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Buried in the holiday season the FCC is voting on repealing Net Neutrality on the 14th of December.
If you are in America. Speak up for your right not to pay for free speech. Say something so that small businesses won’t have to pay to have a chance online and millions will lose their jobs. Say something for the free informations at your fingertips. Speak up for your weird hobbies and those who have nowhere else to turn but online.
They will not take it all away in one swell swoop. They will "just" have the right to.
And so they will slowly make you pay for more and more.
You, the sites, your rights, everyone will pay.
► What you can do ◀
Verizon Store Protests on December 7
At Verizon stores USA-wide on December 7, one week before the vote, activists will meet at 5 p.m. local time to put pressure on Congress and demand a change. Pai used to work on Verizon’s legal team, so the choice of store is intended to “[shine] light on the corruption” and expose Pai’s conflict of interest. Events are planned across the country, including Indianapolis, New York, and San Francisco, but other cities are welcome to organize their own and add it to the list. The site says the protest “will be quick, fun, and 100% legal.”
Washington, D.C. Protest on December 13
On December 13, the day before the vote, a team of organizers called “Defend Net Neutrality” have planned a protest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a venue as-yet undecided.
Phone Call Drive Happening Now
Citizens can call their representativeby using Battle For the Net’s simple interface. Entering your phone number provides a script of what to say and connects you with your local politician. Over 250,000 calls have already been made.
Petition
A petition entitled “Replace Ajit Pai on FCC, Restore Net Neutrality, Make Last-mile Networking a Public Utility, and Stop Corporate Abuse” has been postedon the official White House website. At time of writing, the petition has 6,474 signatures, with 93,526 required to get a response from the government.
Another petition, entitled “Do Not Repeal Net Neutrality,” has been posted and already acculumulated a staggering 143,229 signatures.
https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/07/.....nternet-works/
You can sign these petitions and spread the word of this happening
https://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-fcc-to-preserve?source=s.tw&r_by=18645325
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
https://cms.fightforthefuture.org/tellfcc/
https://www.change.org/p/save-net-neutrality-netneutrality?recruiter=9099631&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition&sharerUserId=9099631
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Buried in the holiday season the FCC is voting on repealing Net Neutrality on the 14th of December.
If you are in America. Speak up for your right not to pay for free speech. Say something so that small businesses won’t have to pay to have a chance online and millions will lose their jobs. Say something for the free informations at your fingertips. Speak up for your weird hobbies and those who have nowhere else to turn but online.
They will not take it all away in one swell swoop. They will "just" have the right to.
And so they will slowly make you pay for more and more.
You, the sites, your rights, everyone will pay.
► What you can do ◀
Verizon Store Protests on December 7
At Verizon stores USA-wide on December 7, one week before the vote, activists will meet at 5 p.m. local time to put pressure on Congress and demand a change. Pai used to work on Verizon’s legal team, so the choice of store is intended to “[shine] light on the corruption” and expose Pai’s conflict of interest. Events are planned across the country, including Indianapolis, New York, and San Francisco, but other cities are welcome to organize their own and add it to the list. The site says the protest “will be quick, fun, and 100% legal.”
Washington, D.C. Protest on December 13
On December 13, the day before the vote, a team of organizers called “Defend Net Neutrality” have planned a protest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a venue as-yet undecided.
Phone Call Drive Happening Now
Citizens can call their representativeby using Battle For the Net’s simple interface. Entering your phone number provides a script of what to say and connects you with your local politician. Over 250,000 calls have already been made.
Petition
A petition entitled “Replace Ajit Pai on FCC, Restore Net Neutrality, Make Last-mile Networking a Public Utility, and Stop Corporate Abuse” has been postedon the official White House website. At time of writing, the petition has 6,474 signatures, with 93,526 required to get a response from the government.
