If you live in the United States, your government is about to f&ck you big time.
"Net Neutrality" is the notion that your internet provider can't charge you more for going on Instagram or Netflix than for shopping on Amazon or doing a quick Google Search. Until a few months ago, it was also the law. However, unless the Senate votes to overturn a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision to let Net Neutrality rules lapse, it will become legal for your ISP to charge you more for certain kinds of internet activity, and worse yet, to censor what you get to see at their discretion.
This is an artwork I did with
Lordess Foudre in support of Net Neutrality. Unfortunately, this is also probably what the internet will look like if the Senate does not vote to save Net Neutrality.
No Net Neutrality means your internet service provider could decide to charge you for visiting Cryptocurrency exchanges to buy and sell coins. They could charge you for reading and posting on Steemit. They could even block access to these sites if they so chose. We've already seen how the credit card companies have reacted to the crypto world. What would happen if Comcast decided it was in its' customers' best interest to "be protected from the volatile world of cryptocurrency"?
Fortunately, all it takes is a simple majority in the senate through something called a Congressional Review Act (CRA) to give the legislature the power to overrule the FCC's decision and preserve Net Neutrality in the USA.
If you are in one of the states highlighted in red below, PLEASE visit THIS LINK to learn more and contact your Senator.
I trust that no one here on Steemit, American or otherwise, wants to see Net Neutrality go away. So please, even if you don't live in the USA, or one of the states above, do your best to spread the word. The hashtag is #onemorevote and the website for this effort is https://www.battleforthenet.com/onemorevote/ . Thanks.
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Youtube, Facebook, Google, and Twitter already ARE F&cking a lot of Americans. These giants that are some of the biggest voices for what YOU and OTHERS are calling Net Neutrality are some of the most anti-free speech, and least neutral places on the planet.
You see labeling something "net neutrality" doesn't mean the label fits.
I believe most of us want TRUE net neutrality, but just giving something a title and playing on people's emotions doesn't make the label TRUE.
What we've had for net neutrality at various times so far was actually nothing of the sort.
Though politicians and propagandists really like latching onto emotionally charged labels that they can bash someone over "You mean you are against net neutrality?"
No. I am for TRUE net neutrality, and these BILLS are not that. Just look at the F&ckers backing this and how neutral they are.
"Deeds not words" - George Washington
At least we currently have the option to CHOOSE whether we use Facebook, Google, etc. I’d prefer that to being blocked from certain services just because I picked the wrong ISP or phone carrier.
I just hope that this won't come to Europe. Your artwork is completely true. We need to stand together against this. Its absurd that they are doing this in 21. century
Yeah I hope y'all don't get this BS in Europe. It's really annoying to watch it happening.
i thought it was already a done deal ... for now in Europe it seems to be holding but i wonder for how long ... good luck with it ... it would open a door for competition with providers who try selling themselves by not throttling anything ofcourse but in the mainstream the fight might be hard since standard people use the same standard services and most megacorp won't fight that
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See you'd think that that's how it would work but in America we're uniquely good at charging people more for the same service. Everyone just puts it on their credit card, anyway. Hope you don't get a situation like this in EU.
well ... the EU is often mistaken for something it's not ... unlike the US that got forged in blood and steal so to speak during the civil war, it actually got united, the EU is just a political and paper union and a lot of ants down here consider it nothing but an extra layer of taxes. Despite that they pass law after law and fine all countries who dont obey them (how they enforce that beats me since there is no such thing as a european military (there are joint efforts ofcourse but thats mostly to help clean up the american mess since Afghanistan and the bushwhackers family lol ... which doesnt mean i consider all americans methsmoking jarheads but the part where the politicians consider themselves "leaders of the free world" is more than often not really appreciated) and despite THAT they DO have a role that holds serious weight on global decision making.
