Ignorant question but how is this affecting nations outside US like Europe Canada Australia?
Basically once the US does it, if it works, then other countries will naturally follow suit.
Ive looked at it as something that is inevitable. The problem is that the powers that be can simply keep putting it up for vote. Eventually people will stop protesting enough and it will pass. Itâs how everything has been changed in society anyways. Wasnât Long ago that certain social things that are considered beyond rebuke now, werenât 20 years ago or so. How did these things happen? The powers that be kept pushing and people got lazy and decided that if it kept coming up then it must not be bad and certainly should be a thing.
Thatâs why net neutrality will get axed eventually. If not this year then the next or 10 years down the line, but it will happen without some form of constitutional guarantee to net neutrality. There is simply too much money to be made if net neutrality goes bye bye.
Only thing we can maybe hope for is some way to circumvent it somehow, based on new technology or someshit.
If it goes through, other countries are going to think itâs a good idea and introduce their own legislature. The USA might be a joke now but the trends we follow are still very important to other nations, especially Europe. Do you think it was a coincidence that while Trump ran his campaign against immigration, on the other side the pond the UK was clamoring to be separated from the EU due to immigration?
Citizen malcontent is EXTREMELY HIGH right now, but taking away internet privileges like this might just be the tipping point before the American people take matters in their own hands.
Probably not, it seems the only way to make Trump and his mega corp cronies back pedal is if they have some personal stake or backlash. Sadly when it comes to the technology industry these asshats really donât have much in way of legit push back from those close to them or even the international community so they will go about with their short sighted thinking until some major incident happens or in case of gun control brush every major incident under the rug and act like their is no correlation with the cruddy laws or practices.
Hope is that this a short term damage and it can be reversed with better minds in the next few elections.
Not a fun picture. Fuck these assholes.
It likely wonât cause direct issues yet, but it sets a shitty precedent and definitely makes it easier to attack similar protections in Europe.
Not quite true. All of this has been going on in Europe for years as well. Trumpâs campaign really didnât introduce much rhetoric that we hadnât heard for a long time already. Him getting elected certainly changed things, mainly by emboldening a bunch of neo-nazi groups, but the campaign itself was nothing we hadnât seen before.
If this happens, Iâll be using a VPN.
And thatâs exactly what will happen. Tons of people will wind up boycotting these companies & will be hitting them where it hurts: Their pockets. Then these companies will start crawling back to everyone of us begging us to take them back.
Maybe theyâll start caring about us then.
You canât do anything, everyone crying about this is literally powerless to effect any change on the matter. If you wanted to stop this you needed to be rich and hired lobbyists a while ago.
Not true. Visibility is a good deterrent for these types of shenanigans. Theyâre basically voting on it with the world watching if people keep raising awareness like this. Iâm sure theyâd rather pass their corrupt bills in the dark.
Well thatâs the problem right now. All of the antagonists in politics these days will blatantly break the law or engage in super-deviant behavior and practices right in the open and the administration just lets them do it and often times protects them from any fallout they get from critics (or, more accurately, the public). With the people in charge right now, the FCC will pass this bill and announce it proudly: they were already up front saying that the opinion of the American citizen will have no bearing on their decision. Theyâre daring people while going, âYeah, and what are you going to do about that?â
This is very scary, not just that we donât have anyone in that room that is on the side of the people, but that having been treated like this over rather serious issues over the course of the past year like the mess with health care, the American citizen might decide that theyâre going to take matters in their own hands. No internet to vent about your frustrations is VERY dangerous when the malcontent among the people is as high as it is already.
We need to revolt.
Full stop.
When are people going to wake up and understand that when the elected officials pass laws that go against the citizen interest of the overwhelming majority NOT stake holders in massive profits-driven corporations, that it is no longer government by the people for the people, and thus the officials and the laws they pass no longer represent the United States, per the Constitution re: the actual law of the land?
Fuck these greedy corporate cocksuckers.
And fuck these greedy corporate cock suckers.
Fuck their illegal laws.
We need to act.
Taking away peopleâs internet privileges might be spark for the powder keg.
Social media is like the only outlet for a large majority of the people thatâll be most affected by this to keep them from doing something insane. Take that away and, wellâŚthis is whatâs going to happen at their nearest courthouse or city hall.
Based on the advertising I see when I watch US streams, theyâre already well on their way with deals such as the sports packages offered by some of the telecoms that let people get unlimited data as long as theyâre watching ESPN or the NFL.
Iâm sure there will be a revolt⌠online at least. When time warner, verizon, and co. get around to fucking up the internet with filtering/throttling/etc., I bet they will be the biggest target for hackers in history.
Why you think they chose this week for the appeal? They are hoping for people to be distracted with Thanksgiving and black Friday so this can go unnoticed.
âŚdid you just call me a cunt?
Seriously, though, this is bad. I can see VPNs becoming mandatory for everyone now.
That wonât work. Theyâll simply wait until the noise dies down and pass it behind closed doors.
They do that & then tons of people will start revolting against congress.
Having free internet is a huge deal to most people & lots of companies than you can imagine.
Theyâll just throttle VPN traffic too or announce VPNs to be illegal for non corporate entities
imo there needs to be a constitutional amendment for this issue because its just going to keep creeping up. the corporations are just going to keep trying different things until it works. they have lots of money