posted by
n1
on Monday June 02 2014, @10:15PM
from the if-it-aint-broke,-we'll-find-a-way-to-break-it dept.
from the if-it-aint-broke,-we'll-find-a-way-to-break-it dept.
This last Sunday night, John Oliver gave us a rare example of pop news covering net neutrality, the associated monopolization, revolving door government appointments and the strong-arming of Netflix.
From The Week:
On Sunday night's Last Week Tonight, Oliver tackled net neutrality, the idea that all legal content on the internet should be served up to your house on a level playing field. The Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules that would allow a two-tiered system. Oliver, like most net neutrality proponents, isn't impressed: "The point is, the internet in its current form is not broken, and the FCC is currently taking steps to fix that."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 02 2014, @11:38PM
I don't know the intended audience but maybe sarcasm isn't the best way to get the opinion across? It's not really a laughing matter.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hybristic on Tuesday June 03 2014, @12:14AM
The intended audience makes sarcasm one of the best tools to get the opinion across actually.
(Score: 1) by tnt118 on Tuesday June 03 2014, @12:28AM
See:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/02/colbert-news-study-campaign-financing_n_5431713.html [huffingtonpost.com]
"We're Learning More From Stephen Colbert Than The Actual News, Study Says"
I think I like it here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 03 2014, @12:30AM
Ever heard of John Oliver before?
He used to work for The Daily Show (still might, I have no clue).
He's a comedian.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DrMag on Monday June 02 2014, @11:42PM
Very nicely done on John's part; I've filed my comment with the FCC.
For being the body that has such a heavy influence on this particular topic, it's rather ironic how poorly their website works. It's slow; please be patient, as these people need to hear our voices and hear them clearly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 03 2014, @02:37AM
At first I thought it was intentionally bad to discourage submissions, but Hanlon's razor.
(Score: 1) by ankh on Tuesday June 03 2014, @05:08AM
Amen. Also the FTC website strips out all paragraph breaks. They're not into more than brief comments, I guess.
I inserted -----P------ separators, hoping the text gets read by someone.
Good news is, there were 40,000+ comments when I checked, way way way more than any other issue.
I thought John Oliver did an amazingly good job on this explanation, and made the point that commenting is important.
(Score: 2) by Vanderhoth on Tuesday June 03 2014, @11:16AM
There are actually almost 65,000 comments. The 47,000 are just what was filed in the last 30 days.
I noticed that I can't find ANY filings now on the www.fcc.gov/comments page this morning. Kind of odd, they must be having a server issue ;)
In case anyone is trying to find it, here's a Direct link to the comments for the 14-28 proceeding [fcc.gov]
"Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe
(Score: 1) by ankh on Thursday June 05 2014, @02:35AM
> Direct link to the comments for the 14-28 proceeding [fcc.gov]
Thanks! It's ... um .... can we still say 'slashdotted' nowadays? Connecting ....
I wonder if it's any slower for people who are customers of the crap merchants; wanta bet they're discouraging comments?
http://www.truthdig.com/images/made/images/cartoonuploads/netneutered_400_323.jpg [truthdig.com]