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tsa posted:Yea I'm sure a bunch of rich white people will be perfectly fine with paying lots of taxes. Plenty already are.
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So the meeting begins.. right now actually. And as a noted philopsopher (The Joker) once said.. Here.... we... go. FCC meeting is live on C-Span 3, and http://www.fcc.gov/live SirFozzie fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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So far the first republican is saying "States Rights!!!!11"
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Dehry posted:So far the first republican is saying "States Rights!!!!11" Interstate Commerce?
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and now Sir Tim! .... on the crappiest video stream ever. e: Ajit Pai is a douchebag. cr0y fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Dehry posted:So far the first republican is saying "States Rights!!!!11" Rhode Island and Delaware should put up giant towers to transmit and dump all the power they have into them then charge the surrounding states to turn it off. Its tradition.
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 THE FCC HAS APPROVED WHEELER'S OPEN INTERNET PLAN
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cr0y posted:
We're all gonna die!  Right?
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hobbesmaster posted:Rhode Island and Delaware should put up giant towers to transmit and dump all the power they have into them then charge the surrounding states to turn it off. Its tradition. This is actually what Delaware does. Except corporations instead of towers.
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It is written in Revelations that Open Internet was one of the four horses.
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ElegantFugue posted:This is actually what Delaware does. Except corporations instead of towers. That doesn't impede other state's though
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Takoluka posted:It is written in Revelations that Open Internet was one of the four horses. "Then I saw when the FCC broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a Netflix account; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer."
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Wholly Chao, the internet is now a public utility in the United States.
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So can we finally get a thread title change or
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Tom Wheeler: "This is the proudest day of my public policy life." "I've been working towards title II since summer [2014, before Obama's address]". Maybe I was wrong about the former industry lobbyist? 
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Johnny Cache Hit posted:Tom Wheeler: Most people forget the last time he was a cable lobbyist was in the 80s (which he left to work for one of Canada's first cable ISPs until it folded a year later), and that he stopped being a cell phone lobbyist in 2004, yeah.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Wholly Chao, the internet is now a public utility in the United States. This is broadly a good thing, right? Municipalities can now create their own broadband infrastructure without being limited or restricted by ISPs like Comcast or Time Warner? No blocking or throttling?
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a shameful boehner posted:This is broadly a good thing, right? Municipalities can now create their own broadband infrastructure without being limited or restricted by ISPs like Comcast or Time Warner? No blocking or throttling? There was a separate vote for repealing restrictions on municipal broadband but the Rs also voted against that.
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RuanGacho posted:There was a separate vote for repealing restrictions on municipal broadband but the Rs also voted against that. Huh. everything I'm reading is that those restrictions were/will be overturned by the ruling
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RuanGacho posted:There was a separate vote for repealing restrictions on municipal broadband but the Rs also voted against that.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:As in another 3-2 vote? Yeah, there were two. That was the one "STATE'S RIGHTS  " came up in both the Republican talking points.
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Here's Verizon being huge babies about it: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/26/8116259/verizon-net-neutrality-vote-response-morse-code
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Here's Verizon being huge babies about it: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/26/8116259/verizon-net-neutrality-vote-response-morse-code I believe the code there more accurately translates to "wah, wah, wah, we're giant goddamn babies, give us a bottle, wah."
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Here's Verizon being huge babies about it: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/26/8116259/verizon-net-neutrality-vote-response-morse-code I find myself oddly thrilled, in a good and happy way, by how much Verizon and it's buddies are crying over the new regulations.
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As much as I want something other than Comcast, if my option was those whiny overcharging babies at Verizon, I think i'd stick with the evil empire I know  a shameful boehner posted:Huh. everything I'm reading is that those restrictions were/will be overturned by the ruling
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 This picture makes me so much happier than it has any right to.
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Mo_Steel posted:"Then I saw when the FCC broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a Netflix account; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer." "When the FCC broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come.” And another, a public utilities van, went out; and to him who sat at the wheel, it was granted to place optic fibers in the earth, and that men would download from one another at gigabyte speeds; and an optical network terminal was given to him."
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The Macaroni posted:
This is a hell of a composition for an image to represent the issue as well as just for general optics.
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Lots of talk about potential "government censorship" in the news regarding net neutrality, but literally no mention of the fact that ISPs have already been caught engaging in censorship in the past, which is something this bill aims to prevent. Unbelievable how utterly worthless the mainstream media has become in informing people
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That's not a bug, it's a feature. I mean Comcast owns NBC so I'm sure they will come out strong against this.
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Mo_Steel posted:"Then I saw when the FCC broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a Netflix account; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer." Freakazoid_ posted:"When the FCC broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come.” And another, a public utilities van, went out; and to him who sat at the wheel, it was granted to place optic fibers in the earth, and that men would download from one another at gigabyte speeds; and an optical network terminal was given to him." Then when the FCC opened the third seal I heard the third living creature saying, "Come!" So I looked, and here came a Google fiber van! The one who rode it had Gigabit Internet +TV in his hand.
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a shameful boehner posted:This is broadly a good thing, right? Municipalities can now create their own broadband infrastructure without being limited or restricted by ISPs like Comcast or Time Warner? No blocking or throttling? Yes, that is all very good stuff. 
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Mo_Steel posted:"Then I saw when the FCC broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a Netflix account; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer." Freakazoid_ posted:"When the FCC broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come.” And another, a public utilities van, went out; and to him who sat at the wheel, it was granted to place optic fibers in the earth, and that men would download from one another at gigabyte speeds; and an optical network terminal was given to him." MariusLecter posted:Then when the FCC opened the third seal I heard the third living creature saying, "Come!" So I looked, and here came a Google fiber van! The one who rode it had Gigabit Internet +TV in his hand.
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And Satan laughed as high speed porn access was rolled out nationwide, allowing him to tempt goodly Christians in their own home at a reasonable connection speed.
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Let's see those libertarian tears, too, while we're at it. Can't let the government impede the free marketquote:In the meantime, though, it means that the FCC has taken an unprecedented and fear-reaching step in order to make good on one of the Obama administration’s long-running political priorities—a step that solves no significant existing problem, but is instead designed largely to fend off hypothetical harms, and give the agency far more power over the Internet in the process.
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The Macaroni posted:When the FCC opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Unmetered Bandwidth, and Peer-to-Peer Sharing was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to serve by high-definition video, teleconferencing, torrents, and multiplayer gaming, and by the wild downloads of the earth. When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the bench the souls of those who had lost profits because of the FCC and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign GOP, conservative and true, until you repeal this decision and avenge our profits?” Then each of them was given a football stadium, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow telecoms, their AT&T's and Time Warners, were killed just as they had been.
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Johnny Cache Hit posted:Tom Wheeler: I will happily say I was dead wrong and assumed the worst about him when he was appointed, given his CV. It's the good kind of wrong. He's a good dingo. E: A DINGO ATE MY PROFITS FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Pussy Cartel posted:Let's see those libertarian tears, too, while we're at it. Can't let the government impede the free market I had to check if it was indeed a "fear-reaching step" that was taken..of course it was. I'm going to go cower now at the thought of regulations upon our glorious and beloved ISP's.
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Pussy Cartel posted:Let's see those libertarian tears, too, while we're at it. Can't let the government impede the free market To paraphrase: "There are some new regulations coming. What do people need to know about this?" "There was never a problem" [Yeah, thanks for explaining the regulations by sticking your head in the sand and going "neener neener neener", dickhead.] "Well, uh, some people say they have no alternatives for ISPs and that is a problem" "Yeah, this will make that worse, somehow" "But you just said that there weren't any problems" "Well, most people have three choices for data and at least one of them is fast so  ""But people say we are getting a raw deal compared to other countries" "We spent way more money on infrastructure per person than Europe, and now nobody will want to spend any" And it just goes downhill from there.
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