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The loss of "Net Nutrality" may kill off furry!
12 years ago
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/15/tech/.....ned/index.html
http://bgr.com/2014/01/14/net-neutr.....-court-ruling/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/.....n_4597831.html
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/14/tec.....ity/index.html
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/20.....et-neutrality/
I've said it before and no one seems to notice. Well, because of inactivity, it finally happened. Big telecom companies in the USA can now completely block access to any websites they want to. Can now kill start-ups before they ever get a chance to get big by throttling or outright blocking access to anyone that doesn't "Pay to Play," so to speak.
Make an app or service to "compete" with someone else, or the company hosting you? Bye bye, enjoy the darkness. Have a website with something someone thinks is morally questionable to them like, oh, anthropomorphic animals playing "hide the boner?" Bye bye, enjoy the no boner hiding.
It is not as easy as just "getting a different provider" as most of the big telecom companies all have local monopolies and strangleholds all over the USA making it hard, if not impossible, to switch to a "competitor." People will not leave in droves because THEY CANNOT! Do you really want to go from 50mbps FIOS or AT&T or fiber optic to 1.5mbps and slower limited sat or dsl with some spotty company?
You may think it is hard to run a website now, wait till the "access fees" and "speed fees" start showing up.
I recommend you not get any sort of "contract" service without editing that contract to say you want a fully "Uncensored" internet.
AMERICA... Where taking a giant step BACKWARDS is good as long as profit is involved... Big business motto: "Fuck the first amendment and all the rest, except for the ones that make us money of course!"
Spread this like wildfire before it is too late.
http://bgr.com/2014/01/14/net-neutr.....-court-ruling/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/.....n_4597831.html
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/14/tec.....ity/index.html
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/20.....et-neutrality/
I've said it before and no one seems to notice. Well, because of inactivity, it finally happened. Big telecom companies in the USA can now completely block access to any websites they want to. Can now kill start-ups before they ever get a chance to get big by throttling or outright blocking access to anyone that doesn't "Pay to Play," so to speak.
Make an app or service to "compete" with someone else, or the company hosting you? Bye bye, enjoy the darkness. Have a website with something someone thinks is morally questionable to them like, oh, anthropomorphic animals playing "hide the boner?" Bye bye, enjoy the no boner hiding.
It is not as easy as just "getting a different provider" as most of the big telecom companies all have local monopolies and strangleholds all over the USA making it hard, if not impossible, to switch to a "competitor." People will not leave in droves because THEY CANNOT! Do you really want to go from 50mbps FIOS or AT&T or fiber optic to 1.5mbps and slower limited sat or dsl with some spotty company?
You may think it is hard to run a website now, wait till the "access fees" and "speed fees" start showing up.
I recommend you not get any sort of "contract" service without editing that contract to say you want a fully "Uncensored" internet.
AMERICA... Where taking a giant step BACKWARDS is good as long as profit is involved... Big business motto: "Fuck the first amendment and all the rest, except for the ones that make us money of course!"
Spread this like wildfire before it is too late.
Most politicians score under a high school sophomore in core skills and knowledge. And these are the people running America, cuz their daddy was a senator, and such.
What you said is exactly what they, the govt and the telecom companies, wanted. More monopolies, more control, higher fees, less competition.
USA's motto is always "Money money money". This is actually what I understood.
By killing of competitors by blocking the sites or even destroying new trends or even current by blocking as many sites as possible about this topic is just undemocratic.
The Internet is seen as a big room which is neutral toward nearly anything, because it IS so big(with a lot of opinions, etc.).
If you give the public only access to a specific part of it, you are forming the experience of them into a specific way. (Very likely how the Gouvernment wants the people to think)
For example: If there are two sites, a furry site (like FA) and one against furries (with lies, etc.) it'll change the people's mind a lot if the furry sites are blocked and if there is only bad stuff about us. In the end, Furries get discriminated massively and conventions might get illegal.
Afterall: This all is not very good for democracy and I believe that shit will catch fire if it continues like this...
And as for the internet, it feels like the only source where you really can find truth and other ways.
In a modern society variety is crucial. We are all individuals but if the Gouvernment or big Companies are capable of destroying this variety, it's literally against democracy and can provoke anything inside a country.
What I want to know is, "Why?" Why do they, the big companies and government, want so badly to control the people? To make it easier for them to do their jobs because conflict means more work, or is there something more sinister going on under the surface?