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

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1937

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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 20 2017, @07:23PM (6 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 20 2017, @07:23PM (#570815) Homepage Journal

    S'what they get for walking around a chicken leg under their arm. Nice complete dodge of the issue, by the way.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:30PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:30PM (#570834)

    The issue was capitalism and monopolies, and it was addressed by pointing out that capitalism leads to monopolies unless you have massive government regulation (non free market).

    You responded with a red herring

    "My model" has created essentially every prosperous nation the world has ever seen. I'll stand by that record any day.

    I responded with a similar level of critical analysis regarding your mental condition.

    You respond with:

    S'what they get for walking around a chicken leg under their arm

    Clearly you are a borderline psychotic who should have his firearm license replaced with a nice padded cell.

    Nice complete dodge of the issue, by the way.

    You are correct, I did not address your stupid point because it was stupid. You want to look at only the positives and ignore the negatives, you should change your name to The MIghty Ostrich. You need some learnin' boy, most of the US domination has been through shady tactics of empire building and has little to do with capitalism vs. communism.

    • (Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:57PM (4 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 20 2017, @08:57PM (#570845) Homepage Journal

      You refuse to address the issue because you are wrong and you know it. Capitalism has created the vast majority of the world's wealth. Socialism and Communism have destroyed more wealth than they have created.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @10:48PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @10:48PM (#570883)

        Why bother arguing with an ideologue? Common sense doesn't matter, just your crappy simplistic viewpoint of the world. China would beg to differ, it took them a while to catch up but they're about to leave the US and other Western countries in the dust. You'll be that old semi-senile guy yelling "capitalism!" while all the young folks go about building a better world. Most likely it will involve capitalism, because as I always say the world needs a mix. Only morons such as yourself think capitalism is the end-all-be-all. I blame propaganda, but I also adhere to certain amounts of personal responsibility and lay the blame upon you as well for being too lazy to get a real education.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @12:11AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @12:11AM (#570918)

          Why bother arguing with an ideologue?

          Why did you bother typing out a full paragraph to say "nuh uh!"?

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:51PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:51PM (#571241)

            Cause going through the trouble of getting sources about socialized healthcare is a waste of time, your brain twists around, moves the goal posts, and does back flips coming up with reasons that reality is wrong. Posting a quick paragraph about your stupidity is easy, spending time on documenting exactly WHY is time consuming and therefore not something I'll do for an argument with an ostrich.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:05PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:05PM (#571253)

              I'm not TMB. I'm just an AC asking you why you think playground namecalling is anything more than your own mental masterbation.

              Interesting to note that you think backing up your own viewpoints is too time consuming.