Net neutrality nonsense: Can we, please, just not all lose our minds?

[steve2470]

(disclaimer: I am not endorsing this article, just posting for comments)

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/28/its_back_net_neutrality_nonsense_roundup/

And if all that wasn't ridiculous enough, FCC chair Ajit Pai is being personally targeted in the real world by people who have lost their minds to such an alarming degree that they are scribbling messages on cardboard naming his kids and taping them onto lampposts near his home.

"Is this really the world you want [kid's name] and [kid's name] to inherit?" one demented notice reads. "How will they ever look you in the eye again?"

Another reads, no lie: "Dad murdered democracy in cold blood."

According to one report, Pai's home was also inundated with pizzas over the weekend, with a new one arriving every 30 minutes. A harmless prank or a sign that people have lost their minds?

I dunno, I don't feel too sympathetic to Mr. Pai, but I wouldn't do the pizzas thing to him, etc.

[mdbl]

1. the author assumes diplomacy works with Repugs

When you start with the wrong assumption, the rest of the argument is moot. We lost our democracy years ago - now there is just a few more things fascism needs to dismantle our hard fought for social policies- Ending net neutrality is one of them.

[Orrex]

2. Attempting diplomacy with Repubs is like asking your mugger to stop stabbing you

[Egnever]

3. Net neutrality is not nonsense

It has the potential to change the internet completely from an internet of unlimited freedom to one controlled by gatekeepers.

It has the potential to change the world going forward. Just as the internet has changed the world up to this point.

There is nothing about this that is not alarming. Net nuetrality is to nebulous it should be called net censorship. Currently the net is free of censorship and has given voice to millions who otherwise would not have had one. if the changes proposed are allowed that could fundamentally change.

We are close to breaking free of the cable TV model that has kept us all spoon fed the information the gatekeepers want us to get. Ending net nuetrality would put us right back in that box.

With Right wing lunatics buying up media companies at a staggering pace ending net nuetrality would put them in control of everything you can see or read. It would not happen overnight but would be a slow burn till eventually we would all be back in an aol like catered internet.

Your hair SHOULD be on fire over this.

[steve2470]

4. totally agree! nt

[mdbl]

5. slow burn is a good way to put it

just like our society has been on a slow burn since the election of Ronald Raygun.