The vote to restore Net Neutrality passed in the senate but didn’t have a prayer in the house where the telecoms are big donors. So, Net Neutrality officially ended yesterday even though 80% of the voting public supports it.
There are still motions being filed around the country but it will take months before they’re heard.
Meanwhile, predictions are that BEFORE THE ELECTION you won’t see much difference. Whatever changes the telecoms will make will be very subtle. After the election, if Republicans take the house again, expect the changes to be less subtle and your cable/Internet service to deteriorate unless you pay up. I mean more than you do now. Which is probably a lot more than you should.
Oh, and there’s nothing preventing the telecoms from cutting off access to the news you want, especially if it has a prayer of getting between them and your wallet.
For a refresher on what the repeal of Net Neutrality will mean to you, check out this nifty little scenario at your local Burger King.
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The Confluence 
That is a good video. I had never really delved into the net neutrality debate, but I always assumed that if the Republicans were against net neutrality, then it had to be another worthwhile thing that they wanted to destroy.The three linchpins of Republican philosophy are, 1) to create a system where having lots of money gives you all sorts of advantages over those who do not; 2); to to cut off access to knowledge and information for those who are not wealthy; and, 3) to allow corporations to find additional ways to exploit consumers Oh, and of course there is trying to keep people from voting, but that is only somewhat ancillary to this particular matter.
It’s about wanting to create a society much like Dickensian London, or the Gilded Age in America, or maybe even medieval Europe. Everything for them, nothing for us, except maybe eking out a daily life by doing everything they say. The old “I sold my soul to the company store” lament will be a way of life again.Like in the Middle Ages, people will be born and locked into their role and caste.No middle class, just an elite wealthy cadre, and a bunch of serfs who do not toil on the land, but in the tech realm. Their goal is to lock this in via voter suppression, voter purging, gerrymandering, so that we are a democracy in fantasy only. Pretty much a dystopian view of things; not completely inevitable just yet, but moving in that direction, and being cemented every day by outcomes like this.
Bleak but accurate, William.
I guess the McDucks and their minions and sycophants think militant Marxism just fell out of the sky one day, as if it were the Andromeda Strain–rather than realizing that the foolish greed of their predecessors created it, and will re-create it, or create something resembling it, again.
As a noted conservative writer said, “The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.” (Santayana)
Or maybe they do realize it, but simply figure, “I’ll be gone; you’ll be gone.”
Or they believe that THIS time, they have the tech, and the psycho-engineering savvy, to stop any revolutionary movement before it can get started.
Cuteness break:
[video src="https://i.imgur.com/ZYuj77s.mp4" /]
Huh? I’ll try that again:
[video src="https://i.imgur.com/ZYuj77s.mp4" /]
Is the problem that it’s mp4?
One last try:
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No Net Neutrality?
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