A dark time is coming, net neutrality has been mortally wounded. As many of you are well aware the internet is the last and greatest bastion of free speech and now voices can be snuffed out by corporate will. I beg of everyone who reads this message do whatever you can, if you are a United States citizen then write, write to congressmen, write to house representatives, tell them of the threat to freedom of speech, to freedom of information, and most of all write to President Obama, remind him of his campaign promise to protect net neutrality. Tell him how he has let down the American people by allowing this to happen. Those of you not within the U.S. or who feel they can do more please act at your discretion. Do whatever you can to protect that which we all hold precious.
Information is free
we do not forgive
we do not forget
expect us
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Anonymous2010-12-23 23:05
Well put, but I'd like to contend there is no problem for which a solution is required. There is no reason to support net neutrality; the Internet is already free enough to host all but outright illegal material, free enough to complain about legitimate material that you don't want to see, and yet still "owned" just enough that it can be utilized within a financial market without compromising either of the first two points of freedom.
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Anonymous2010-12-23 23:33
I respectfully counter, without net neutrallity an internet service provider can cut bandwidth to any site they choose to the point where it is effectivly shut down, this opens the door for bribes. Corperations, polititions, any entity with enough money could pay off service providers to essentially shut down any site that allows people to speak in the entities opposition or make available information reveiling dishonest or illegal activities. The bribe itself would probably be illegal but it is an easy enough thing to hide and they (the service provider) would not need to provide a reason for their actions against such websites.
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Anonymous2010-12-24 0:00
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You suggest that the government is free of bribes; most recently, the administration has adopted the moniker of "Obamacare" to support their health care overhaul and somehow have gotten what is formerly a word that is derisive of the overhaul promoting their website at the top of Google. Bribery? coincidence? just suspicious, and that's more than enough. Moreover, the reliance on countable private-owned ISPs require that functionality and profit are related. It permits me to, in all but drastic situations that is in a different domain of Internet access, one that net neutrality is not going to address, change my provider if I am unhappy with their service. How do I change my ISP from the panel assigned by the US government if I am unhappy with how they are providing the service?
To go another step, you have listed a <i>hypothetical</i> problem as the core of your argument. (And the Wikileaks debacle proved that it is much easier to just refuse to do further business with said entity, which is, itself, a freedom that is within the other business's power.) I revisit the popular phrase "a solution searching for a problem."
Government has long been in the business of selling hideously expensive non-solutions to non-problems.
I do not know what problem this is intended to solve, but I believe the government solution will only make things worse. I have faith in the government, you see.
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Anonymous2010-12-30 14:33
We must destroy this class-based distincrion. We must recreate net neutrality. We must save the internet from class warfare
Not yet. When net neutrality dies (which it has not yet, the FCC is sponsoring resolutions, through toothless, to save it), economic class-based distinctions will have their rise on the internet, reflecting the division of capital within the real world on the internet.
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Anonymous2011-01-03 16:52
We're not criminals for initiating a DDoS. We have the constitutional right to deny them service peacefully.
tl;dr we no crimeys for DDOS we just trollin'
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Anonymous2011-01-04 19:38
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No, I don't think a DoS is covered under freedom of assembly or speech.