Monopolized Corporate Message Control.

If you're not familiar with that term, you will be soon.

See everyone has an ISP right? If you're not living on a campus, most of us pay somebody to have access to the internet, whether it's Verizon, AOL, Sprint, AT&T or whoever, they charge you for a monthly access fee. But they're also selling all your contact info to the highest bidder, including all your searches, favorites, etc. That's what advertisers want to know - if you're buying a new car, looking for a house, or something else they can sell you.

The next step will be to prevent us from doing things, like don't shop for your car from company A because we want you to buy from company B. Don't stream a movie from there because we want you to go here. There will be lots of things to stop us from doing, I'm just trying to make this brief point.

With a VPN you control your own privacy, and your ISP can't snoop and sell your info. It's not illegal but it's something they'd rather we didn't know about. Some VPNs are free, some charge a small amount. I pay $15 every 3 months for my VPN and I feel that it's well worth it. I can cancel anytime I want. I also have Verizon Fios internet service and it's awesomely fast, but they're tracking everything I do online. What the VPN does is hide your real IP address and show a temporaily reassigned IP address instead. Each time you go online, it's a different IP address just for that session.

When the government abolishes our net neutrality, it's going to cost everyone more money, that's the whole point of this naked Republican money grab.

Yes, a VPN is a good way to offset throttling/censorship.

I have to use a VPN for work, as do many people. Because of that, I doubt ISPs will totally prohibit VPNs (although many would like to do exactly that)

I guarantee you, however, that they will try to charge VPN users extra for some sort of "work at home plan". Expect it to be expensive.

Still worth it, though.

...but they aren't because of the dollar signs in their eyes. I mention it here on DU because a lot of people don't even know what it is, or why they would need it.

I was blocked around April 3 from making comments all across You Tube with no response from Google despite multiple attempts for an explanation. How can I fix this?

Also why does it take FIVE days before an email bounces when it was a legitimate email? Maybe the recipient read my letter and just decided not to respond? The error message was the typical "multiple attempts to deliver have failed".

Thank you for any respectful responses.

These are the emails of the 5 people on the FCC commission.

Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn have come out as No votes. We need only to convince ONE of the other members to flip to a No vote to save Net Neutrality. Mike O'Rielly was hired by Obama so go after him the most.

Blow up their inboxes!

Ajit Pai - Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
Mignon Clyburn - Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov
Michael O'Rielly - Mike.ORielly@fcc.gov
Brendan Carr - Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Jessica Rosenworcel - Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov

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We need to go straight to the source.

Will do!

And I'm going to be sending emails like crazy.

On edit. Just sent to all five of them.

competitor out of business.

It can be a great deal more than just censorship, and censorship is not necessarily the motive. I'm just saying you can't reduce "the opposite of net neutrality" to censorship alone. Particularly when it increases the costs of certain content. Making certain information more expensive is not censorship.

I'm glad to report that some of them get it, but there are still many that don't. The ones that don't have no idea why, other than it started under Obama. That is what I have found.

support conversation and opinions that challenge our party or are we a tribal clan?

The FCC decision allows large corporations to censor what we can see on the internet. Plain and simple.