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[ZombiePlatypus]

I guess they're not gonna stop this unless the public puts them in their fucking place.

Vice link here. What the hell's the point of the FCC now?

EDIT:

Here's a bit detailing WHAT WE CAN DO taken from an AMA done on reddit by some pro-net neutrality folks:

First, call your Senators and Representatives and tell them you want the FCC to classify broadband Access as a "Title II telecommunications service." these are the magic words that -- under the Communications Act -- let the FCC tell companies "this is like a telephone call, between the people involved, not something you get involved in -- you are hired to move the information, not mess with it."
Remember "I support Title II." Otherwise, the carriers can mess with the traffic and we're only debating the details of how much they can mess with it.

Here are their [FCC Commissioner's] email addresses. Tom.Wheeler@fcc.gov[1] ; Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov[2] ; Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov[3] ; Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov[4] ; Mike.O'Rielly@fcc.gov[5] The FCC's main telephone line is 1-888-225-5322.

EDIT 2:

I know it's a drop in a bucket, but I tweeted the FCC commissioners and my congressmen. It'll just take a second guys, they should at least take notice if we do it in large numbers. This is what I sent:

Please classify broadband Access as a Title II Telecommunications service #NetNeutrality

FCC commissioners are: @MClyburnFCC @TomWheelerFCC @AjitPaiFCC @JRosenworcel

You can also find your government representative here.

 

[Dai101]

I guess they're not gonna stop this unless the public puts them in their fucking place.

So never?

 

[heliosRAzi]

What do you expect in an oligarchy?

 

[Saganator]

Corporations of America.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Well, on the bright side, at least we can all brag about how we got to experience the internet before greedy assholes ruined it.

 

[speculawyer]

Michael Powell fucked us all over by not calling the internet a common carrier like the telephone network.

To no surprise, he soon left the FCC to accept a cushy high-paying job for the cable companies.

 

[Elfforkusu]

Still some hope here, albiet slim. The telco companies are the only ones in favor of killing net neutrality. The tier 1 internet providers aren't happy, the service providers (google, amazon, netflix) aren't happy, consumers aren't happy.

So I'm saying there's a chance we can put these asshats back in their place.

 

[ZombiePlatypus]

This is why money shouldn't = speech in government. They just buy whatever laws and rules they see fit and bullshit like this happens.

 

[Blackage]

Part of me is infuriated, the other part wants to join the fight so that one day maybe these filthy rich cable companies will also buy me off and I can make six figures a year.

I'm just sayin!

 

[slit]

I'm so tired of all this shit!!!

Let's all revolt.

 

[Gorillaz]

This is the end yall

 

[Hale-XF11]

Just tell me what I need to 'like' and I'll do it.

 

[Agnostic]

Now? The government and corporations have been swapping bodily fluids for a century.

 

[K.Sabot]

We don't have the power or motivation to stop this.

 

[OrlanisWorks]

Something bad/good should happen.

 

[slit]

We don't have the power or motivation to stop this.

We do have the power, it's the motivation part.

 

[nomis]

 

[slit]

If you're Canadian, this is an area where no bragging should be taking place.

 

[Wellscha]

LOL

 

[Zetta]

We do have the power, it's the motivation part.

This very much lol. Its sad really but that's the world we live in.

 

[satori]

We do have the power, it's the motivation part.

Just tell everyone it is the destruction of your porn streams. That will get everyone lock and loaded!

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

You guys are in the shitter when it comes to internet, too.

 

[BoboBrazil]

Some people sending emails to the heads of the FCC isn't going to do anything. Seems like a waste of time.

 

[NinjaFridge]

Just tell me what I need to 'like' and I'll do it.

For every share Facebook will donate $1 to the surgery

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Some people sending emails to the heads of the FCC isn't going to do anything. Seems like a waste of time.

eh it usually is. a few hundred thousand though? that changes things.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

I'm Canadian and LOL.

 

[demon]

eh it usually is. a few hundred thousand though? that changes things.

Isn't it more effective pester actual elected officials?

