U.S. killing net neutrality

Instead of viewing the internet as a utility and a basic service to be provided to people at managed and affordable rates like water and electricity, the U.S. is moving to make it a strict and limited pay to play model. Rural and remote areas will find it even harder to get good quality access. The U.S. continues to ramp up the volume on "haves vs. have nots" as the information age essential service of connecting through broadband becomes a pawn in the game of opportunity. Instead of making access more equal and amenable to the needs of an informed society, more and more people will struggle to link into the world wide web. Another example of how equality is a figure of speech getting squashed ever more frequently daily under the rhetoric and reality of excessive and exploitative individualism under a burgeoning plutocracy.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/21/republicans-are-about-to-kill-the-open-internet-net-neutrality-winlock-washington

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This is such an important topic that we need to raise hell about. It's becoming illegal, dangerous and yes even deadly to speak up and go against the accepted narrative. We need to fight this...but how?

There is no way to fight against all the injustices, the only way is for the just to transform consciousness.

Nice post,

I heard a few years back the UK were planning to basically make the country 100% covered wifi everywhere for free. Catch is, they collect all the and store all your information. We all know they already collect our information but this would have been on a grander scale and out in the open, not hidden behind closed doors.

It ill be fun to see what happens over the next 20-30 years.

They'll stop at nothing to protect their U$D money and slow bitcoin.

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