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Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the brace-for-impact dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1937

Net neutrality advocates are planning two days of protest in Washington DC this month as they fight off plans to defang regulations meant to protect an open internet.

A coalition of activists, consumer groups and writers are calling on supporters to attend the next meeting of the Federal Communications Commission on 26 September in DC. The next day, the protest will move to Capitol Hill, where people will meet legislators to express their concerns about an FCC proposal to rewrite the rules governing the internet.

The FCC has received 22 million comments on "Restoring Internet Freedom", the regulator's proposal to dismantle net neutrality rules put in place in 2015. Opponents argue the rule changes, proposed by the FCC's Republican chairman Ajit Pai, will pave the way for a tiered internet where internet service providers (ISPs) will be free to pick and choose winners online by giving higher speeds to those they favor, or those willing or able to pay more.

The regulator has yet to process the comments, and is reviewing its proposals before a vote expected later this year.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/15/washington-dc-net-neutrality-protests-restoring-internet-freedom

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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:47PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:47PM (#570624)

    There was long a clear need for hooking up geographically disparate computers.

    Just because government threw a pittance at one particular low-level project means shit. It's a total misrepresentation of the history of the Internet.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:05PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:05PM (#570632)

    There was long a clear need for hooking up geographically disparate computers.

    Yet the "free market" couldn't figure out how to do it. It took government intervention to get it done. Funny how that works, isn't it?

    Free market: 0. Government: 1.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:10PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:10PM (#570634)

      Evolution by variation (supplier competition) and selection (consumer choice).

      You're betraying your innate misunderstanding of this process; why are you so partial to the ridiculous theory of Intelligent Design?

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:29PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @03:29PM (#570641)

        Intelligent Design

        Free market moron uses Red Herring! It's not very effective.

        Anyway, "evolution" chose ARPAnet, the government system, over your free market systems such as Prodigy, CompuServe, Delphi, etc. that were mentioned earlier.

        How long are you going to keep fighting a lost battle? Yes, it's a lost battle for you as evidenced by the tactics you just employed.

        Or are you just a troll and I swallowed the bait hook, line, and sinker?

        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:25PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:25PM (#570682)

          So - you're a swallower? I've a few things I'd like to discuss with you in private . . .

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 20 2017, @04:36PM (#570690)

    Thank you this is an excellent post we will make sure you are well compensated for your shilling Anonymous Coward.