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WHEN I STARTED MY BLOG IN 2015 I WANTED TO CALL IT NOVA EXPRESS FIRST. I DID A LOT OF PERSONAL WRITING THEN AND WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS IS A MAIN INFLUENCE TO ME. NAKED LUNCH IS STILL MY FAVORITE, BUT NOVA EXPRESS SOUNDED BETTER AS A NAME FOR A BLOG. ;-) TUMBLR SAID THAT THIS NAME WAS ALREADY TAKEN AND SUGGESTED TO ADD A NUMBER TO THE NAME. THERE WAS ONLY ONE NUMBER I COULD THINK OF, 93. A LOT OF YOU MAY HAVE GUESSED IT’S MEANING, A REFERENCE TO ALEISTER CROWLEY’S CREDO “DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW, LOVE UNDER WILL.” OKAY FOR THE SECOND PART I WOULD NEEDED TO ADD A SECOND 93 AND FOR A THELEMA REFERENCE A THIRD ONE. BUT WHAT KINDA NAME FOR AN URL WOULD BE Novaexpress939393. I’M NOT A MEMBER OF THELEMA EITHER, BUT DIG CROWLEY A LOT, SO I STOOD BY THE SHORT VERSION, WITH A SINGLE 93.    DO WHAT YOU WANT. SO DID I. FIRST I WAS VERY UNSURE ABOUT WHAT I WANTED TO PRESENT ON MY BLOG AND I HAD NO MATERIAL FOR IT. I STARTED TO EXPLORE AND EXPERIMENTED A LOT. ABOUT ONE AND A HALF YEARS LATER I FINALLY WAS SATISFIED WITH THE THINGS I CREATED FOR TUMBLR. I WAS AN LATE ENTRY OF THIS COMMUNITY AND IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO BE RECOGNIZED HERE. TODAY I HAVE A SOLID NUMBER OF FOLLOWERS, BECAME NOT FAMOUS BUT A FAN FAVORITE, A SO-CALLED POPULAR ONE. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.    BACK TO THE ROOTS, MY FIRST THOUGHT, DO WHAT YOU WANT. I ALWAYS DID IT. THINGS CHANGED SO DID POLITICS. NET NEUTRALITY IS GONE, THE PEOPLE OF VERIZON, NOW IN CHARGE OF TUMBLR, DID NOT CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER EITHER. VERIZON IS IN FACT A DRIVING FORCE IN THE GOP:S CRUSADE AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE INTERNET. IT USED TO BE A LOT OF FUN ON TUMBLR, BUT IT IS NOT ANYMORE. I STARTED TO SEARCH FOR AN ALTERNATIVE EARLY THIS SUMMER. THANKS TO @lydiaplain I FOUND IT ON ELLO.   A SHORT TIME AGO I STOPPED POSTING NEW ART AND REBLOGGED  OLDER STUFF INSTEAD. I NEVER DID THIS BEFORE, BECAUSE I’M ALWAYS MOVING FOREWARD. NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES. PAST TIMES ARE GONE, THERE’S ONLY HERE AND NOW. I DID THE WHOLE REBLOGGING THING JUST TO KEEP THE BLOG GOING. ON THE OTHER HAND I DON’T WANT TO GIVE VERIZON ANY NEW PIECES OF MY SOUL. (FOR EVERYTHING WE POST HERE ON TUMBLR, WE LOSE OUR COPYRIGHT. BUT WE KEEP IT ON FLICKR, WHICH IS ALSO OWNED BY VERIZON. THAT’S THE REASON I WILL CONTINUE TO POST MY OWN WORK THERE. AT LEAST FOR NOW) THIS IS A VERY FRUSTRATING SITUTATION, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU ALL ARE HERE FOR MY ART, THAT YOU LOVE IT AND IT HELPS YOU ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. YOUR KIND COMMENTARIES AND MUTUAL CHAT TOLD ME SO. I LOVE YOU GUYS, NOT ONLY FOR THAT. I LOVE YOU FOR YOUR KINDNESS AND CREATIVE WORK, I DON’T WANT TO LOSE ANYBODY OF YOU. BUT I’M FEELING TOTALLY UNCONFORTABLE TO CONTINUE WITH THIS REBLOG THING AND THE CURRENT SITUATION.    TO SHORTEN, THINGS THAT MAY BE ARE ALREADY TOO LONG, Nova EXPRESS 93 IS FINISHED. I MOVED OVER TO http://www.ello.co/novaexpress93 SOME TIME AGO.  

