Man, I'm so glad that Internet is much more free now. Now I can go to any site I want (and that Comcast/AT&T/Verizon) and I'll only have to pay a little bit more. But that's a small cost to pay for the newfound FREEDOM that we now have, guys. Thank goodness, because I kind of hated having to pay a flat amount for data usage and I would much, much rather be charged for *both* my data usage and the ability to access certain sites.
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(Short Spike)
The internet is public not private so how the fuck do corporations get to decide what get's filtered slowed banned censored !?!? And since when does that decision come down to the whim of some corporate payed slimy turd ? Don't you "free" americans have a strong law basis to prevent power going into the hands of such people ?
Trump for example can't ban muslims from enterng the country because his whim would go against the constitutional laws of the country but this slime turd can do whatever the fuck he wants ?
Can't the public do anything against this snail ball like if we got enought petitions he would lose his job for incopetency and going against the will of the people that he should be representing ?
For fuck sake America this is the time to act this is the time to say that banning net neutrality and thus allowing private individuals to censure information they dislike goes against the 4th amendament and freedom of speech.
Also why are there no celebrities and other influential people of our time rasing awareness and railing against this bullshit ?!!?
It's time to raise up unless you want to fall in the same category as comunist china.
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ps: I give 100.000.000 internet cookies to the motherfucker that kills Ajit Pai.
Kill Ajit Pai in a brutal way and become my personal hero.
(Long Spike)
We don't have a democracy, which noone actually technically does of course but in the U.S. we have a clear corporatocracy cloaked in a "We're a democracy" line. Period. End of story.
(Short Spike)
Since this is such a fucked up thing to do by the corporations i start thinking about alternatives that bypass any and all restrictions that they may want to impose thus keeping the net neutral.
One of the first thing that comes to mind is that browsers like firefox and chrome could encript data automatically thus preventing ISP's from knowing to witch site i connect to and another step would be to set up anonymous proxys that don't allow ISP's to again know where i want to connect to. They just see the user connecting to site x but site x is a proxy and connects for me to say spiked.
Another idea is to make sites decentralized and distributed the way torrent sites work, this way when you connect to say spiked you actually connect to a billion other users and servers that store a part of the content withouth them knowing what they store (software algorithms would take care of that) so they could never bann those infinite connections.
Don't want to go too deep into the technology but this might be possible at least in theory.
They could not stop bit torrent sites and when they tried they just made them more powerfull now there are hundreds, thousands of mirrors for sites like pirate bay and are bassicaly unkillable so we could do the same with the whole of internet servers.
(Short Spike)
I wonder how many bodyguards Pai Boy has to hire to be able to keep doing what he's doing without having an angry mob beating his ass in an alley.
(Old Spike)
(Old Spike)
I think the internet was already heading that way. We had the big YouTube demonitization/advertiser thing a few months ago, Facebook regularly bans things based on a partisan fact checker site, Twitter has it's Trust & Safety Council that is loaded up with radical "progressive" nutcases, and the CEO of Reddit was caught trying to edit people in r/The_Donald's comments via some seemingly untraceable backend method. Censorship on the internet is a thing. It's been a thing, but up until now some people haven't given a shit because it's been all the "right" people getting fucked with. When it's content providers, it's fine because they're a private business. Free speech doesn't apply. When it's ISPs, it's the worst, and we need to start a conversation™ about it.
I think really what it is, is there was a lobbyist war going on. One side decided to direct their propaganda to their interests, while the other side chose theirs. The regimes changed, so yesterdays winner became today's loser, but prizes are only doled out for the people at the top. All of us peasant folk get fucked either way, and instead of directing our anger at society just being garbage all the time because of the usual culprits, we turn on each other...because that's what our chosen propaganda outlets told us to do.
(Long Spike)
well said