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I can't believe I haven't seen this on the forum yet but we have to spread this.
Together, we flooded the FCC with millions of comments demanding net neutrality, and won the strongest protections for online free speech ever. Now, Comcast is furious. They want to destroy our victory with their massive power in a corrupt Congress. You won net neutrality.
Now, help defend it.


Also here's a funny video explaining what is happening:

Firecycle

That's like saying that the government forcing airlines to make all seats first class would be better for everybody. It may seem nice, but now all airlines are more expensive because they can't fit as many people on the plane, which creates a higher demand.

Now there's two ways the airlines can go: They can make all airline tickets more expensive, making it so some people who wanted to use the airline can't, or they can decrease the quality of first class, so now nobody's happy flying.

The use of force, even by the government, always yields unintended consequences.

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Neptune_SageIm from Serbia so I dont think this will affect me.


It's like saying that book-burning won't affect people. It's an attempt to monopolize information, something that nobody should be allowed to do. The internet is essentially a basic service, it should be treated as such.

An email from Battle for the Net

Bits and pieces of every bad Internet policy we’ve ever defeated are being rolled into one massive, secret deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- and last week, legislators introduced a bill to Fast Track its negotiations.

Help us flood Congress with calls and emails this Thursday demanding they oppose the TPP.

Dear Fight for the Future member,

If you’re not quite sure yet why the Trans-Pacific Partnership is so bad, read on below.

If you already understand that it’s one of the gravest threats to the Internet we’ve faced, click here, join the Internet Vote, and help us make sure Congress gets flooded with calls and emails on Thursday demanding they oppose the TPP.

I want to apologize in advance for how long the rest of this email is -- it’s just that when it comes to the TPP, there’s no shortage of reasons we need to stop it.

The biggest problem with the Trans-Pacific Partnership is that there’s absolutely no public oversight. The only way we know what’s in the TPP right now is from leaks of specific chapters -- and if Fast Track passes, not only won’t we get more details about the TPP, Congress will have to give a single thumbs up or down to the entire thing.

That means we won’t be able to push for specific items to be removed from the deal -- we’ll be stuck with the whole thing, so as of right now the Trans-Pacific Partnership will do all of the following:

Force sites to remove allegedly infringing content from the web without a court order - scarily similar to SOPA.

Create harsh criminal penalties for journalists and whistleblowers. Any disclosure of information with "commercial value" would be criminalized -- and there would be absolutely no public interest of free speech exemption.

Punish Internet users who share copyrighted material, even without any personal gain. Here's the proposed punishment from the leaked text: "sentences of imprisonment as well as monetary fines sufficiently high to provide a deterrent to future acts of infringement." Again, that's potential prison time for sharing something without any personal gain.

Limit Fair Use to make copyright even more restrictive on creative innovation. Last week, WikiLeaks revealed a series of emails surrounding the TPP where the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) explicitly argued against including any fair use provisions. And it looks pretty clear that if the TPP passes, they'll have their way. That means remixes, sampling, and quoting of copyrighted material could become illegal outside the US.

Allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government if they think that our laws infringe on their profits. This is, quite simply, the most devastating part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It opens the door to undermining every good law we've ever passed to protect the Internet -- the only thing corporations have to do is prove they could make more money if those laws didn't exist.

In short, the TPP isn’t just bad — it’s zombie bad. It has parts of every misguided Internet policy we’ve killed over the last decade trying to become law by completely bypassing every part of our democratic process.

That’s why we’re calling Thursday the Internet Vote -- because putting a secret deal like the Trans-Pacific Partnership on a Fast Track is absurdly undemocratic. There’s no public oversight, and to us, that’s just not okay. The Internet Vote is the opposite of that -- a day to remind lawmakers that transparency and openness are how politics are supposed to work.

Click here to join the Internet Vote. Together, let’s use the power of the Web to demand transparency and give people everywhere a voice against censorship.

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I just got a email from FFTF;
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Urgent: Fast Track for the TPP has passed through committee in both the House and the Senate — but right now it looks like there aren't enough votes for it to pass on the floor. Take action now to make sure it stays that way.

