreamflower]

It was very brilliant! I'd never heard of him before I got the link from CREDO, but he was both funny AND made his case.

And if you Google his name plus "net neutrality", you'll learn that his appeal bore fruit: the following day calls to the FCC comment line were so heavy it was shut down.

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

I left a comment for whatever good it will do.

[dreamflower]

Well I don't know how much good my comments will do either, but at least I have the satisfaction of knowing I tried.

Big corporations are going to overreach themselves one of these days, but I probably won't still be alive to see them topple.

; '

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

unfortunately i am very familiar with this blatant elitist parody of human behaviour, like a donkey's ass is faster than a jet plane. the donkey was here long before the jet plane and leaves a smaller footprint, don't you think? billy bragg sang the words of woody guthrie to say, "those fascists are bound to lose..."

if they frick it, we say fuck it and build our own frigate. like some one corporate dick has the monopoly on free speech... just a bunch of fucking monkeys in grey suits behind artificial radiation projectors stuck in the matrix.

i'm free, on the other hand, to go outside and play in the sunshine!
; )