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on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:43PM
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The FCC will reveal vote to repeal net neutrality this week
The new rules are expected to be announced on Wednesday, whilst most Americans are distracted by getting home to loved ones for Thanksgiving.
This will then be followed by a vote on 10 December, which would see the 2015 rules designed to protect the internet being torn down.
[...] The important point, as we've said before, is that once the genie is out of the bottle, getting it back in is almost impossible and for our readers outside the US, don't think this doesn't affect you - everything that passes through US servers will be affected in some way and will knock on to you.
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FCC Will Reveal Vote to Repeal Net Neutrality This Week
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:17PM (15 children)
The net neutrality loss is a small defect for an otherwise wonderful president. Life isn't all computer networks and telecom stuff.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:25PM
We also care about self-driving cars and ride-sharing and living in poverty with a gig economy. Merica #2
(Score: 5, Insightful) by julian on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:52PM (11 children)
You're easy to please.
Muslim ban: slapped down in court multiple times
Wall: never getting built except for cute little prototype segments for racist congressmen to LARP around
Hillary: not locked up, never will be
NAFTA: not renegotiated, won't be
World opinion: down, getting worse
Indictments: started, more coming
Thankfully the Obama recovery hasn't been stalled, so Obama gets credit for doing things well enough to carry into Trump's presidency. That doesn't go in Trump's column either.
Man, you must be tired of all this winning! At least liberals are mad, which is all most Trumpkins really care about anyway.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @12:45AM (3 children)
Has anybody without a connection to the other side been indicted yet? Who?
Manafort and Podesta both got indicted for stuff prior to the 2016 campaign, back when both were lobbying democrats in support of Russia.
More coming? I like this. Tony Podesta's brother John was running Hillary's campaign; he's the guy with the weird pizza-related code words in emails that got leaked, and he's the one who made ominous threats about leakers.
(Score: 5, Touché) by julian on Wednesday November 22 2017, @12:50AM (2 children)
All I know is those kids are still down in that basement and only you can save them! You need to grab your AR-15 and get down there, man! You'll be a hero! You're gonna blow this case wide open, champ!
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:12AM (1 child)
Suppose you are John Podesta, yet you have done nothing wrong. (hard to imagine I know) Your weird yet perfectly innocent pizza-related email gets out. People wrongly connect it with pedophile terminology.
Wouldn't you immediately clear that up with an actual explanation for why your pizza-related emails are weird as fuck?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @03:10AM
Well, personally, I wouldn't, because the resulting conspiracy theory was completely loony (maybe 700-800 millitimecubes), and most people don't give a shit about Reddit.
I mean, I've heard some compelling conspiracy theories. That was not one of them. You've at least got to be as compelling as the Flat-Earthers. That's like bare minimum. Or at least be creative like the weather war theory. I really don't see enough weather war on the internet(s). Anyway, try not to exceed 0.5 timecubes.
I still think you all got trolled by somebody who wanted to start an urban legend around the "loli haet pizza" meme in the guise of a conspiracy theory. lurk moar.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @01:00AM
We have solid evidence for the Russia connection now. Two scandals, not one, count them, two scandals that would make Nixon blush!
1. Fusion GPS
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/21/unsealed-fusion-gps-bank-records-show-russia-related-payments/ [dailycaller.com]
2. Uranium One
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/361276-fbi-informant-gathered-years-of-evidence-on-russian-push-for-us [thehill.com]
It's hard waiting for the indictments, but nobody wants to be Russian!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @01:33AM
https://panampost.com/david-unsworth/2017/11/21/media-trump-popular-world-leaders/ [panampost.com]
I think that beating May, Macron, Merkel, and Trudeau is something... not that a non-US popularity contest should matter.
Chinese people like Trump better than Obama. They see him as being relatively strong and honest.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @01:45AM
In a third-world country, a political leader can commit crimes and not face charges. One can be a high-level government official, take bribes or destroy evidence, and get away with it.
Is this what you want? You're really OK with her not being in prison?
We're going to be third-world if that opinion becomes predominant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @03:13AM (3 children)
I just need to know when we can stop thanking Obama. Give us a date, beyond which you'll praise Trump for any growth.
Personally, I like to have them share credit from the election until the summer after the inauguration. If I were being mean, I'd just start after the election, since the stock market has been going up since then.
(Score: 2) by julian on Wednesday November 22 2017, @05:39AM (2 children)
It depends what you're thanking him for. His library? He basically gets credit for that forever. The economy? He gets credit for that as long as it's his policies doing us well...and they still are. It's like how we still thank Truman for showing the Japanese that imperialism causes radiation burns.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @05:55AM
I asked about Trump, and you say "He gets credit for that as long as it's his policies doing us well...and they still are."
Well I'm glad you agree. Tossing out 32% of the Federal Register (regulations) in his first year is quite good. He promised a reduction of 2 for each 1 added, but he actually cut 16 for every 1 added.
In case your "He" meant Obama, tossing out regulations doesn't seem to be an Obama policy.
Compare presidents:
https://cei.org/blog/red-tape-rollback-report-trump-ends-fiscal-year-americas-least-regulatory-president-reagan [cei.org]
That, and even your denial tactic, gets covered here:
http://archive.is/LOVf7#selection-1823.85-1829.152 [archive.is]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @07:51PM
I despise Trump, but to say that Obama brought about some excellent economy is nonsense. Economic inequality is higher than ever. Dodd-Frank was an incredibly weak set of regulations. Obama was a corporate puppet, but not to the extent that Trump is. If you're looking for someone to praise, a politician probably isn't it.
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 22 2017, @12:20AM (1 child)
Thank you for your beautiful, beautiful support!
And believe me, you're gonna LOVE the repeal & replace of "net neutrality." We're going to shut down the failing Fake News Internet, the ISIS Internet, and the pimping sites. the "net neutrality" is part of what we're repealing. Other countries have been eating our lunch on the Internet. That's gonna stop. Obama gave up control of our Internet to Russia, China, and Iran. That's the real Russian collusion, folks.
And the replace is gonna be terrific. As you know, I went to China. The Chinese are smart cookies. They closed up their Internet. Making it very hard for American companies to operate on the Chinese Internet. And keeping out some very divisive messages from radical Islamic extremists. So their economy has grown TREMENDOUSLY. While their people are very happy. Some of the happiest people in the world, probably the happiest. I'll tell you, it's not great for our Internet companies. It's not great for ISIS. But it's a very smart move for China. It's made them happy and rich. What's not to like? So I have some very smart guys looking into, how do we do that here in the USA? How do we make our Internet American again? An America First Internet. We're gonna put American companies first. I guarantee, you'll have a lot of fun with that. And some of you are gonna make a lot of money with that. I promised I'd close up our Internet. It's happening. And you're gonna be happy about it. #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @03:16AM
Will there still be cyber on the internet?