This dude.......

[Printimus]

Why does he want to crush our hopes and dreams of a free internet?
Article below:
Ajit Pai doubles down on stance that states can't enact their own net neutrality rules.

 

[Blind Owl]

Come to Canada

 

[Printimus]

Come to Canada

If it werent for the cold...i would consider it.

 

[Han Burgundy]

*Snip*


#No violent threats please.

 

[StdDev]

Ajit Pai is to the FCC what Scott Pruit was to the EPA... and for basically identical reasons.

 

[Thalstan]

Please, do not make threats or posts that could be considered a threat against US government officials. That is not protected speech and is actually a felony under US law. I am sure that you don’t want a visit from the FBI or the secret service.

Spirited debate and if necessary, legal protests are much more effective, as is voting in local, state, and federal elections.

 

[Han Burgundy]

Someone should lock themselves in the back seat with this fine gentleman and let loose with the rotten flatus of our ancestors, stopping only when his will to live has been extracted from his soul.

(PG enough for ya?)

Spoiler

Some people deserve the justice that angry mobs will bring to their doorstep.

 

[Printimus]

Please, do not make threats or posts that could be considered a threat against US government officials. That is not protected speech and is actually a felony under US law. I am sure that you don’t want a visit from the FBI or the secret service.

Spirited debate and if necessary, legal protests are much more effective, as is voting in local, state, and federal elections.

Well said.

Let's try to be civil about this discussion.

 

[Shiwaz]

Let's try to be civil about this discussion.

KILL ALL THE THINGS!

 

[ShakyWater]

I'd be more impressed if the people who spent the last few weeks openly purging wrong think from the internet weren't the same people telling me this is the end of the free internet.

 

[Sraika]

also i hear article 13 passed so there's that to worry about too :/

 

[Agent_Mothman]

Because he was paid to felate big telcom.

 

[ShakyWater]

The tech industry vocally opposed the FCC's decision to reverse Obama-era net neutrality policies.

https://www.cnet.com/news/heres-how-techs-facebook-twitter-trump-reddit-responding-to-the-net-neutrality-vote/

AS TWITTER SUSPENDS ALEX JONES, SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT SILICON VALLEY REGULATING SPEECH?

https://theintercept.com/2018/08/15/alex-jones-twitter-infowars-ban-free-speech/

Forgive me if I don't join in all at once with this lot.

 

[hardroc77]

Well once a whore.....

 

[Blind Owl]

If it werent for the cold...i would consider it.

Cold? What cold?

 

[Printimus]

Cold? What cold?

You know...... canadia....

 

[Printimus]

KILL ALL THE THINGS!

^ Usually funny, but not when actually making a real life threat. Now if this post were about something in the SC universe, i might even advocate this.

 

[Printimus]

I'd be more impressed if the people who spent the last few weeks openly purging wrong think from the internet weren't the same people telling me this is the end of the free internet.

Are we slowly being introduced to a future similar to the novel of 1984?

 

[Lorddarthvik]

Are we slowly being introduced to a future similar to the novel of 1984?

TLDR.: Yes.

Looking at the above article, the EU passing article 11 and 13 which basically allows them to censor whatever the heck they want that gets posted, and the concerted acts of the big social media platforms in recent weeks, I wonder how long it will take utill a regular joe has to make shady deals in dark places. Not for sex, drugs, or other illicit physical goods, but for code that gives access to the internet without the risk of getting caught for posting "wrongthink" content and "copyrighted" memes...
Those who really liked what they saw in Cyberpunk 2077, might get a taste of that distopian future sooner then they expect (lol?)

But ofc, both with net neutrality and with the EU link tax article, these fears might not ever really manifest in the real world, or at least not for long. Both have deep monetary implications, and if the money stops flowing, it might even take years, but they will probably change.

 

[Printimus]

TLDR.: Yes.

Looking at the above article, the EU passing article 11 and 13 which basically allows them to censor whatever the heck they want that gets posted, and the concerted acts of the big social media platforms in recent weeks, I wonder how long it will take utill a regular joe has to make shady deals in dark places. Not for sex, drugs, or other illicit physical goods, but for code that gives access to the internet without the risk of getting caught for posting "wrongthink" content and "copyrighted" memes...
Those who really liked what they saw in Cyberpunk 2077, might get a taste of that distopian future sooner then they expect (lol?)

But ofc, both with net neutrality and with the EU link tax article, these fears might not ever really manifest in the real world, or at least not for long. Both have deep monetary implications, and if the money stops flowing, it might even take years, but they will probably change.

Better start practicing my new think.