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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday November 21 2017, @10:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-end-of-the-net-as-we-know-it dept.

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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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by jelizondo on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:42PM (4 children)

    by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 21 2017, @11:42PM (#599969) Journal

    China controls the Internet for political power and now the good ol’ U.S. of A. will do it for economic power. Different motives, same result: we will see in the Internet whatever those in power want and nothing else.

    I can understand why the Chinese people don’t rebel against its government, i.e. anyone who tries get shot and forgotten. Why doesn’t people in the U.S. rebel against a government clearly against the people? I believe most people have been converted to the ideology (*) of the free-market.

    I despair of this world.

    (*) I’m against the ideology which is kind of being a Catholic and firmly believing the Pope is infallible, clearly, it is bullshit but the faithful believe it. I'm for the free market but the free market requires some agency, like the government, to maintain a level playing field and preventing abuses from big corporations.

    Believing that the free market by itself will care enough not to pollute our drinking water, not feed us garbage and pay us a living wage is like believing in the infallibility of the Pope. Witness the FCC proposal, the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the shrinking of national parks, et al. Once the government works for the big corporations, the people are nothing and have nothing. Thus my despair, the oppressed can’t fight and the free won’t.

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:14AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday November 22 2017, @02:14AM (#600010) Homepage Journal

    China was having tremendous problems with Mongolians, so they closed up their Internet. They put a "Wall" around their Internet. They call it the Wall, it's not a Wall, it's cyber. But it lets them control their Internet. As you know. And it's been great for their politics, their government runs very smoothly. President Xi, if he wants something, if he works on it hard, it will happen. I guarantee you, it will happen. Their government works very well. Before they built the "Wall" it wasn't so good. When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it, then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. That is a strong, powerful government that put it down with strength. And then they kept down the riot. It was a horrible thing. You don't see that now. When I was in China, it's amazing, you didn't see one protester. I brought Wilbur Ross to Beijing with me, he says "look, not a single protester!" And he was right. They're very happy, their politics are amazing. And the "Wall" has a lot to do with that. It's great for them politically.

    But it's also great for their economy. I think the "Wall" has done a lot for their economy. You look at Tencent, you look at Alibaba, you look at Baidu. Huge companies. Can you imagine if they had to compete with MSN, AOL and Yahoo? They couldn't, they'd be nothing now if not for the "Wall." It protects their Internet from bad political messages, from the ISIS recruiters, the pornographers and all that. But it also protects their businesses. So the money stays in their country. It's an idea wall but it's also a money wall. Their Internet is closed and they have a tremendous economy because of it. We listened to the siren song of globalism, it's hurt our economy very badly. I'm turning it around, closing our Internet is a big part of that. Our economy is really going to take off once we take back our Internet.

    So when we close up our Internet, we have a great model in China. They fixed their politics and they fixed their economy. We need to do the same. We're a divided, mixed-up, not-unified country. Very sick. When you're sick and you go to the doctor, they isolate you. So it doesn't spread. We have a lot of sick ideas on our Internet, we need to isolate it. So they don't spread.

    And my predecessors made some very unfair trade deals, other countries are killing us on trade. A lot of which happens on the Internet. When we TAKE BACK control of our Internet, we can begin to heal the wounds that have divided us. We can take control of the Fake News MSM that has been fomenting divisions. We can UNIFY our country. Like China is unified. And it's going to be great for our economy. The stock people know it, the investors know. The stock markets have gone up tremendously since I was elected. Goldman Sachs, BMO Capital, UBS, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse are all very bullish. I'm Making America Great Again. And taking control of our Internet is a big, big part of that.

    You look at the biggest employers, my government is the biggest. Especially my military. But there just isn't the money to keep that going. Except for my military guys. We're doing the biggest tax CUT in the history of the world, so we have to cut out a lot of government jobs. Sounds bad, it isn't bad. Our economists say it's going to be fine, because our economy is booming like never before.

    Outside of my government, a lot of the biggest employers are also the biggest companies. IBM, McDonald’s, Yum, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target, Kroger, Hewlett-Packard, GE, they all have over 300,000 jobs. Every one. And they're all very big companies. A small company just doesn't make many jobs. I hate to say it, because I love the small companies. I've started hundreds of small companies. But a small company just doesn't make many jobs, you need the big ones. So we're doing everything we can for our biggest, biggest companies. The biggest thing being the tax cut. Which puts them first. Right up there with the American people. Who vote for the Republican Party because we've always stood behind our big businesses (long before the Dems tried to be the party of big business). Who have been voting for us overwhelmingly. Who elected me in a LANDSLIDE. And who are getting tremendous jobs. #MAGA 🇺🇸

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @04:02AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @04:02AM (#600036)

    The Pope is only infallible when he speaks Ex Cathedra. Get with the program heretic.

    • (Score: 1) by jelizondo on Wednesday November 22 2017, @04:34AM

      by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 22 2017, @04:34AM (#600043) Journal

      Still ex-Cahtedra bullshit, get a brain

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @04:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 22 2017, @04:07PM (#600220)

    do what i do

    start finding new hobbies. don't upgrade your os and run the old computers for as long as you can, or at least as long as until you decide you are able to get by not wanting to be surveilled and decried as someone with something to hide since you refuse to do what everyone else does online.

    if you become an old fuddy dotard then you will be excused, even if they don't realize you chose to look like one to save yourself.