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Chula Vista 02-27-2015 10:40 AM

FCC Votes for Net Neutrality
 
Didn't notice any threads on this. This is HUGE IMO. Anytime the mega-corporations lose it's always good for us commoners.

FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules For 'Open Internet' : The Two-Way : NPR

Paul Smeenus 02-27-2015 10:59 AM


Chula Vista 02-27-2015 11:36 AM

Brilliant stuff. He HAS to replace Jon Stewart.

Frownland 02-27-2015 12:19 PM

I'm happy with this outcome. Wrote my congressman and shit.

The Batlord 02-27-2015 12:40 PM

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.

Chula Vista 02-27-2015 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1557932)
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.

I think you are overreacting. This was much more about the commerce aspect of things.

There has to be "some" level of control over the content available but we can't let big money decide what's going to free, what's going to cost a nickel, and what's going to cost a CC number.

The opposite of this ruling would have been devastating to the majority IMO.

Urban Hat€monger ? 02-27-2015 12:52 PM

While I can see this is a good thing I still don't like it that with pretty much because of all the big companies being based in the U.S. basically one country can hold the world ransom to get to decide how the internet is run.

FRED HALE SR. 02-27-2015 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1557937)
While I can see this is a good thing I still don't like it that with pretty much because of all the big companies being based in the U.S. basically one country can hold the world ransom to get to decide how the internet is run.

Thats a good point. Should one country be able to attain the rights to do that. It would be a horrible road to go down. That being said the internet is always gonna be under government scrutiny its just non-avoidable.

The Batlord 02-27-2015 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1557934)
I think you are overreacting. This was much more about the commerce aspect of things.

There has to be "some" level of control over the content available but we can't let big money decide what's going to free, what's going to cost a nickel, and what's going to cost a CC number.

The opposite of this ruling would have been devastating to the majority IMO.

I agree that I prefer this outcome over the alternative, but in the long run government control can be insidious and not to be underestimated. The Law of Unintended Consequences is no joke. Just look at the Middle East.

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1557937)
While I can see this is a good thing I still don't like it that with pretty much because of all the big companies being based in the U.S. basically one country can hold the world ransom to get to decide how the internet is run.

*shrug*

It is what it is. America's influence on the rest of the world is just a reality. You're perfectly entitled and correct to complain about it, but in the end it's just a fact of life. We can only hope that in the future that developing spheres of influence throughout the world, like the European Union and whatever becomes of China and Japan's fight over control of Asia manage to create power blocs that can neutralize America's stranglehold to some extent.

RoxyRollah 02-27-2015 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1557937)
While I can see this is a good thing I still don't like it that with pretty much because of all the big companies being based in the U.S. basically one country can hold the world ransom to get to decide how the internet is run.

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


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