It pains me to write on this subject as often as I have to. Some of you may have been wondering where I’ve been in light of the latest news that President Trump’s FCC has set a date for the attempted repeal of net neutrality. I drafted many articles on this development for our readers, but none seemed to carry the necessary weight given the gravity of the situation. I guess I’ll just have to be blunt and hope that my message approaches the appropriate magnitude of what is happening.
If this goes though, it will suck. A lot.
Despite massive, vocal opposition from the public and private sector, Ajit Pai and the FCC have announced their plan to kill net neutrality and have finally chosen their time. Come December, we may see the end of net neutrality in the United States.
You would think that a decision that will be as disruptive as this one would have been reached incredibly scrupulously. That has not been the case in the slightest. The entire pro-repeal side of this debate has been surrounded by a plethora of corruption. Countless pro-repeal comments on the FCC’s website have likely been faked. The co-opting of both living and dead American identities is nothing short of a felony, and these faked comments are being used to quell the very obvious public opposition to repealing net neutrality. In addition to these faked comments, the real voices of actual citizens and consumers opposing this have gone silenced. The Washington Post’s motto on its site is “Democracy dies in darkness.” Worryingly, we may be in for darker times than ever before.
Please understand, I realize that it may appear I am shouting eschatological cries from my keyboard, but net neutrality is one of the things that allows you to read my words and the words of all of us here at the Merkle. Independant journalism such as ours is built on the fact that all data on the internet is treated the same by ISPs. The moment that stipulation is taken away, prepare for having to pay even more than you already pay your ISP to access certain content. Companies will have to pay ISPs to have their content accessible at speeds that make sense. The only people who win here are the elite and the big telecommunications companies. Literally everyone else loses.
That’s because this is a direct assault on our freedom of speech and our digital rights. When companies – possibly colluding with agencies – can all but shut down access to certain websites, they can exert control over what is seen. Content consumption will become prescribed, not elected.
There is still time
Fighting this will be exhausting. It will happen between two holidays Americans love, and in a season where everyone is generally busier. But we must continue to call our representatives and let them know how much we hate this. What is wild to me is that we have to tell our representatives that we don’t want our rights taken away.
We have to keep calling because, well, it is kind of working. The first Republican lawmaker has publicly come out against the repeal of the Obama-era regulations. However, we will need to turn more to make this happen.
In the end, these are your rights. We cryptocurrency users love our rights. Let’s remind our lawmakers that the internet is and was always meant to be open and fair. Keep your voice equal, and keep your content yours. Don’t pay more than you have to in order to read the articles you love or watch the videos you enjoy. This affects all of us.
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Folks, ” NET NEUTRALITY ” is, the world wide web. It IS what defines and asserts the value of the World Wide Web. It allows the lowly and the alone to shout next to the wealthy and wealthier in our world…and the beacon of democracy…the banner of home-bravery and valor, the USA, is LITERALLY turning its back on the child of its own loin – THE INTERNET. I saw The Web when it was still the ArpaNet…HOLY COW! To see this day approaching, the thought of it…makes me wonder if I have lived too long!?!
Trump, is tearing this down ALL because a Black Man, a REAL man, named Barack Hussein Obama championed it! Well, trump, when there is no Net Neutrality you can name what comes next after your best friends…call the web, the ‘ ONE PERCENT SOLUTION ‘.
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Trump really is a disgusting piece of trash. What a worthless turd of a man. His ego, his desire to win and be right is more important to him than our safety (think about his childish bickering with Kim Jong Un) or our freedom (as you pointed out.) What a racist lump of rancid afterbirth he is! He does this in one eye-watering breath and in the other tries to get NFL players fired for their attempt to stand up for civil liberties. These are his priorities, ladies and gentlemen. All of these things, and getting on the cover of Time. That’s what this festering pile of goat-leavings cares the most about.
When will Trump supporters realize that he is an elitist who has betrayed the middle class, and only wants to support fellow billionaires. The Republican tax plan is largely intended to cut taxes for people like Trump while giving only temporary relief for the middle class. Trump wants to let big corporations chip away at our national parks, which none of the public wants. As you say, nobody wants to surrender the public Internet to toll fees from the Big Telecoms either. We already pay them in our monthly bills, and yet they demand more $$$. Europeans pay less for Internet access than Americans. They also pay less for health care, but Trump and the Republicans want us to pay even more for health care. The billionaire class won’t stop until it has strangled the life out ot the middle class and we are all poor. Then they can still sell us booze, TV sets, food, and a little clothing. Trump is Satan. What’s the difference?
I hate some opinions on the internet with a vengeance. But I fight for their right to say what I don’t like to hear and I would stand and fight together with every last one of the people I disagree with against the tyranny we all face.
Ajit Pai is the most hated person in all of the connected world right now.
Trump lives in some sort of backwards world where he finds people that really hate a certain department and makes them head of that department.
I find it hard to believe that America would actually murder it’s internet ?!!?
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