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posted by martyb on Friday February 23 2018, @12:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the cable-companies-rejoice dept.

The Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules will be no more in two months: The agency has taken the final step in removing the regulations from its rule book.

But that may not be the end of the story. Dozens of groups are expected to file lawsuits challenging the repeal, and Democrats in Congress will push to reverse the FCC's action.

On Thursday, the FCC published the final notice of the repeal in the Federal Register, which starts a 60-day clock until the rules are removed. The effective date for the repeal is April 23. The FCC voted to repeal the rules on Dec. 14.

https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-officially-publish-net-neutrality-repeal/#ftag=CADf328eec

Final Notice of Repeal: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/02/22/2018-03464/restoring-internet-freedom


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @01:55AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @01:55AM (#642151)

    I keep asking myself, why are Americans continually voting for people who work against their own personal interests? And I mean both D and R.

    Don't tread on me, motherfucker! I'll vote for who I want for whatever reasons I want! You must be some kind of Marxist cunt. Fuck You!

    Reduce Medicare and Medicaid, end Net Neutrality, reduce taxes for the rich, oppose any type of check (background, sanity, even identity for $Deity’s sake!) when purchasing assault weapons and on, and on.

    Again, fuck you! Those old assholes just need to go ahead and die anyway. Waste of fucking space.

    And those poor fuckers wouldn't be poor if they weren't all lazy, junkies, whores without enough sense to close their legs until they've had five kids by six different (absent -- probably in jail, whre they belong) fathers and useless children wasting my hard-earned (capital gains and carried interest) tax money! As soon as I can bribe my way^W^W^W win a government contract, I'm opening a Zyklon-B [wikipedia.org] factory just for them!

    Net Neutrality my ass! It's just a power grab by the gub'mint to take away my rights in preparation for sending me to a FEMA concentration camp so the whole fucking middle east can come in and impose sharia law!

    Damn right! Why should I pay taxes at all? It's not like I use any public services like sewers, water systems, roads or bridges. I don't benefit from any government money pit. Ever! I made my money without any help from anyone! Well, except my stockbroker and hedge fund manager and they were both well paid for that. So fuck you again!

    You fucking pussy! I have to have muh guns! All those poor people, especially the darkies and sand niggers want to kill me, and the gub'mint has been discriminating against my white ass forever. You remember the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [wikipedia.org]? Did it make my darkie shoeshine boy work any harder? Nope. Just made 'em all more uppity.

    So I'll keep my AR15s, RPGs and .50 cals to make sure those inferior scum don't come near me or my property. Then I'll sue their families to recoup the cost of the lead I put in 'em! They're stealing even after they're dead!

    And what's this $DIETY crap? There's only one god. And he's the god of my beloved holy bible. And he's white! You must be some kind of darkie with a funny name who wants to destroy my 'murica! Fuck you twice!

    I despair. Maybe we are indeed too stupid to survive.

    You certainly are, or you'd be white and rich!

    #MAGA motherfuckers!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @02:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @02:25AM (#642164)

    I could have sworn I heard the braying of a yak in heat. Oh, just a Trumpian spouting off. Nothing to see here fokes!

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 23 2018, @04:16AM (6 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 23 2018, @04:16AM (#642202) Journal

    I don't know why the above is moderated -Troll instead of +Informative.
    Looking from outside, it is entirely consistent with the ethos of (a significant part of) the population which enable those things to happen.

    Yes I know "for any question there is a simple elegant and wrong answer" (to use paraphrasing) - but there haven't been any other answer so far.

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Whoever on Friday February 23 2018, @04:25AM (1 child)

      by Whoever (4524) on Friday February 23 2018, @04:25AM (#642211) Journal

      Poe's law.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 23 2018, @04:46AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 23 2018, @04:46AM (#642225) Journal

        Poe's law implies funny (by parody)
        It would be funny, if it wouldn't be so sad.

        --
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @04:39AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @04:39AM (#642220)

      Looking from outside, it is entirely consistent with the ethos of (a significant part of) the population which enable those things to happen.

      Which is the essence of a good troll. Thanks for the compliment!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @05:01AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @05:01AM (#642228)

        It tipped me off when you wrote "cunt" instead of "cuck."

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @07:59AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 23 2018, @07:59AM (#642256)

        This was awesome. Anyone can have an opinion. Expect to be mocked for it.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @06:43AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @06:43AM (#643799)

          This was awesome. Anyone can have an opinion. Expect to be mocked for it.

          Yup. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone's got one.

          As an aside, if one does mock your opinion and you can't muster the arguments to effectively refute them or at least mock them back effectively, you might want to think more critically about the value of that opinion.