#ripinternet

tommorow im planning to call every representative from my country who opposes this horrible, pointless shit and atleast thank them. i unfortunately feel absolutely defeated and i think this 1.0 version of the law is gonna get passed. i hope through this horrible law people wake up, and we start genuinely protesting or something. cuz i saw nothing so far. i dont know if information about it is supressed or if most older people are ok with it because the internet is a "vile place" or something. i dont know. im sad. i love the idea of the internet. what it used to represent. but at this point im thinking of nuking every internet presence i ever had. and i just.

well anyways. ive been rewatching star trek again. i need some hope in my life and this is the one thing that can give me that.

So, who here likes the internet? All of you it seems. Well I'm sorry to say but guess what, the grinch is coming early to not only steal Christmas but also to murder the internet.

*enter dramatic music*

Now I know a lot of you are saying that this is the teririble and that this means that the government is selling out...

Which it is.

Now usually I'm not the one to get political and choose one side, being a moderate, but WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK IS WRONG WITH YOU AJIT PAI?! There are people who can't even afford to wash their cloths, Who use the internet on a daily basis, and you expect that they can just make money out of thin air. Guess what? He actually used to be a lawyer for Verizon.

The argument for the repeal of Net Neutrality is that the repeal will propmote a more free internet and promote the free market. Well that maybe true, but only for the jerkwads in the telecommunications industry. Orwellian logic is what he's trying to back it. Watch out or the thought police will bombard you with ads.

Now Net Neutrality hasn't always existed and we got along fine without it, but when the law was passed for Net Neutrality regulations that brought up the idea that the Telecommunications guys could have charged us extra to put us in fast lanes or banned sites that slander their name, not in the illegal but in the opinion way. Now that the idea that fast lanes and slow lanes can be created is out in the public, you can bet your bottom dollar that all of the big name internet service providers will charge you extra to get on YouTube. Well that's assuming that you still have a bottom dollar after the repeal.

Now the FCC has gone to shit but congress certainly wouldn't allow this right? Wrong, over 250 Senators and Reps from the House of Represntatives have sold their votes to Verizon or Comcast or AT&T or any other ISP.

So what are we going to do?

Buy the votes back? Move to Canada? Stop using internet if it has to come to that?

Sure, do those things, but all I see is a war already lost. Ajit Pai is trying to put a price on freedom of thought, information, speech, entertainment in the land of the free. Art will be censored, voices of change will be muffled, and information will come at a price whilst everything else may be straight up banned.