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U.S. citizens and residents have one day left to comment on the FCC's plan to kill net neutrality. Final comments are due tomorrow Wednesday, August 30th, by end-of-day Eastern time (UTC -5).
Once the comment period closes, the FCC is supposed to review the feedback and use it as guidance to revise its proposal. However, it probably won't hurt to also contact your congressional representatives, given the antagonism of the FCC's current leadership towards both the public input and net neutrality itself.
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You Have One Day Left to Comment on the FCC's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality
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World War Three can be averted by adherence to a strictly enforced dress code!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:07PM (2 children)
Not even wrong.
If the government refuses to give us net-neutrality, then the answer is to allow anybody who wishes to compete in the telecommunications space to do so.
It is government that limits you or I from providing a net-neutral internet service. The solution is not to force corporations to do so. The solution is to allow anyone willing to do so.
This is crony-ism on a massive scale. The government granting its friends the privilege of operating an oligopoly on supplying internet services, and oh what a surprise, it is willing to grant them even greater privileges of charging customers and clients more for using their pipes. Modern day highwaymen, but granted royal privilege to collect tolls, nothing more.
You Yanks seems to have forgotten you fought a war about shit like this right?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:37PM
We haven't forgotten, but please remember that our political system has been corrupted by corporate bri... *ahem* lobbying. The rare times that the people's will has won out have almost always been overridden by some judge / mayor / whatever that was bought off. Paired with a massive centrally controlled propaganda machine (hollywood / mass media) we have a hard time convincing regular people that these issues are important. Until we hit dystopian levels of abuse that affect these regular people more directly we are not going to have enough support to get these changes done.
So trust me, many many of us yanks realize this.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Tuesday August 29 2017, @06:38PM
Privateers vs Pirates...
The first carries a contract from the government allowing them to perform as the second.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge