[ SECRET POST #3979 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3979 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Net Neutrality

[(Anonymous)]

This is incredibly naive, but why are these companies so willing to take the risk of seriously pissing off the people who use their products/services? How can they still make money while alienating consumers?

Re: Net Neutrality

[(Anonymous)]

Because they know the people who use their services don't have a choice. The VAST majority of people in the US only have 1-2 internet providers to choose from (including me). And most of those are the 3-4 huge companies that provide it.

Re: Net Neutrality

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Yeah this. I have a choice between AT&T and Comcast. And most consumers don't read the fine print.

Re: Net Neutrality

[(Anonymous)]

People aren't going to stop buying Internet access, though. And I think they're willing to accept customer anger in return for enormously fat stacks of cash. I mean that's kind of how the whole thing works, isn't it? They screw us as hard as they can, same as always.

Re: Net Neutrality

[(Anonymous)]

People don't really have a realistic choice to nut use the internet anymore, though. It'd be almost as hard as giving up running water or electricity. And most people only have two choices of ISP at most, a lot of people don't have a choice, if there's only one ISP in their area. And over 20 states have laws on the books to make it hard or illegal for local municipalities to set up government run utility-type ISPs. The big telecomm companies want to fuck us over, and they've bought 3 of the 5 seats on the FCC Commission to make sure they vote to let them screw us.

Re: Net Neutrality

[(Anonymous)]

What can we realistically do to fight this?

Re: Net Neutrality

[(Anonymous)]

Vote better.

Re: Net Neutrality

[(Anonymous)]

Write and or call the members of the committee and ask them to vote to keep net neutrality because it's important for small businesses/schooling/whatever you use it for? Write and or call your own congresscritters?

The current members of the FCC commission are Ajit Pai, Mignon Clyburn, Brendan Carr, Michael O'Rielly, and Jessica Rosenworcel. Clyburn and Rosenworcel are Democrats who've said they'll be voting to keep net neutrality. Pai, Carr, and O'Rielly are Republicans, and I don't know how much good bugging Pai would do since he's been jerking off at the idea of repealing net neutrality for awhile now. Maybe concentrate on O'Rielly and Carr?

... Or hope Trump gets impeached and a bunch of his administration goes with him and whoever his successor is doesn't think torpedoing the internet is a great idea.

Apparently Ajit Pai has said that they're disregarding online comments because so many emails/faxes etc were form letters, which is hilarious, horrifying, and disgusting because a) a lot of legit objectors used apps that sent form letters, but there was a big scandal where some person or persons unknown (like, say, a corporation cough cough) made tons of comments in favor of repealing net neutrality using stolen identities, but Pai was totally against investigating who might've been behind it (hmm I wonder...) because it wasn't important.