Dear Fight for the Future member,

Bad news first: Fast Track legislation to ram through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has now passed out of committee in both the U.S. House and Senate, and it’s moving fast.

Now the good news: just last week the House Majority Leader admitted that “the votes aren’t there yet” to get this anti-democratic, censorship-enabling legislation passed.1

But both the Obama administration and corporate-backed Republican leadership are working together to spread propaganda and claim there is “nothing secret” in the TPP – while the entire text is still classified!2 Worse, they are literally bribing reps with a fancy dinner if they vote for the Fast Track bills.3

The vote is going to be painfully close. Every second counts and every voice matters. Will you speak out today?

Click here to take urgent action to stop the Fast Track bills now.

This is a huge opportunity. If we can defeat Fast Track legislation in the U.S., it’s very likely that the entire TPP will fall apart. This is our chance to change history and to make it clear we won’t accept a future where decisions that affect our lives are made by governments in secret.

Thanks for all you do,

-Evan at Fight for the Future

P.S. Rep Nancy Pelosi now plays a key role in whether these Fast Track bills move ahead. Will you click here to tweet at her or call her office at (202) 225-4965 to tell her to oppose Fast Track for the TPP?

[1] Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/2 ... 71896.html

[2] Tech Dirt, https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150 ... ment.shtml

[3] The Hill, http://thehill.com/policy/finance/24041 ... er-invites

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04/25/2015 5:38 pm
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Oh, snap! A well thought-out response to my post. Yay!

I admit that I had to think about this for a while.

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FirecycleIt's not extortion because you aren't entitled to the internet.

Following that arguement, the cable companies should be forced to provide internet for everyone for free.

care to explain that? I'm not seeing how his logic leads to "cable companies should be forced to provide internet for free"


The person I was responding to was claiming that wrong for cable companies to make people pay for faster internet. How could it be that making people pay for faster internet is odious and exploitive extortion but making pay for internet access in the first place is perfectly acceptable. That doesn't make sense at all.

I'm not going to quote the rest of your post because nobody wants to scroll through that again, but the gist was this: without net neutrality, cable companies will be able to stifle their competition. There's two problems with this:

1. Cable companies can only stifle their opponent from advertising on the internet. I'll grant that this would be an inconvenience, but not a crippling one.

Internet providers sold their products to people before they even had internet, it's not the only way to sell a product. It might make it a little more difficult, but it would be far from impossible.

My guess is that the bad press from cable companies stifling an opponent would far outweigh any benefit from the actual act of stifling.

But that doesn't matter because:

2. It is bad to restrict freedom because a person might do something bad. Once you start punishing people for hypothetical future wrongdoings you're opening the door for totalitarian policies of every kind; from gun control to spying on citizens to concentration camps.
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04/25/2015 7:29 am
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Not this again. God damn you congress. (the ones who are against net neutrality)
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04/25/2015 7:02 am
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Daily bump! Damn Foxy that is one long post.
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04/24/2015 7:32 pm
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FirecycleIt's not extortion because you aren't entitled to the internet.

Following that arguement, the cable companies should be forced to provide internet for everyone for free.

care to explain that? I'm not seeing how his logic leads to "cable companies should be forced to provide internet for free"

On another note,
I can see that you, like me, are much more conservative when it comes to your views regarding the economy, which is why I feel you may not be looking at the full picture here, otherwise you'd almost certainly be against this.

In an ideal capitalist economy, if the public wasn't satisfied with the way a company like this provides its products/services, regardless of whatever rules the government may create about the products/services, the responsibility of finding an alternative lies in the public.
So basically we've come to what you seem to be saying: If we don't like it, sitting on our asses and crying about it shouldn't be guaranteed to make it more favorable for us. If we want something, we have to work for it, by either
1) taking our business elsewhere
or
2) creating an alternative business ourselves.

