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Bleh. Half of the other websites I browse have, for some reason, decided to become terrified because "we didn't get to read the proposal before it was voted on" and "but now the evil gubmint will get to ban porn" and "obamacare for the internet." Even places like Imgur, which I'm flabbergasted even has a community. It's frustrating,
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District Selectman posted:Unelected government bureaucrats are just as unaccountable as corporate bureaucrats (we call them employees) I think mostly they're called employees in the government, too!
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Comcast will not stop being a little poo poo. However, approximately a handful of ways they were planning to be a little poo poo have now been preempted by the horrifying decision that the internet should stay more or less as it is. That's all! Hardly earthshaking, except that a few months ago we were all convinced that Comcast would be permitted to continue being a little poo poo in those specific ways. It's not like the Internet wasn't being regulated by the FCC earlier, either. This rule is just a replacement for some older rules that Verizon had thrown out by a court, rewritten to comply with the court's ruling.
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Pauline Kael posted:How do you know any of this? The FCC refuses to release any of the new rules for review. Obama and the FCC have you just where they want you - all the retards cheering 'victory' without having any actual idea what the new rules are. Don't any of you cheerleaders have a problem with this notion of passing rules and/or laws without allowing any public review? I live in the tariff world, we can't do ANYTHING without significant advanced notice, and significant time for public comment. How on earth should the Federal government, the grantor of all your rights, have such a lower standard? I'm pleased you think I'm a retard for not wanting Comcast to be able to hold my infrastructure for ransom. For the moment, this is a summary of the rules which were voted on; I've been unable to find any statement from any of the individuals with access to the full text of the rules that the summary is factually incorrect. If that were an objection which could be reasonably raised, you can count on the two Republican members of the FCC, let alone any of their aides, to have raised it. At any rate, the rules will by statute have to be exposed to public scrutiny before they can go into effect. So until then it's hardly in anyone's best interest to begin immediately panicking about how the government is coming to take away your porn-- after all, the telephone lines are regulated under the exact same rule and legislation, and phone sex hotlines remain (somehow) a booming business.
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Nintendo Kid posted:When people say it has no effect, we're referring to the vast majority of the forum's experience. Like if you already got service, it's not going to get you faster or better service any time soon. And if you don't already have broadband, you probably aren't on here. I dunno, you could be accessing SomethingAwful via IP Over Avian Carriers. Assuming they're carrying SSDs chock full of the latest fresh developments in D&D, you could be as little as two weeks behind the times!
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