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That’s what is going to happen if we let Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman, go through with repealing Title II (AKA Net Neutrality).

Simply put, without Net Neutrality, Internet Service Providers like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T will be able to “bundle” websites much like cable ON TOP OF paying for internet connection. “Want access to Netflix AND Tumblr? Get the Entertainment Package! $40 a month. What about Amazon and Ebay? Add an extra $20 a month to get the Shopping Package.”

Not only will they be able to bundle websites and charge more, they will also be able to censor and block websites that they don’t agree with entirely.

THIS WILL BE THE END OF INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT.

For business owners, it will be even worse. Ex: Comcast will ask Amazon to pay high fees to be available in a low-cost package, fees that websites like Poshmark or Etsy will not be able to pay. Therefore, only Fortune 500’s will be available to web users at a low cost. Say goodbye to Etsy (unless you’re willing to shell out $70 a month for the “All-Inclusive” package).

To learn about Net Neutrality, why it’s important, and/or want tools to help you fight for Net Neutrality, visit BattleForTheNet (https://www.battleforthenet.com)

There are five people deciding the future of the internet, three men (Rep) and two women (Dem). The two women have come out as No votes. We need only to convince ONE of the other members to flip to a NO vote to save Net Neutrality.

There are many ways you can help:

WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE A LAZY TUMBLR USER WITH ANXIETY WHO TRIES TO HELP WITH JUST REBLOGS / LIKES:

Here are 2 petitions to sign, one international and one exclusively US.

International: https://www.savetheinternet.com/sti-home

US: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-not-repeal-net-neutrality

(After you sign make sure to verify via email, it may take up to 30 mins to receive the email).

Text “resist” to 504-09. It’s a bot that will send a formal email, fax, and letter to your representatives. It also finds your representatives for you. All you have to do is text it and it holds your hand the whole way.

HERE ARE MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE:

These are the emails of the 5 people on the FCC roster.

Blow up their inboxes!

Ajit Pai - [email protected]

Mignon Clyburn - [email protected]

Michael O'Rielly - Mike.O'[email protected]

Brendan Carr - [email protected]

Jessica Rosenworcel - [email protected]

You can support groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU and Free Press who are fighting to keep Net Neutrality:

• https://www.eff.org/

• https://www.aclu.org/

• https://www.freepress.net/

• https://www.fightforthefuture.org/

• https://www.publicknowledge.org/

• https://www.demandprogress.org/

Set them as your charity on Amazon Smile here (https://smile.amazon.com/)

Write to your House Representative here

(http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/)

And Senators here: https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state)

Write to the FCC here (https://www.fcc.gov/about/contact)

Add a comment to the repeal here (https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/filings?proceedings_name=17-108&sort=date_disseminated,DESC)

Here’s an easier URL you can use thanks to John Oliver (http://www.gofccyourself.com)

Also check this out, which was made by the EFF and is a low transaction cost tool for writing all your reps in one fell swoop.

(https://democracy.io/#!/)

For instance, we are not all suddenly shouting that the sky is falling because the FCC has PASSED the bill abolishing Net Neutrality and the changes are to be put in place some time this month. As claimed by one post I just saw with over 5,000 notes already. This is simply, unequivocally NOT true, and it can actually get in the way of the call to action that very post made, asking people to call and email their congressmen, because a lot of people who see that might think “what’s the point, if its already passed?”

It hasn’t. Chairman Ajit Pai of the FCC unveiled in April his proposed plan to strike back the Net Neutrality regulations Obama’s administration passed in 2015, and which have since 2015 been upheld by the courts in the face of Republican opposition’s attempts to claim they overreached. What has people shouting the sky is falling NOW is because yesterday (November 21st) is when the date of the official vote on this proposed plan was announced. That date is December 14th.

Which means there IS still time to affect the outcome of the vote. People are pessimistic about the chances of this vote because the FCC board is held by a Republican majority at the moment, but make the passing of this bill seem toxic enough to other Republican interests and there is still a chance to keep it from passing. 

Which is still a hell of a lot better than assuming the bill has already passed and that there’s really no point.

We have until December 14th to kick up enough of a fuss that the Republicans on the FCC board think twice about voting for this bill. And even after that, there are still legal recourses. The courts have refused to uphold other bills Trump’s administration has attempted to pass as overreaching, unconstitutional, and/or in opposition of the true will of the people - just as the Republicans attempted to do back in 2015 when the FCC under Obama passed the Net Neutrality laws in the first place.