The problem with that in this situation, however, is that this law would effectively make it near impossible to ever accomplish this goal. Most of us already don't have an alternative, basically meaning Comcast-TimeWarner holds a monopoly on the internet across huge areas which in itself is illegal (so we already have one reason why we shouldn't be catering to their requests any further).
Allowing them the ability to set the speed of connection to specific sites gives them the ability to pick and choose
-which sites they give normal speed to
-which sites have no option BUT to pay extra to keep their connection speeds standard
-and which sites basically will be excluded altogether from connection

which kills the second option. All they'd have to do if another internet service provider rose up as a threat to them is charge them an the obscene amount of money to maintain any sort of connection at all, and then simply not provide the connection and blame the lack of connection on some BS excuse that they either caused or have the ability to fix. To put it simply, they would be receiving the power to prevent any competitors from ever being formed in the first place.
Sure, they claim that those who pay would just be receiving a "premium/priority" connection and that everyone else who doesn't pay would result in the normal speed, but their current actions show that this wouldn't be the case.
For example, my house currently pays for their most expensive package, and we are promised "up to 50mbps". Yet we get .05mbps and there was a point when it dropped to .005mbps even. SO we were supposedly paying the premium rate, yet we weren't even receiving the economy speed. When we downgraded, the connection was practically nonexistent. There's nothing stopping them from behaving similarly with the ability to sell connection speed to certain sites.


In short, their legality (not just their morality) is already questionable, and giving them this power only allows them more opportunities for them to operate unlawfully, and based on how they currently operate, this sort of behavior would be nothing short of guaranteed.
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04/24/2015 7:15 pm
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and unless governments impose monopolies on internet services you just switch to another provider, and the idiot that tried to charge the site owner more than they value that service now earns zero from that site, while another provider is happy having one more customer


The only issue is that there is no competition for basically the top few companies, which from a business PoV, will enforce higher fees for fast connections

so your argument is that there is no competition for exactly the highest volume customers of internet services?
in any not overly restricted industry people go to extra lengths improving their side of the deal to get large volume customers, because it means having lucrative business without having to deal with loads of different customers with each their own sometimes conflicting special wishes
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04/24/2015 5:44 pm
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My father personally met up with Ron Wyden and talked about the importance of net neutrality with him at lunch. Ron said my father changed his mind. Glad to see a few years later he is still at it

Keep up the good slacktivism though! If you think you are an activist and only protest over the internet, you are a slacktivist
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04/24/2015 3:50 pm
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BajoThe service of providing access to the internet is their property,


Exactly. And it is their right to provide that service however they see fit.

but the internet is not.


Nobody said it was.

By law, they have to treat what they're providing access to equally, otherwise they shouldn't be providing access at all. THAT would be a bad business move.


Then the law is morally wrong.

You think they should be allowed to extort people for money, and if they don't they severely throttle their internet? No, that isn't fair.


It's not extortion because you aren't entitled to the internet.

Following that arguement, the cable companies should be forced to provide internet for everyone for free.
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04/24/2015 3:43 pm
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BajoThe service of providing access to the internet is their property,


Exactly. And it is their right to provide that service however they see fit.

but the internet is not.


Nobody said it was.

By law, they have to treat what they're providing access to equally, otherwise they shouldn't be providing access at all. THAT would be a bad business move.


Then the law is morally wrong.

You think they should be allowed to extort people for money, and if they don't they severely throttle their internet? No, that isn't fair.
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04/24/2015 3:29 pm
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BajoThe service of providing access to the internet is their property,


Exactly. And it is their right to provide that service however they see fit.

but the internet is not.


Nobody said it was.

By law, they have to treat what they're providing access to equally, otherwise they shouldn't be providing access at all. THAT would be a bad business move.


Then the law is morally wrong.
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04/24/2015 2:58 pm
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04/23/2015 1:45 pm
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Ok...
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04/23/2015 12:11 am
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Didn't this get resolved back in January or February? Could have sworn we were already past this topic
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04/23/2015 1:36 pm
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Nope. They're back. They're attacking us again.
Also I'm back. yay the thread is growing.
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04/23/2015 12:00 am
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Cable companies are providing a service. This service is their property. It is morally wrong to tell them what they are and are not allowed to do with their property with government force. You are not entitled to the internet.


