Real important: Net Neutrality in Danger!

General Discussion
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I don’t think that anyone on here has made a thread about this yet, so I’m gonna make it because it’s recent.

Everyone should call Congress, etc. about it. We have Net Neutrality in danger once again. The FCC is planning on repealing it. Here is what it means:

A person named Markiplier has made a video about it:

Here are the links that he had added below:

Reddit threads with TONS of info: https://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis/comments/7ekx19/the_fcc_is_about_to_kill_net_neutrality_were/
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/7ek4q6/join_the_battle_for_net_neutrality_net_neutrality/

Contact your Representatives: https://resistbot.io/

Another Helpful Tool: https://democracy.io/

Find your Representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Find your Senator: https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state

Contact the FCC: https://www.fcc.gov/about/contact

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It’s only a matter of time. Unfortunately

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Don’t we have two political threads?

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Yea…I did my part. This Reddit post said it best:

Me (after 50 minutes of juggling automated messaging and wait times): Yeah, so apparently I can’t access Facebook, Netflix or NYTimes? All I can read is the freaking NBC page.

Rep: Yes, ma’am. We’re sorry to hear you are having difficulty and are happy to help you with this matter. Please wait while I access your account.

… Rep: Ma’am, it looks like you only have the basic Internet Services package.

Me: Yeah, same one as last year.

Rep: Ma’am, in 2018, we are pleased to tell you we have actually improved our packages to better fit our customer’s needs. Your Basic Services Package covers your local news station and Comcast-approved affiliated websites only. If you wish to access more websites, you will need to upgrade your package to the Social Media, Streaming, or News Packages. If you want all three categories, you will need to upgrade to a VIP package. If you want access to more than 5 categories you will need to upgrade to the All Access Package.

Me: Uh, what?? Why? What do those cost? I want the service I had last year, I didn’t agree to any changes!

Rep: I understand ma’am. Your current Basic Services Package is the same price as last year at $79.99/month, each additional package is $9.99/month for unlimited access to the approved category. VIP Packages are an additional $49.99/month and each All Access Package is an additional $129.99/month.

Me: Are you @$*#&$ kidding me? If I want the same service as last year, I have to pay $210/month?!

Rep: Yes, ma’am. And its unlimited access, so it really pays for itself the more time you spend on it.

Me: Uh, no…Why is there a change? I refuse to pay more for the same service. Isn’t it illegal to filter access to websites?

Rep: Ma’am, I’m pleased to tell you that in December 2017, Ajit Pai and the FCC decided to revoke Net Neutrality rules, allowing us at Comcast to better serve you with these customized packages. If you didn’t want this, you should have called your local government representative @ https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ or submitted complaints to the FCC @ https://www.fcc.gov/about/contact. Have a nice day! This is a future situation I’m afraid could happen if Net Neutrality rules are revoked this December.

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This belongs in the politics thread where you can Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee to your heart’s content.

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Some of you willfully ignorant dudes are exactly the reason why this shit keeps popping back up.

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“Rep: Ma’am, in 2018, we are pleased to tell you we have actually improved our packages to better fit our customer’s needs.”

LMAOOO

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The fact that it keeps coming up year after year, and how all of the ISPs pushing for it have a stranglehold across the country even in larger cities, means that even if it gets shot down this time, they’re just going to vote on it again discretely without announcing the vote is being pushed through and Net Neutrality dies without us realizing it was being put on the executioner’s block.

You sure as hell can’t protest it for long unless you’re lucky enough to live in an area with Google internet, because it’s basically the ISP Overlords or nothing. You can’t even surf on your phone because a lot of these ISPs have that angle covered too. You can raise a stink online but it’ll fall on deaf ears because these ISPs know that you’ll take it a like it unless you want to be completely disconnected from the world until you move to another area that has Google internet.

It’s dark times. Thanks Red States!

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Wrote basically an essay on this, lost all of it before I posted it because I hadn’t made an account yet. Summary is “good luck finding a fighting game community without the free internet. Even if you buy an expensive AF internet package that covers all the social shit, most people will be stuck to arcades for playing fighting games with other people, and you won’t be able to find them.” Arcade culture may come back as an effect of this proposition, but I honestly think that this isn’t good, no matter how nostalgic it may sound.

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Not to mention that it’ll also pretty much force 3rd party publishers to go back to the days of the NES through the PS2/Gamecube/Original Xbox (plus Wii) in which most games were fully complete on game cartridges, gamecards & on discs. It will seriously damper both DLC & Microtransactions, too.

Basically, without NN, gaming is going to be heading back to the days of the 70’s through the mid-2000’s.

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SRK Forum Post of 2017!!

Comedic gold but eerie spot the fuck on, once this shit happens!!

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https://twitter.com/bessbell/status/933022293164548096?s=17

Best argument in favor of Net Neutrality so far.

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Land of the free??

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Obviously, if the bill has already made it to grand finals.

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More like Land of the Fee.

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America is looking pretty free right now. And not in that freedom kind of way. Money determining the laws that get made have reached critical mass levels of stupid.

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I made that joke two posts up.

You’ve been out of the Mafia loop too long, good sir.

Mafia the game… not the motherfuckers currently posing as government in the U.S.

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The FCC has already made it clear that everyone protesting it will be ignored. The best we can hope for is that when it goes down and business tanks, they backpedal quickly.

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It kinda makes me wonder what CAN we do in this instance. If the public outcry becomes big enough, will the FCC even care?

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You cunts better call your representatives and tell them they’re cunts if they don’t vote against this cunt-ass repeal.