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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the brace-for-impact dept.

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Net neutrality advocates are planning two days of protest in Washington DC this month as they fight off plans to defang regulations meant to protect an open internet.

A coalition of activists, consumer groups and writers are calling on supporters to attend the next meeting of the Federal Communications Commission on 26 September in DC. The next day, the protest will move to Capitol Hill, where people will meet legislators to express their concerns about an FCC proposal to rewrite the rules governing the internet.

The FCC has received 22 million comments on "Restoring Internet Freedom", the regulator's proposal to dismantle net neutrality rules put in place in 2015. Opponents argue the rule changes, proposed by the FCC's Republican chairman Ajit Pai, will pave the way for a tiered internet where internet service providers (ISPs) will be free to pick and choose winners online by giving higher speeds to those they favor, or those willing or able to pay more.

The regulator has yet to process the comments, and is reviewing its proposals before a vote expected later this year.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/15/washington-dc-net-neutrality-protests-restoring-internet-freedom


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:50PM (#570702)

    Xeer [wikipedia.org] must be the model we're looking for. An overview:

    Different groups within Somali society undertake oral agreements with each other to define xeer law. Despite this informal nature there is a series of generally accepted principles, agreements and ideas that constitute xeer, referred to collectively as xissi adkaaday. These are: the payment of diyya (livestock, usually healthy female camels) by the collective group (clan, sub-clan, lineage or diyya group) from which an offender originates as compensation for the crimes of murder, bodily assault, thievery, rape and defamation of character, given to the victim or victim's family; the protection of vulnerable or respected members of society such as the elderly, women, children, poets, guests and religious people; obligations to the family such as the payment of a dowry to a bride; the rights of a widower to marry the dead wife's sister and the inheritance of a widow by the dead man's brother; the punishments for elopement; the division and use of natural resources like water and land.

    Does that sound like it?

    I wonder if it's possible to declare oneself an independent diyya group. Nothing gets under my skin more than being held accountable for the words and actions of others on a collective and several basis due to circumstance of birth.