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disneydream06Not my words, but definitely my sentiments.....................
The FCC is usually always wrong, but when it comes to their stance on leaving the Internet alone, they are actually right. They are currently in a battle with various corporate interests/lobbyists over how much shit you get to see on the Internet and how fast you see it, and John McCain, who is literally 110 years old and insane, has become so friendly with these lobbyists! He even introduced a bill for them.
Fuck you, John McCain:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that would effectively allow Internet service providers to slow down or block Internet content or applications of their choosing.
The move came the same day as the federal government decided to move forward on an official Net neutrality policy that would prevent ISPs from making those types of decisions.
The FCC's new rules would prevent ISPs, for example, from blocking or slowing bandwidth-hogging Web traffic such as streaming video or other applications that put a strain on their networks or from charging different rates to users.
McCain's bill, the Internet Freedom Act, would block the Federal Communications Commission from making Net neutrality the law of the land. The rule preventing ISPs from slowing down certain types of content would create "onerous federal regulation," McCain argued in a written statement.
See how that works? Put the word "freedom" in your bill to make it a bill that Real Americans™ will bust nuts over when your bill is actually proposing the very opposite of freedom.
The FCC is usually always wrong, but when it comes to their stance on leaving the Internet alone, they are actually right. They are currently in a battle with various corporate interests/lobbyists over how much shit you get to see on the Internet and how fast you see it, and John McCain, who is literally 110 years old and insane, has become so friendly with these lobbyists! He even introduced a bill for them.
Fuck you, John McCain:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that would effectively allow Internet service providers to slow down or block Internet content or applications of their choosing.
The move came the same day as the federal government decided to move forward on an official Net neutrality policy that would prevent ISPs from making those types of decisions.
The FCC's new rules would prevent ISPs, for example, from blocking or slowing bandwidth-hogging Web traffic such as streaming video or other applications that put a strain on their networks or from charging different rates to users.
McCain's bill, the Internet Freedom Act, would block the Federal Communications Commission from making Net neutrality the law of the land. The rule preventing ISPs from slowing down certain types of content would create "onerous federal regulation," McCain argued in a written statement.
See how that works? Put the word "freedom" in your bill to make it a bill that Real Americans™ will bust nuts over when your bill is actually proposing the very opposite of freedom.
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