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*shades eyes with hand* What's that on the horizon? An angry mob of monochrome people with Guy Fawkes masks?

Anyway, it is ridiculous that they're trying to pass this, although I wish people would realize that there's more to life than the internet and get fired up like this about other important issues.

Finally, inb4 government websites start mysteriously crashing.

Caption Contest

The soon-to-be-victimized photo today is none other than:



I'll kick it off:

"My wife said I'm this big, but AT&T and Comcast promises that they'll pay me enough to buy all the \/1@gra I read about in my spam email to fix that.  I'll show her!"

Wrong thread?

Quote from: Jackabomb on December 21, 2010, 12:45:52 PM
Wrong thread?

Not true. I have no idea who he is but my guess is that he is the person behind this bill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Genachowski

The Latin honour he received is going to be made fun of. I can already see it. "Hey, your the guy that received the magna cum laude!" I'm sure you can guess what I am referring to.

Oh. Okay then. I learned something today.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/21/fcc.net.neutrality/index.html?hpt=T2

It's the end of the world as we know it

I hope congress can pull the FCC's head out of their ass.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/fcc-priority-access-deals-unlikely-to-get-past-new-open-internet-rules.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Hmmmmm....  Really?

This is kind of confusing. Everything I'm reading about this makes it look like the rules do NOT allow for pay for priority. That's a good thing...

The point is that they pretend to do this because its what people have wanted, but that they do an absolutely horrendous job at it and essentially have so many loopholes that it will allow for the companies to do just the opposite of what it is intended to prevent. Hence many people calling it "false/fake net neutrality." Pretty much just a ploy by many providers to pretend like they are giving people what they want while still being able to screw us. People have been wanting a bill like this for a long time, and are upset that when it finally arrived it fell short by a ton of what it would need to get the job done. I'm not expert though, so someone else could probably explain things better.

I'm starting to like Europe.

all i know is i hope it does not pass cuz all most every time the big companys get there hands on things is goes to hell for use i work for one so i know lol.


Does anyone know ho it is ging btw i need to look it up and if i find anything out i will let you all know

Quote from: Meiun on December 22, 2010, 08:55:29 PM
The point is that they pretend to do this because its what people have wanted, but that they do an absolutely horrendous job at it and essentially have so many loopholes that it will allow for the companies to do just the opposite of what it is intended to prevent. Hence many people calling it "false/fake net neutrality." Pretty much just a ploy by many providers to pretend like they are giving people what they want while still being able to screw us. People have been wanting a bill like this for a long time, and are upset that when it finally arrived it fell short by a ton of what it would need to get the job done. I'm not expert though, so someone else could probably explain things better.

Yeah like Meiun said the way they worded this legislation allows for companies to basically do what the bill was intended to prevent because of it's vagueness and lack of strict guidelines that specifically prevent what is essentially discrimination against the non mega-corps that can dish out a couple billion to be bandwidth hogs.

i would like to personally read te bill because the way they are going to get the things they want is to all so throw something in the bill tht makes since and should be pasted but they can get away with what they want .

sorry idk how to word that lol if you know politics then you will know what i mean