Another petition, entitled “Do Not Repeal Net Neutrality,” has been posted and already acculumulated a staggering 143,229 signatures.
https://venturebeat.com/2017/12/07/.....nternet-works/
You can sign these petitions and spread the word of this happening
https://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-fcc-to-preserve?source=s.tw&r_by=18645325
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
https://cms.fightforthefuture.org/tellfcc/
https://www.change.org/p/save-net-neutrality-netneutrality?recruiter=9099631&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition&sharerUserId=9099631
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They will block anything that isn't on their approved site list to prevent people from getting free stuff outside of paying through their tiers.
You'll be able to access big media company porn, but sites like FA will never be approved because "the children". Even if domestic sites like FA are accessible on the "porn tier"... if you like foreign sites like Pixiv? Sorry, this is outside your geographical region. Blocked. Too bad you don't live in Japan.
Trust me, this is coming and its going to suck hard.
You'll be able to access big media company porn, but sites like FA will never be approved because "the children". Even if domestic sites like FA are accessible on the "porn tier"... if you like foreign sites like Pixiv? Sorry, this is outside your geographical region. Blocked. Too bad you don't live in Japan.
Trust me, this is coming and its going to suck hard.
Cloudflare could be put out of business if ISPs run their own walled garden clouds. Another possibility is they will charge Cloudflare to let their traffic go through at a decent speed or at all. This will raise cloudflare prices and squeeze out small users. Most of the general public could care less about crunchyroll or curse, or even OkCupid. They will pay extra for the usual boring shit. Anything fringe will be either put out of business or be forced to start charging customers fees or higher prices if they are already charge any kind of fees like Crunchyroll. The free ad-supported tiers will be dead. They won't produce enough revenue to pay for all this. So you will be forced to pay or not use these services, assuming they survive at all.
That is what certain powers that be want to go back to. They want to go to walled gardens and also to charge on top of all other content. Basically no matter where your site is... cloudflare, amazon or azure, you will still have to pay ISP's extra just to be seen. For those cloud providers, they will charge extra to the provider itself and they will have to pass the cost on to you. It will become very expensive to run a small server again, like in the 1990's. Proxy/VPN can already be defeated. China has shown that. Only instead of government level great firewalls, you'll have corporate ones at your ISP. Net neutrality prevented that. Soon no more.
A firewall made by the ISPs is actually less enforceable than one done by the government because they can't force the other companies to play along. If all the traffic to the shared hosting provider is encrypted, then how will the ISP know which of the many services on that provider you're accessing?
Again they can just block access to any IP they haven't vetted. They will start with peer to peer type stuff to kill off bittorent and such. Remember who owns the ISP's now. Same companies who make music and movies. Again I think this will be slow degradation into an AOL style walled garden for each ISP. Granted its all pure speculation at this point, but these companies aren't asking for this for nothing.
I wish, but sadly I think enough of the general public will just suck it up that there won't be enough outcry to undo it. The internet we loved will be dead in 2018. It had a good run. Hopefully a new disruptive tech comes along to give us a new option, but it could take a while :/
One thing I want to add that few people have talked about but that I raised in my calls (especially to my one democrat senator) was that this will hurt education for the poor and even middle class. A lot of research can be done online and a lot can be leaned just by watching the vast amount of educational stuff on youtube. The poor won't be able to afford the video tiers and so you will end up hurting education (and thus "The Children" with this dick move.
The main problem steams from the fact that big corporations don't see any of the magical things that we see. They don't care ether. When they look at this thing called "The Internet", they see ether an EBay, Email, Facebook, or movie watching Mechine. They don't see the smaller things that all of us see and understand.
Although, they mostly have no time to explore the web, for a number of reasons. They have their own lives and businesses that take up all of their mindsets and just see the internet as a tool. Even the "normal" day to day people are clueless to how the internet works. Not realizing how advanced the internet has gotten. As the same with video games, the first impression people had to the internet still linger. Making people think this isn't a bigger issue than it is.
Although, they mostly have no time to explore the web, for a number of reasons. They have their own lives and businesses that take up all of their mindsets and just see the internet as a tool. Even the "normal" day to day people are clueless to how the internet works. Not realizing how advanced the internet has gotten. As the same with video games, the first impression people had to the internet still linger. Making people think this isn't a bigger issue than it is.
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