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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah (Post 1557951)

Well,its a dirty job fit for the Us.Don't hate because you are geographically challenged.

If it wasn't for an Englishman you wouldn't even be here :p:

http://tw.rpi.edu/launch/img/lee.jpg

We whipped yer ass twice red coat,you want some more?

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1557952)

If it wasn't for an Englishman you wouldn't even be here :p:

http://tw.rpi.edu/launch/img/lee.jpg

*cough*WWII*cough*

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1557952)

If it wasn't for an Englishman you wouldn't even be here :p:

http://tw.rpi.edu/launch/img/lee.jpg

I'd never let anybody with that tie/shirt combo help me with anything.

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Originally Posted by RoxyRollah (Post 1557953)

We whipped yer ass twice red coat,you want some more?

I think you mean once. We whipped yours the second time.

im more worried about losing access to unlimited free ****

that's the #1 most pressing political issue on my personal agenda

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1557932)

Not that I have any desire for corporations to have free reign to control the internet (de facto Google tyranny anyone?), but I also wonder if this isn't the first step (or second or third or whatever) toward government slowly exerting its own control over the net. I'm a great believer in the internet as a wild west kind of place, a repository of all the world's information where it can be spread freely to all, even if that means that child predators and scam artists have an easier time of it -- just an unfortunate but necessary trade off IMO.

But I just can't see the government remaining neutral over internet freedom in the long run. Every time there's a hacking incident, or a pretty little white girl gets molested by a guy she met on the internet, I imagine there's an invisible noose that's going to get tighter and tighter. I don't necessarily see it as gov clandestinely trying to shut down free expression on the internet, but if you allow them any kind of power over it, eventually they're going to pass some kind of restriction that's never going to be lifted, and so on and so on until I can't even watch a thirty second clip from a movie on Youtube without getting sued.

The eventual "wrangling" of the internet is probably inevitable. It happens with every medium. This vote was simply one answer to the long question of where control will end up, and I don't buy for a second that it's a final answer either. Look a few decades into the future, and I suspect you'll see a much more constrained internet than the one that exists now, regardless of whoever ends up as its "steward". Maybe by then a new frontier will be in the works. Hopefully.

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth (Post 1558039)

im more worried about losing access to unlimited free ****

that's the #1 most pressing political issue on my personal agenda

This. A repository of pretty much everything on Earth that can be digitized? I find that far more important than copyright laws.

I've been following this for months ever since I became part of this email list. Last time I checked, that email list has upwards of 1.2 million emails on it BTW.
It's so ****ing ridiculous how blatant the government corruption is in this whole debacle, particularly in Congress. Comcast has pushed harder for anti-net neutrality than Obama pushed for the ACA. Lobbying, funneling millions of dollars in campaign contributions to Congressmen...Comcast, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable did pretty much everything in their power to alter the outcome, and political idiots from both parties like Ted Cruz, and the ****ing media sure didn't help at all (Fox News calling net Neutrality Obamacare for the internet?? Like...WUT), and so many other idiot maneuvers stood in the way, but we, the people, still won.

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victory. At least, for the moment.