The service of providing access to the internet is their property, but the internet is not. By law, they have to treat what they're providing access to equally, otherwise they shouldn't be providing access at all. THAT would be a bad business move.

illdeletethis
and unless governments impose monopolies on internet services you just switch to another provider, and the idiot that tried to charge the site owner more than they value that service now earns zero from that site, while another provider is happy having one more customer


The only issue is that there is no competition for basically the top few companies, which from a business PoV, will enforce higher fees for fast connections. Unless a billionaire wants to set up their own cable company and wants to appease people and not make MORE money, content providers are going to have a hell of a hard time getting their stuff seen on the internet. Which is why net neutrality is so important

I mean, take PMC for example. While yes we do have some downtime, the connection between everything tends to be pretty good. So, if comcast etc get what they want, and Cyprezz doesn't want to / can't pay the money for a good connection speed, then browsing PMC would pretty much be impossible. It would basically mean the end of the website, which has peoples jobs on the line. Same as other sites that people make money on; if they can't pay to have fast connection they're going to lose their income source.
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04/22/2015 8:52 pm
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So, basically internet providers would be able to slow down or block websites in order to get more money without net neutrality in play?
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04/22/2015 11:40 pm
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and unless governments impose monopolies on internet services you just switch to another provider, and the idiot that tried to charge the site owner more than they value that service now earns zero from that site, while another provider is happy having one more customer
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04/22/2015 9:03 pm
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Cable companies are providing a service. This service is their property. It is morally wrong to tell them what they are and are not allowed to do with their property with government force. You are not entitled to the internet.

That being said, slowing down websites would be bad for buisness. Blocking websites would be really bad for business. But net neutrality ensures that quality of service will go down.
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04/22/2015 8:35 pm
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Sorry, I'm an idiot, what is the problem here? Not saying I support it but I'd like to understand
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04/22/2015 8:39 pm
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Cable companies want to charge more for better service. They want companies like Netflix that use A LOT of bandwidth to pay more in order to run faster.

Proponents of Net Neutrality want to make it so they can't do this, which will make all internet more expensive and reduce quality of service for everyone.
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04/22/2015 8:32 pm
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supporting "net neutrality" is a stance of misguided good intentions in the case of most, greed of the corporations lobbying for it and power hunger in the politicians and bureaucrats wanting another tool for forcing their will on the public
the average person supports net neutrality because it sounds like a nice idea, but has barely any idea what it is about
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04/22/2015 7:14 pm
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I believe I've shared this on these forums before, a long time ago.
This is a very old video. I was under the impression that everyone is already aware.
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04/22/2015 7:11 pm
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I thought you were talking about a ddos lmao
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04/22/2015 7:05 pm
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What if we took cats TO THE MOON!





Bill Murray does not understand.
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04/22/2015 4:41 pm
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Any type of art is man's greatest achievement, in my opinion. And yes, I am supporting FTFF.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnC1mqyAXmw
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04/22/2015 4:46 pm
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Net neutrality is not freedom. Freedom –true freedom– is the realization of property rights, and you cannot realize property rights by ignoring the property rights of others.
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04/22/2015 4:40 pm
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I saw this a couple months ago and expected it to be over by now, I guess I was wrong.
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04/22/2015 4:18 pm
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Kirito SwordsmanWhat if we took cats TO THE MOON!

See! This is what might disappear if fast track goes through!


(except it isn't)
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Kirito SwordsmanWhat if we took cats TO THE MOON!

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See! This is what might disappear if fast track goes through!
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04/22/2015 4:13 pm
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Oh, sweet. I guess I'm famous now.

To respond to the other quote, it is not like burning books. That is the destruction of information. It's more like mailing some books using standard shipping and mailing others using overnight shipping.

It is also not an attempt to monopolize information. Not even close. I don't know how Paril can honestly say that it is without being woefully uninformed.

And the phrase "Basic Service" is a meaningless term.
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04/22/2015 3:59 pm
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Updated thread with quotes!
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Firecycle

That's like saying that the government forcing airlines to make all seats first class would be better for everybody. It may seem nice, but now all airlines are more expensive because they can't fit as many people on the plane, which creates a higher demand.

Now there's two ways the airlines can go: They can make all airline tickets more expensive, making it so some people who wanted to use the airline can't, or they can decrease the quality of first class, so now nobody's happy flying.

The use of force, even by the government, always yields unintended consequences.

