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RE: 1-800-NET-RAPE (Save Net Neutrality! #OneMoreVote)
Because the government doesn’t actually censor the internet. You are right there are many other issues at hand here. But I just want to be able to use the internet normally in peace. The fight against communications companies’ monopolies is a fight for another day
Also... thanks for the good conversation. I am glad you seem to have realized right away I wasn't attacking you. :) That makes me happy. I just want people to be a lot more aware of what they are advocating for and not let corrupt politicians bamboozle them by making them think they are supporting one thing, when actually it is a trojan horse.
Being a network engineer definitely gives you a unique and nuanced perspective on the issue. Most of us are looking at it from a basic consumer/small-business level. I'm more concerned about the free flow of information than anything else. Yes Facebook and Google may be responsible for some level of "censorship" but as private companies that is more or less their right - and by using their services consumers are agreeing to that censorship. However, I (and hopefully most Americans) am much more comfortable with Facebook hiding certain things from my newsfeed and still being able to type in www. any site i want to go to .com and not have to pay extra than I would be about being charged to visit certain websites just because of who I'm already paying to access the internet in the first place. Particularly if those pay walls start going up along political lines. The issues that actually happen on the internet are definitely real and worth taking a serious, critical look at, but in supporting net neutrality I hope that we can at least maintain the prospect of addressing those issues in the future rather than seeing the web carved up according to corporate interests.
If you are supporting their current bills then you are supporting a label.
That isn't net neutrality.
Me too. We simply need to learn facts, and be vigilant as we should know by how many times they've screwed us over how they like to name things one thing, and have it be nothing of the sort.
They can label it NET NEUTRALITY.
And have an army of people angry because someone doesn't support "net neutrality" when the bill being proposed isn't net neutrality except in name only.
"Deeds not words"