 

[Vicetrailia]

There is no stopping the decline of America, it's the bubble that has to pop. That's how we roll.

 

[Eighty Deuce]

Isn't it more effective pester actual elected officials?

By literally throwing bags of shit at them.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

Isn't it more effective pester actual elected officials?

yeah, see the syria thing and SOPA.

Both of those things would be law were it not for those kind of movements. It usually is useless but at certain times its effective when 1000s are doing it at the same time.

you have to make them scared it matters.

 

[nomis]

If you're Canadian, this is an area where no bragging should be taking place.

You guys are in the shitter when it comes to internet, too.

Canadians get gouged for middling-to-shit speed internet by the big companies, but at least there are small companies to somewhat keep them in check, and a CRTC that somewhat cracks down on different types of throttling.

 

[bonercop]

Buncha fuckin' rent-seekers. This is the kind of thing that makes me hope mesh networks actually take off and puts these assholes out of business.

 

[ZombiePlatypus]

I know it's a drop in a bucket, but I tweeted the FCC commissioners and my congressmen. It'll just take a second guys, they should at least take notice if we do it in large numbers. This is what I sent:

Please classify broadband Access as a Title II Telecommunications service #NetNeutrality

FCC commissioners are: @MClyburnFCC @TomWheelerFCC @AjitPaiFCC @JRosenworcel

You can also find your government representative here.

 

[TheRealTalker]

Bell and Rogers aside

are US brothers are fucked

 

[slit]

Canadians get gouged for middling-to-shit speed internet by the big companies, but at least there are small companies to somewhat keep them in check, and a CRTC that somewhat cracks down on different types of throttling.

Great except the CRTC has becomes Bell's bitch therefore that glass house you live in is fragile so you need to put down the stone.

 

[DiscoJer]

It's called regulatory capture. It happens to a lot of things. There's basically a revolving door between industry and government.

For instance, right now in St. Louis there is a huge fight between the cab companies, who control the cab licensing thing in the city, and Lyft, which is trying to break into the market.

 

[malyce]

"First, call your Senators and Representatives"

Lol, you people still don't get it do you?

 

[Deku Tree]

I hope I never have to say "remember when the internet was good?"

 

[ZombiePlatypus]

"First, call your Senators and Representatives"

Lol, you people still don't get it do you?

I know it's a rigged game, but if we make noise in numbers big enough, they'll take notice.

 

[big_z]

Canadians get gouged for middling-to-shit speed internet by the big companies, but at least there are small companies to somewhat keep them in check, and a CRTC that somewhat cracks down on different types of throttling.

Those small Internet providers are only available to a tiny fraction of the population. The crtc is run by former heads of the telecoms in canada and are useless.

Canada has been fucked for a while now. Now the US is joining us.

 

[jstripes]

I hope I never have to say "remember when the internet was good?"

It's bound to happen.

We're in the "Wild West" phase right now.

 

[benjipwns]

Why would the government want to limit the ability for carriers to mess with communications? How else are they going to shift part of the blame onto the companies when they tell them to do it?

 

[leadbelly]

This is like key Mafia figures appointed to senior positions in law enforcement. lol

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

Do you guys ever stop to think how they gained so much power in the last few years?

 

[styl3s]

I would get mad at canada right now but i am too busy enjoying quadtribablutrable the speeds and unlimited bandwidth right now.

Here in MURICA.

 

[flyinpiranha]

I know it's a rigged game, but if we make noise in numbers big enough, they'll take notice.

Always do my part. But it seems pretty futile. The problem is they hold all of the cards. Look how pathetic they made the OWS look.

 

[Guerilla]

Do you guys ever stop to think how they gained so much power in the last few years?

It's Obama, the man is a weasel.

 

[kehs]

I hope everyone that has bitched so far has been proactive, right?

 

[Bulbo Urethral Baggins]

It's Obama, the man is a weasel.

Bingo.

 

[inm8num2]

I say let them kill it. Maybe people will start giving a damn about what really happens in Washington, and how bad the corruption is regardless of whether a person is a D or an R.