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Fight for the Future reports via Common Dreams
Urban Dictionary, Bandcamp, Automattic (who run WordPress), and Discord are among latest major web platforms to join the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality scheduled for July 12th to oppose the FCC's plan to slash Title II, the legal foundation for net neutrality rules that protect online free speech and innovation.
[...] More than 50,000 people, sites, and organizations have signed on to the effort overall, and more announcements from major companies are expected in the coming days. Participants will display prominent messages on their homepages on July 12 or encourage users to take action in other ways, using push notifications, videos, social media, and emails.
See the announcement for the day of action here: https://battleforthenet.com/july12
See examples of what sites are doing on July 12 here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12#join
The effort is led by many of the grassroots groups behind the largest online protests in history including the SOPA blackout and the Internet Slowdown. The day of action will focus on grassroots mobilization, with public interest groups activating their members and major web platforms providing their visitors with tools to contact Congress and the FCC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 06 2017, @11:01PM (6 children)
Would you care to elaborate who the supporters of network neutrality are and provide examples of things they've gotten wrong?
You seem to have excellent technical skills, so I'm curious and somewhat surprised to hear that.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by jmorris on Thursday July 06 2017, @11:40PM (5 children)
Did you even click through to the offered link?
Lets start with the "other" site and their menagerie of associated brands is a sponsor. Along with the defectives at Moz Corp. But those are, like the other tech site sponsors, just hipster douches who generally haven't a clue about political things so just support the Progs out a reflex action to be "good people". The dozen or so porn sites are just more hipsters looking for free PR. No, look at the real filth in that rogues gallery.
Look at the primary organizers, Center for Media Justice? Anything with "justice" in the name is a giveaway btw, Demand Progress? Aren't even trying to hide are they? ALA is a huge red flag, they are fully SJW converged, having long since abandoned their original mission. Change.org, Common cause, Moveon.org and Obama's PAC OFA?, yup, check, check, check and check they all gotta be in there and sure enough.... what does Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network have to do with Internet governance issues, or is this just a Progressive meetup? If you have to ask you are beyond help.
In fact the only disappointment I see there is that Brave fell for this crap. They should know better.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @12:25AM
[begin encrypted message] Special Secret Social Justice Warrior Convergence Force, jmorris Squad: subject back to normal. Preparing to block him on July 12, along with the rest of the internets. He seems to think he is talking to someone besides himself. Kind of cute, if it were not so creepy. jmorris Squad out. [end encrypted message]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Lagg on Friday July 07 2017, @12:54AM (3 children)
Bitch pls.
I'm not letting myself get away with +modded shitpost. So I looked at the supporters. All of them. And will describe them until I hit the post cap.
What here is offensive exactly? Unless we want to go by the definition of "what I don't like". I mean feel free but meanwhile I'll be over here being a goddamn man. There is so little reason to fear or suspect these people. There's like 1-3 obvious scams out of all of them. You think you'll find that ratio of self interest to country interest anywhere else in politics currently?
1) Fight for the future: Known digital liberty advocate around for 5+ years
2) Center for Media Justice: Ran by brown people to help brown people and around for 15 years in places I've witnessed racism myself because california is generally fucked
3) freepress action fund: Already succeeded at what the administration failed at: Transparency [freepress.net]
4) Demand Progress: 5+ yearrs, helped initiate the SOPA killing movement
5) Amazon: The worst gray goo imaginable, but have strong financial incentive in net neutrality, and that's fine.
6) Etsy: Those horrible people and those horrible rhinestone jewelry
7) Kickstarter: I got an anamanaguchi album once, paid $15 into what ended up being a guy's wedding fund once.
8) Netflix: Huge incentive to encourage net neutrality and I'm fucking tired of my new 250GB meter that is intentionally there because of them. So they're stepping up
9) Twitter: Toxic pit of slime I deleted my account on. Also regularly compliments net neutrality and is one of the more privacy-defending social media sites in the world. Doesn't mean much, but they are the best of the worst. The company I mean.
10) Vimeo: Same incentive as netflix
11) Github: Full of SJW, bad code, pandering projects that are also bad code (Atom). Also one of the most commercially useful VCS hosts in recent history.
12) Internet Association: Fancy name for a collective of our most beloved internet monopolies such as google. But once again, they have incentive.
13) PIA: The only VPN provider I've ever trusted and one of the fastest. Known for encouraging online rights. Seriously, they're aight [privateinternetaccess.com]. I recommend.
