From Reuters:
A group of 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia late Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to reinstate the Obama administration's 2015 landmark net neutrality rules and reject the Trump administration's efforts to preempt states from imposing their own rules guaranteeing an open internet.
The states, led by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, filed a lawsuit in January after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in December along party lines to reverse rules that barred internet service providers from blocking or throttling traffic or offering paid fast lanes, also known as paid prioritization.
Several internet companies filed a separate legal challenge on Monday to overturn the FCC ruling, including Mozilla Corp, Vimeo Inc, Etsy Inc, and numerous media and technology advocacy groups.
The FCC handed sweeping new powers to internet providers to recast how Americans use the internet — as long as they disclose any changes. The new rules took effect in early June but major providers have made no changes in internet access.
[...] The U.S. Senate voted in May to keep the Obama-era internet rules, but the measure is unlikely to be approved by the House of Representatives or the White House.
The state attorney generals suing represent states with 165 million people — more than half the United States population — and include California, Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Tuesday August 21 2018, @02:16PM (25 children)
It is important to realize that the only reason ISPs have not already turned your internet connections in to a mess of cable-channel like tiered subscriptions is to make it look like net neutrality is not needed.
Once all opposition to net neutrality is finally dead, buried, and forgotten, they will turn up the heat slowly. And in time you will have extra charges such "Facebook(R)(TM) and Twitter(R)(TM) priority access package", "Youtube video acceleration package", "Netflix gold bandwidth++", "Soylent FastTroll Service", or such and such. Some of which will be the only way to access certain content at all.
I don't look forward to that. There is big money in it and consumertards will happily pay for it.
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:12PM (24 children)
Oh, I'm sick of fast trolling.
For goodness sake, people, take your time and come with a well made, in a good taste, slow trolling.
(Alternatively, at least once in a while and even if only for variety, you could accept an aristarchus submission)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Subsentient on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:19PM (3 children)
Challenge accepted.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:33PM (2 children)
Well, fuck off if you call this "in good taste".
(Score: 3, Funny) by deimtee on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:18PM
You don't like peanut butter?
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:26AM
Oh, it has plenty of tastes.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:31PM (3 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7oEYe4ePc [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:37PM (2 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Tuesday August 21 2018, @04:08PM (1 child)
I don't need your handouts. You can't buy me "I just had sex" man. [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @04:42PM
Stay vigilant, you can't trust the system. Maaan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:56PM (15 children)
Don't side with aristarchus. His preferred submission is vapid political garbage, filled with flamebait. We don't need that shitty flavor for variety. Since he won't put it in a journal because he wants to make a "point", it's his own fault if he can't get his "message" out. Finally, spamming unrelated articles to bitch about it is the worst thing ever, unless you love to see good stories get derailed. And yes, even zero comments is preferable to one stupid aristarchus comment. The personal attacks against janrinok are also rubbish.
Given that the editors have no obligation to publish any particular submission, the temper tantrums and bad behavior are not helping. We'll just delete his submissions faster, until he submits something publishable. Many tech and science stories have a political angle, or a Thiel behind the wheel. Out of stories that aren't tech or science related, many can still be interesting [nytimes.com] or relevant [go.com].
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @04:35PM (7 children)
Allow me to note this has a good potential to sound authoritative. Borderline authoritarian.
Did you intended that way (with an "... or else" almost implied)?
Hang on a bit, is there something like "our need" when it comes to S/N?
I can agree with "my need", "ethanol-fueled's need", "VIM A/C's need", but I'm not sure those needs has more overlapping than the simple "post comments in S/N forum". Do they?
Please note that I intended all the requests for clarifications above in the general/meta context, outside of "aristarchus submissions" one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:08PM (6 children)
It's an appeal, not a demand.
We need to post submissions of a certain quality, or the userbase will gradually evaporate and the site will die. Alt-right fun hour may be an entertaining variety to you, but it's not a healthy one. We've seen plenty of people leave due to excessive political stories in the past.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:12PM (5 children)
That is not how you write an appeal. Your posts definitely have an authoritarian streak to them, but I can't really refute the excessive political stories complaint.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:17PM (4 children)
Guess I'll have to practice by writing more demands. I mean appeals.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:38PM (3 children)
May I appeal to you do so?
Please, set aside some time for practice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @07:16PM (2 children)
Some people have trouble being subservient even for politeness. Many are taught to be the bullshitting confident types who tell people to lead, follow, or get out of the way.
It is a problem, everyone trying to act like the silverback alpha when in reality few qualify for boy scout troop leader. Usually the loudest most demanding types are the least deserving.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:27AM
Silverback alpha chad goes buuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrp.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 22 2018, @12:32AM
Watch some movies placed in the British Victorian era, you'll notice many masters asking servants using something on the line of "Can you bring some..., please?" Was it any chance the master sound subservient?
Of course the servant was expected the s/he actually could so there was actually no choice given.
Nowadays equiv - if your manager asks you 'can you fix up your shit, please?', will be sound up subservient or menacing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @04:54PM (5 children)
Listen, is 3AM around here and tomorrow I have enough to work, so I might not be able to stay onto this thread as much as I like (or need?)
Maybe you should ponder on the "provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion" bit.
Especially since you replied to a small print remark in the footnote of a comment asking for "take your time and come with a well made, in a good taste, slow trolling".
Or would you prefer a "whoosh" instead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:18PM (4 children)
I'd rather offer a superfluous explanation than allow any sympathy to be misplaced, as it has been in the past.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:55PM (3 children)
My apologies. I'll grin next time.
No hard feelings, Ok?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:12PM (2 children)
Get some sleep!
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday August 21 2018, @06:22PM (1 child)
· [xkcd.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 22 2018, @01:07PM
Ha! I had 386 printed on fridge magnets and gave several of them to friends.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:01PM
I think takyon just got slow-trolled!