[Very Important] Save the Internet - Regulators are deciding the future of Europe’s Internet right now and #Steem can help!
This summer, the EU decides on net neutrality. If we lose, European ISPs win the power to give some sites & apps special treatment—while slowing others to a crawl. Please, sign the petition below and spread the world!
European Regulators are about to decide whether to give big telecoms corporations the power to influence what we can (and can’t) do online. Europe urgently needs clear net neutrality guidelines to protect our freedoms and rights online.
Send message from: https://www.savenetneutrality.eu/ | https://savetheinternet.eu/
How can steemit.com help this cause
Why not add the banner to #steemit ? This way it would reach more and more people and more awareness for this important cause. Here's the link to the github to implement it: https://github.com/fightforthefuture/eunetneutrality#banner-widget-dark-theme
Support as individual - I'm starting to do it!
You can do your part by starting to add this at the bottom of every post you make, it's just the image and url, From now on I'll have it on all my posts:
https://www.savenetneutrality.eu/
https://savetheinternet.eu/
What is "Net Neutrality" (From Wikipedia):
Net neutrality (also network neutrality, Internet neutrality, or net equality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003, as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier.[1][2][3][4]
A widely cited example of a violation of net neutrality principles was the Internet service provider Comcast secretly slowing uploads from peer-to-peer file sharing applications using forged packets.[5] Research suggests that a combination of policy instruments will help realize the range of valued political and economic objectives central to the network neutrality debate.[6] Combined with strong public opinion, this has led some governments to regulate broadband internet services as a public utility, similar to electricity, gas and water supply along with limiting providers and options those providers can offer.[7]
Continues here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality
Article on Wired: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/net-neutrality-european-union-vote (props to @alexgr for sharing this link)
FOR FREEDOM SAKE - SEND YOUR MESSAGE TO THE EU REGULATOR TODAY!
https://www.savenetneutrality.eu/ | https://savetheinternet.eu/
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Folks, at the moment Europe has the world's freest Internet.
Weather you're american, European, Chinese, Indian, African or even Mesoamerican, you don't want Europe to fuck this up, because the cancer WILL spread. So, upvote this, retweet this, and in general, make your voice heard on this particular issue. Always defend freedom on the internet, and NEVER make compromises on this matter, or we'll never see an invention the likes of the blockchain again.
Do we have info on the current dynamics in terms of who supports what in control structures like the European Parliament, the Commission etc? Knowing the ratios would be good, before turning into full-blown-alarmist mode.
Alex, any time people try to fuck with your freedom to network (associate) you want people going into alarmist mode, fast and hard. The consequences of doing anything else are unimaginably awful. Have you ever been to China? Used their Internet?
Oh, wait, they don't have that.
Have you ever had a nation state delete all of your social media accounts because you might have visited a certain region at a certain time and there might have been civil unrest there?
Yeah, that's old hat for me. Literally fucking traumatic man, because see you have all your contacts in there right? I mean all of them-- work, friends, people in between, landlord, girlfriend, her family-- you lose EVERYONE, at once. Sure, you might have your friends out in the "real" internet but that's what we're trying to avoid here.
Go and read the last page of 1984. You don't need to read the whole book, just the last page. That's why we're getting alarmist, and that's why getting alarmist is entirely the right thing to do.
Everyone Else,
I implore you to freak out as well . Ya know these cryptocurrencies we like. They have this hard dependency on a very special network, most of us refer to as the Internet. Challenge anyone who wants to censor or monitor your internet access, weather their reasoning is political or commerical it doesn't matter: You're either going to be free or not, nothing more or less than that.
Excellent points all around. The reason I'm asking before I go full-alarmist, is due to the fact that there is always some faction that wants to pass something weird but they can't due to the broader dynamics and ratios. For example, there may be a pedophile party that wants to legalize sex with minors. That wouldn't bring out my "alarmist" mode if their social traction was at 1-2-3%. In fact if I opposed them at their early stages, I would "advertise" them. I would start getting alarmed if their traction grew bigger and they were having realistic chances of passing their agenda.
That's why I was asking about ratios. If say the situation was reversed and we had like 95% of the E.Parliament reject it and 5% in favor, it's not something that is the same as now where the lobbies are winning.
On a personal level I've been promoting net neutrality at a legislative level, with various local government officials (Greece), around 10 years ago when nobody here even knew what net neutrality meant .
What it need it's just that, a "Full-blown-alarmist mode" but in a good way because, for example, on the US the Net Neutrality didn't pass ONLY because there was a lot of resistance a manifestation against the bill.... People's Pressure manage to win that time.... if the EU citizens stay in the dark, they can be caught in a decision without their knowledge, and if it passes... as I said, I will not stop there!
I've been googling the dynamics that I was asking about earlier, it seems the lobbies are ahead of the people at this stage with votes like this: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/net-neutrality-european-union-vote
...so yes, alarmist mode is justified. Thanks.
thanks for confirming that! I'll use that link on the main post. Thanks again!
Thanks, we need to unite and share what's going on, people must be informed. A good way would be to put this post on the top of the listings for more expose.
But, it's kind of scary this issue with net neutrality.... dam corporations and their games behind the stage...
This is disturbing news for us living in Asia. We often look to the european model to try to lessen the grip of Governments around here. If Europe buckles, we will have no arguments anymore. Internet as a medium has been successful in improving the quality of life, and income, in most developing nations but its most dramatic impact has been on the dissemination of information regarding oppressive regimes which flourish blatantly. Europe has to study the consequences such a move would have in other parts of the world and hopefully, refrain from passing this regulation.
Plus, where would we get our VPN servers if Europe went dark?
Support the cause. Got my vote.
EU thanks you!
Nice post....
Thanks for this guide
These regulations need to get lost inside of Area 51.
https://steemit.com/area/@steve-mcclair/area-51-steemit-has-arrived
#savetheinternet has my vote!
Supported!
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