14) Reddit: Toxic pit, deleted my account there too years ago. Can't deny my personal hatred so won't defend it.
15) Y Combinator: News aggregator. Exactly as bad/good as its curators. Just like SN.
16) Mozilla: Money bleeding SJW bullshit. But incentive and kind of need net neutrality for their future projects.
17) PornHub: The ultimate expression of online freedom. Why not.
18) okcupid: Dating site?
19) 18MR: Asian multi-interest advocate site. Which I can literally say nothing else about because it is what it is.
20) 99designs: Hipster design studio, 5 years old
21) AALL: Nonprofit that teaches people this stuff [wikipedia.org]. Like 100 years old
22) ACLU: You know what the American Civil Liberties Union is
23) Action Network: Activist mobilization. I've heard plenty of criticism. But fuck anyone that thinks murikans don't have an inherent right to protest for anything
24) Acquia: Some startup for The Cloud(TM) and CMSs
25) adafruit: Sells the pi and some cool parts
26) AdBlock: I didn't know this existed
27) AdBlockPlus: Corporate whores - but ones that benefit from net neutrality if I understand how it can affect ad placement and choice correctly
28) ALA: We learned who this was in school. As close as one possibly gets to tangible omnipresent literacy
29) AnchorFree: VPN provider around for 10+ years, so probably at least as reliable as PIA (I offer no guarantee)
30) ASBC: Probably self-interested cunts, 501c4. Vague allusions to lobbying.
31) Atlasssian: The company that acquired bitbucket and maintains sourcetree. They are less immediately unlikable than github even though they like eating other companies.
32) Automattic: Did wordpress.com. Which is unforgivable
33) TAG: I don't know what that is but I think it's because I don't books. Author rights advocate. If the adminstration and FCC get their way this will be a good thing to have around.
34) bandcamp: Awww yiiisssss [bandcamp.com]
35) BestVPN: I'm not researching more VPN hosts. They're fucking VPNs.
36) Bigchaindb: Some kind of blockchain hax. Probably registered because of bitcoin. I don't know how net neutrality affects it but maybe foresight.
37) bittorrent: I don't even know what they are as an entity anymore besides a corporation that doesn't do anything. But I guess the BT brand helps.
38) BitBucket: See Atlassian. Don't know why it's twice.
39) Bloody Disgusting: Horror movie streaming and podcasts. I can't even leave netflix running when I'm doing chores every day anymore without going over the cap. So I can easily see their motivation.
40) BoingBoing: Dumb name, but at least they think [boingboing.net]. A thinking site supporting net neutrality is expected. Which is far off from the "Imma drop my ball and run home" shit I'm seeing from people now.
41) Brave: Some fancy looking company that seems to be making yet another privacy browser that does ad blocking and stuff.
42) Burlington Telecom: The single most highest reviewed ISP I've ever seen. And is also a locally owned fiber network.
43) CASH Music: Music artist advocate. Trying to help find new funding models. Which is just plain laudable because the fuckfaces at the FCC and RIAA weren't going to take that step.
44) CCIA: Collective similar to the one above with google and amazon but trying super hard to act like they're not that.
45) ccMixter: Creative commons music and voice snippets that people can mix together to create new stuff.
46) CDT: 501c3 organization, general internet freedom advocate and entrepreneur thingy.
47) change.org: Online petitions. Take it how you want
48) checkout.com: Payment gateway provider. No clue what business they have here.
49) iChess.com: this is actually really a scam, it's gameknot.
50) Civicrm: Open source integration for blogs or something meant to faciliate communication to constiuents. Used by 10K or so nonprofits per their claim.
51) Codecademy: Free code learnings? Never used it but if it's bad then it can go straight to hellybelly
52) Color of Change: Another brown people helping brown people group, oh noes
53) Common Cause: Nonpartisan advocate of democracy, which I can literally find no fault with having around at this juncture.
54) Consumer Reports: Nonprofit review site I guess. I've been told to use it but never have. I am aware that it probably works for the people who use it however.
55) CoS: Music magazine or something. The site wouldn't load. Don't know what their game is either
56) Coworker.org: Campaigns (online petitions) for complaining about your workplace. and goddamnit if the barista wants paid leave they should have it. Have you seen starbucks customers? I don't go in there now because I'm scared I'll accidentally act like them!
57) Creative Commons: Of all places soylent is going to be the place where I don't need to describe this.
