LucianDreamer wrote:
Backlash wrote:
So is Net Neutrality dead for real this time?
I must say I'm disappointed, but not surprised.
Not yet, but they're getting close to winning their reversal despite 20+ million filings. This is because of Pai now saying it's the quality, not quantity, and the majority of these filings in their docket doesn't seem to change their mind.
I'm still crossing my fingers, because once it gets passed into law and still don't know exactly when, this place and everywhere else we use to go to that we hold dear won't be around forever.
Bonus: I was browsing on 4chan around that time when the post occurred.
Things are gettin' real bad, real fast. It doesn't help that corporations pay big money for tremendously retarded articles decrying Net Neutrality.
What really gets me though is that despite the overwhelming majority of consumers (including most Libertarians, for Pete's sake!) being strongly in favor of Net Neutrality, our representatives continue acting purely in the service of private gain. This is, bluntly put, a spectacular failure of American democracy, and is symptomatic of larger issues with our political institutions themselves.
This is entirely expected, of course. Accumulation of material wealth is the greatest virtue under Capitalism, and it's in the rational best interests of ISPs to divvy up the web as they see fit. If anyone, Ajit Pai included, tells you otherwise, show him this image. And if that doesn't work, I'd recommend acquainting his head with the pavement.
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