In Europe last year (i think .. im a bit unstuck in time sometimes) Estonia tried to use the witchhunt on piracy to pass some laws that would allow the government almost absolute control over what content could be put online and what not so its not really a certainty and the lobby here might not be what it is there, but it certainly exists and actually
id think your senators and congressmen would have more pressing matters at hand like
https://www.wired.com/story/us-border-patrol-hasnt-validated-e-passport-data-for-years/
... passing patriot acts and all that, then not installing software to check passports that probably cost billions to develop and distribute ... i'd say politics is politics much all over the globe, i like to refer to it as poly-ethics since they put on more faces before breakfast than most of us would wear in a week
its a never ending fight, almost Tolkien-esque, almost like fighting the actual terrorists globally, you just bat an eyelid or fall asleep for five seconds and they pass a law "behind closed doors" named a little differently with a little bit of the text revised but actually it does exactly the same as the one they "would never pass because they heard the voice of the people"
and so on xD
pardon my babble, its a topic that never cools
i hope you can beat the race there (and thx for the vote , much appreciated)
No one here deals with real issues. Some of our states just made it legal for teachers to carry guns in classrooms to fight off potential school shooters. Uhhh
8-O ... that should help with concentration lol ... talk back get shot hm ? i don't think real issues are considered politicians jobs, i think they all agree that's for activists ... but teachers carrying guns in school ? i'm already stuck on the fact that every traffic cop here carries a 9mm and full set of baton, mace and the works ... unlike england and such where imo chances at violent crime and bombings are a lot higher ... it all assumes that politicians, judges, cops (and in your case apperently teachers too) are super-human ... they won't snap while the students will ?
probably sounds reasonable too if they give the speech in their $10k suit ...
i dont think id let my kids attend a school where theres cowboys dissin out the order of the day ... what if one of them doesnt like mondays or didnt get laid last night or found his wife in bed with his neighbour ?
they're just supposed to be robocop about it ...
afaik judges are elected there, no ? here they're appointed for life, which means they can't actually make mistakes as such court decisions are never revoked
a court of law, not justice ...
teachers in school carrying guns ... i better not talk about that too much, its been evolving to a police state under the guise of democracy for years now, the right slowly taking over and i have no clue what they wanna do with it since this place with its 10mln people and three national languages and five governments cant do jack fkin shti by itself
the price of freedom is eternal vigilance .... watch for criminals and watch for cops ;-)
im still hoping to see some new tek that puts connectivity back in the hands of the populace, not government, some kind of node system whatever b/c i feel the way things are going they will grab more and more control (while blaming it on the russians and the chinese) ... encryption's one thing but if they got a total killswitch on the actual infrastructure they still can tear it out by the root
(owh im going off topic again xD but i guess thats what i doo, too much festering shit inside my brain ... used to be funky ... i think ... im not sure anymore)
I can imagine if ISP has the control to what you want to see on the internet. It would be catastrophic indeed. I think it's against freedom and one step near to poor people getting poorer since their simple privilege to explore things with internet freely is about to end.
Hahaha this is America we don’t officially have poor people, only “the middle class” and “minorities”... the first one gets oppressed with credit card debt, the second gets oppressed by the police :)
I hope this has nothing to do with Africa. It's saddening that all this is happening.
I don’t know what the internet political landscape looks like in Africa. I hear there’s substantial government censorship in some countries, though
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No net neutrality is such a bitch. It's so unfortunate that they have to charge so much for not only internet services but certain websites like Instagram etc. Recently millions of activists pressured the Federal Communications Commission to adopt historic Net Neutrality rules that keep the internet free and open allowing people to share and access information of their choosing without interference. No net neutrality denies our right to communicate online freely. I vote in favor of net neutrality.
yes! We must keep the internet free and open! please spread the word
Sure thing mate.
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the trend in the united states is for every good thing to be bought, deregulated and resold as a bullshit version like water in Flint, until more people like you are ready to do something, people like me have to live in a different country.
As it happens 83% of voters are in favour of net neutrality. This is all on the politicians being... well, politicians
there is no real politics in the united states as of this time.
politics implies people debating over issues and building support among a population of voters. that is not what is happening. cnn is preventing revolt by explaining things the bribed functionaries do in congress while they act without any regard for the actual citizens and only represent institutions like corporations and other expressions of wealth.
no taxation without representation is the rule, and on every important issue the congress has proved it doesn't represent the people. so you should stop paying your taxes, and your debts, if you really want change.
We have to come together to fight against this thing so that it won't spread to all part of the world,it is really absurd that they would even think of it in this period of advancement in technology
Right???
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