58) CREDO: Mobile provider that donates to activist causes. Honestly might look into it if there's coverage out here in the armpit of arizona. And it isn't more than t-mobile.
59) DailyKos: Shitflinging website ala Fox and CNN. But just like Fox, CNN, you and DailyKos I strongly believe anyone should be allowed to make retarded statements and I will die for them to do so. Killing net neutrality is not conducive to it, so probably their reasoning.
60) DeviantArt: Where the 2% of porn people haven't figured out how to do in real life lives. And some fanart too. Okay so I don't use deviant art much but I do know they're about as harmful as furries. Because I'm pretty sure most are. (pls don't hate me if you use DA)
61) Discourse: Glorified BBS
62) Discord: Chat and voice that works similarly to Slack
63) DigitalOcean: VPSs
64) Digital West: ISP that may or may not be notable
65) Democracy for America: "political action committee", I have no clue what that's supposed to mean but it was founded by Senator Howard Dean. Who I also don't know.
66) Dread Central: More or less in the vein of Bloody Disgusting
67) DreamHost: Heh, I didn't know they were still alive. Lame shared server hosting provider
68) Dribbble: srs artist community
69) DuckDuckGo: Some fascist search engine (no not rly i just know people stopped reading by this point, ilu d2g)
70) EFF: My main homies and the only reason I understand 2.3% of the first part of digital law.
71) Engine: Couldn't track down, getting research fatigue so didn't feel like disambiguating.
72) Exaptive: I don't know what I'm looking at. Probably a friend, self-interested or looking for free publicity https://www.exaptive.com/usecases [exaptive.com]
73) Experts Exchange: Stackexchange but for experts.
74) Fark.com: Comedy news/website. Lead me onto the fact that Sheriff Joe Arpaio - well known in AZ - is still a shithead. so that's nice
75) Faithful Internet: Group that thinks all religions will live together farting peace and rainbows and is probably a real SJW playground. But you know what given what I've seen lately and my real life experience with Denver SJWs. It's part of the reason I find it absurd people currently fear "the liberals". Harmless at best, cringeworthy and annoying at worst.
76) FiftyThree: Artisanal iPhone paper apps. Yes really.
77) FMA: Freemusicarchive.org , I got some tracks there for a video once.
78) FunnyOrDie: "Comedy" site that is surely ironically named because I'm pretty sure they once portrayed AZ rednecks having deeeeep south accents and got killed by mexican zombies. This is probably the one legit case where I'd not blame you for siding with the FCC. Literally hitlerstalinsatin
79) GoldenFrog: Moar VPNs, and the name of Trump's garage band.
Shit. I hate hipsters, SJWs, california as a whole and attention seekers. Very much so. But the thing is I've dealt with Denver hipsters, SJWs and I've been to california several times. They are harmless at best and cringeworthy at worst, people that hold politics like this. I mean the Google campus was hard to survive a visit to. But I handled it. And don't claim my perspective is "right".
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @02:30AM (1 child)
"political action committee", I have no clue what that's supposed to mean
Wow. You really have led a sheltered life.
A PAC funnels money to political campaigns.
founded by Senator Howard Dean. Who I also don't know
A physician. He is currently a lobbyist for Big Pharma.
He ran for president on the Blue ticket.
TPTB didn't favor him and his "Liberal" ideas; Lamestream Media found a way to crucify him. [google.com]
33) TAG
71) Engine
Examples of why I say a business should come up with unique names for stuff.
Don't have any originality among your own people?
Hire someone who makes up trade names for drugs.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Friday July 07 2017, @02:46AM
I've lead a sheltered live because I don't understand PACs? Uh, okay. I figured it was just because i was working and shit and it's about 3000 levels above my station. Given your usage of "lamestream media" I can get an educated guess of your outlook. I hope you understand how backwards that manipulation has made you someday after telling me that. I'm pretty sure it was you I mentioned the fact that I'm from Arizona and did a lot of carpentry and handyman work before I was lucky and got into something that wasn't brutal. But I never remember because you do this AC thing for some reason :/.
Fair enough though, I will safely increment the scam count of all of them to 1-4 from 1-3. TAG was actually my aconym. Sorry. It refers to The Author's Guild. Fairly uh, "organic" name. But it's also over a hundred years old.
But yeah as far Engine goes couldn't find a damn thing. That is the laziest name in history.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @03:36AM
15 - Y Combinator is Venture Capital ("seed accelerator", tech investments), but yes, they run a site named Hackernews with different stories.