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The FCC plans to repeal net neutrality this week — and it could ruin the internetSteve Kovach
It's inevitable — this week, the Federal Communications Commission will drive a stake in net neutrality.
On December 14, the agency will vote to repeal the net neutrality rules it put in place in 2015. With Republicans commissioners who oppose the rules outnumbering Democrats who favor them three to two, the outcome of the vote isn't in any doubt. Your protests and #netneutrality tweets will do nothing — this is really happening.
Assuming the move isn't blocked by the courts or overturned by Congress, it could radically reshape the internet by giving an already powerful group of telecommunications companies a great deal of control over what you can see and do online. It will also likely leave you with higher prices and fewer choices.
That's all great news for the telecommunications giants – but not so good for the rest of us.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fcc-net-neutrality-repeal-will-lead-to-higher-prices-fewer-choices-2017-12
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dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)Borrowed from bingman pingman
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)but no..
dalton99a
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Lynch mob has been there already and is moving on to other liberal democrats no doubt as the republicans lock down the internet.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)His resignation, if and when, would likely be between Christmas and New Year's...
Elwood P Dowd
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RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)He can rabble rouse and create major havoc with things like this -- spearhead legal challenges, etc. He did say he was't going to give up his voice or his activism.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Thor_MN
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Orrex
(63,213 posts)Ergo, it will easily succeed, and net neutrality will vanish like a twinkle in Al Gore's eye.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The Randian republican bloodsuckers are going to bankrupt the nation for the Koch's and Putin.
Orrex
(63,213 posts)Locally, in my solidly Red western PA county, idiot Republican voters are praising Trump et al for finally taking care of business and getting things done.
Never mind that these aging idiots are going to lose their minimal safety net--they still worship Trump for "doing what's best for the country."
Many of these stupid fuckers are living on pension benefits from their (or their spouses') long-vanished union jobs. When I warned them that the GOP is 100% absolutely guaranteed to go after that money next, they call me a triggered SJW.
Fuck them. When I see them sick and starving in the street I will laugh and reassure them that Trump is doing what's best for the country.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)when Trump and his party bury a knife in their backs!
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)A seat on the FCC is the biggest gravy train around.
sarcasmo
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bdamomma
(63,868 posts)call your Reps and Senators up please.