Both your and Paril's analogies are good. Include this in OP, mcrocks999!

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That's like saying that the government forcing airlines to make all seats first class would be better for everybody. It may seem nice, but now all airlines are more expensive because they can't fit as many people on the plane, which creates a higher demand.

Now there's two ways the airlines can go: They can make all airline tickets more expensive, making it so some people who wanted to use the airline can't, or they can decrease the quality of first class, so now nobody's happy flying.

The use of force, even by the government, always yields unintended consequences.

Both your and Paril's analogies are good. Include this in OP, mcrocks999!
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04/22/2015 3:40 pm
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Why is everybody blaming cable? I dont understand where 'cable is evil' came from.
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04/22/2015 3:58 pm
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Because Comcast and Time Warner are cable providers who want to destroy net neutrality.
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thenubslayer2000 Just think of what'd happen if all these were inaccessible.


That's not going to happen, net "Neutrality" or no. If you think that that is going to happen as a result of net neutrality being defeated, you do not understand the issue.

Maybe I exaggerated, but still. Unless you're an ISP, net neutrality WILL benefit you.


That's like saying that the government forcing airlines to make all seats first class would be better for everybody. It may seem nice, but now all airlines are more expensive because they can't fit as many people on the plane, which creates a higher demand.

Now there's two ways the airlines can go: They can make all airline tickets more expensive, making it so some people who wanted to use the airline can't, or they can decrease the quality of first class, so now nobody's happy flying.

The use of force, even by the government, always yields unintended consequences.
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04/22/2015 3:03 pm
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Leave it to cable to want to destroy the Internet...
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thenubslayer2000 Just think of what'd happen if all these were inaccessible.


That's not going to happen, net "Neutrality" or no. If you think that that is going to happen as a result of net neutrality being defeated, you do not understand the issue.

Maybe I exaggerated, but still. Unless you're an ISP, net neutrality WILL benefit you.
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04/22/2015 2:28 pm
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Comcast isnt doing that. I have Comcast and its acutally pretty good, everyone else just say that becuase they want money. 60MBP/s maximum and 30MBP/s minimum. is that so bad? its alot better (and cheaper) than the other isp's available in this area.
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04/22/2015 2:21 pm
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thenubslayer2000 Just think of what'd happen if all these were inaccessible.


That's not going to happen, net "Neutrality" or no. If you think that that is going to happen as a result of net neutrality being defeated, you do not understand the issue.
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04/22/2015 1:58 pm
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"This wont effect me"

Not directly, but many, many sites are US hosted. Plus, as Paril said, it is like book burning, it effects a lot.

Anyway, if this happens then I dont think it would last very long.
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04/22/2015 2:10 pm
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I like how Paril has many many vise things to say when needed. And I guess okey than, but only website from US I use is I guess PMC, Facebook and YouTube. All others I visit are hosted either near me or in my country.
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04/22/2015 2:18 pm
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I'm not hating/insulting but that couldn't be more wrong. Most MC servers and game servers are US hosted. Most sites are US hosted. Just think of what'd happen if all these were inaccessible. Even if it didn't affect you at ALL, net neutrality is still nice and if the US decides against it, other countries, including yours, may follow suit.
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04/22/2015 1:51 pm
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If the internet is under attack at all, it is under attack from state regulations, net neutrality included.

Free the market. Free the internet. Don't give the government control of this greatest of human achievement.
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04/22/2015 4:10 pm
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I thought the Moon Landing was Humanity's greatest achievement.
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04/22/2015 4:17 pm
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We have created a network that places the sum of human knowledge where it can be accessed easily by anyone at any time. A network that makes it possible -convenient even- to communicate face-to-face with someone on the other side of the world. The moon landing was great, but the internet is way cooler.
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04/22/2015 4:30 pm
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The Moon Landing was done with way less tech than what's in a cellphone.

The Moon Landing paved the way for the Internet.
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04/22/2015 4:35 pm
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And the way to the moon landing was paved by the wheel.

(Literally )

Alternatively; the way to the moon landing was paved by the cold war.

The way to the cold war was paved by communism.

Man's greatest achievement = Communism?
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