I really wish this was a sensationalist headline, I can't believe people are this stupid
[QUOTE]Opponents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s new net neutrality rules aren’t giving up, with a conservative advocacy group saying it has collected more than 540,000 signatures on a petition asking Congress to overturn the agency’s action.
American Commitment, a group with connections to Republican billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, delivered those petitions to Congress this week. Each petition went to the three members of Congress, one representative and two senators, representing the person signing the letter, American Commitment said.
“The landslide 2014 elections made crystal clear that the American people reject larger, more intrusive government,” the Web form leading to the letters says in part. “But President [Barack] Obama reacted by moving even further left, ignoring the fact the Federal Communications Commission is supposed to be an independent agency, and openly demanding the FCC take the most radical action imaginable: reducing the Internet to a ‘public utility,’ imposing sweeping new taxes and destroying private investment, competition, and innovation while putting bureaucrats firmly in control.”[/QUOTE]
Fuck this bullshit.
There needs to be some well funded PSA campaign about net neutrality, right fucking now
source:
[url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/2904632/thousands-call-on-congress-to-overturn-net-neutrality-rules.html[/url]
sorry mods, forgot to put it in the op and it wont let me edit it, please dont ban
Link?
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Also, Holy crap how stupid can people be?
these assholes need to fuck off. They probably dont even know what net neutrality is, and the only thing they have heard about it is the brainwashing anti net-neutrality shit the cable companies broadcast on TV
54,000 signatures... That's not a whole heck of a lot. Something like 1/6000th of our country.
A positive sample size of 1/6000 is negligible, at best. That's just under .2% of the total population. In a statistical study, that'd be considered worthless.
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That is only 0.18% of the entire US population.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47433932]That is only 0.18% of the entire US population.[/QUOTE]
Knew I missed a decimal point somewhere.
the problem with this is that this number will grow. never underestimate the power of stupidity and uninformed voters. I am just hoping companies like google and netflix step in to create a PSA or something to educate the general public.
[QUOTE=da space core;47434012]the problem with this is that this number will grow. never underestimate the power of stupidity and uninformed voters. I am just hoping companies like google and netflix step in to create a PSA or something to educate the general public.[/QUOTE]
There's still a significant number on the other side.
[QUOTE=woolio1;47433929]54,000 signatures... That's not a whole heck of a lot. Something like 1/6000th of our country.
A positive sample size of 1/6000 is negligible, at best. That's just under .2% of the total population. In a statistical study, that'd be considered worthless.
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you missed another zero on 540,000
[QUOTE=woolio1;47433929]54,000 signatures... That's not a whole heck of a lot. Something like 1/6000th of our country.
A positive sample size of 1/6000 is negligible, at best. That's just under .2% of the total population. In a statistical study, that'd be considered worthless.
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Sample sizes of 54000 would be pretty awesome actually
Its the selection process that is wrong
[QUOTE=Trumple;47434053]you missed another zero on 540,000[/QUOTE]
its about ~1-2% of our population
but i cant get how petitions count for anything these days when a lot of them can be done anonymously
Honestly I'm not surprised.
There are thousands of folks who aren't savy to how modern tech and how the internet truly works.
So I'm not shocked that people would not understand what Net Neutrality is and if it's good or not.
It's actually pretty alarming how little people understand about net neutrality and the internet in general. We actually had an English assignment a week or so ago where our class was presented the John Oliver video about net neutrality and then asked to weigh in on the debate. Virtually everybody in the class had zero clue what net neutrality was about, even after watching a video [I]summarizing the entire issue.[/I] It's honestly a bit shocking it hasn't taken longer for lobbyists to push this sort of thing through congress, given how unknowing most people are. They could run PSA's claiming that the bill to end net neutrality was actually saving the internet from low speeds and the public would probably be all for it.
[QUOTE=da space core;47433862]I really wish this was a sensationalist headline, I can't believe people are this stupid[/QUOTE]
" and openly demanding the FCC take the most radical action imaginable: reducing the Internet to a ‘public utility,’ imposing sweeping new taxes and destroying private investment, competition, and innovation while putting bureaucrats firmly in control.”"
wow thanks for giving us a good argument FOR NET NEUTRALITY
it should be a public utility
This reminds me of that video where people were signing a petition to ban water, just goes to show how fucking stupid and easy to manipulate people are.
[QUOTE=Eeshton;47434083]its about ~1-2% of our population
but i cant get how petitions count for anything these days when a lot of them can be done anonymously[/QUOTE]
They didn't really count for anything before the internet either, truth be told. Paper ones just got binned, digital ones never even make it to the intended eyeballs.
i wish all of the cable companies in our country burnt to the ground with their boardmembers locked inside
[QUOTE=srobins;47434180]It's actually pretty alarming how little people understand about net neutrality and the internet in general. We actually had an English assignment a week or so ago where our class was presented the John Oliver video about net neutrality and then asked to weigh in on the debate. Virtually everybody in the class had zero clue what net neutrality was about, even after watching a video [I]summarizing the entire issue.[/I] It's honestly a bit shocking it hasn't taken longer for lobbyists to push this sort of thing through congress, given how unknowing most people are. They could run PSA's claiming that the bill to end net neutrality was actually saving the internet from low speeds and the public would probably be all for it.[/QUOTE]
World is full of stupid people like this. People who don't care and are too busy living inside their little bubbles, who have a pitiful attention span, people who are just out of touch with the times and don't know what the fuck is going on.
Can't hope to educate them all, have to find a way to manipulate them and convince them to join your side and follow you instead.
Figure out how to use them. Use them for good purposes. The Kochs and cunts of the world like them know how to use them for shitty purposes like this.
I saw a post on Facebook today saying "The government wants to take over the internet when it can't even host a website?"
Having any law about anything seems to be a fascist takeover in a lot of people's minds.
[QUOTE=Eeshton;47434083]its about ~1-2% of our population
but i cant get how petitions count for anything these days when a lot of them can be done anonymously[/QUOTE]
There are 318,000,000 in the US, there were 540,000 in the petition.
That is far less that 1%.
I'd like to see google do something like when SOPA was being tossed around. Have a PSA campaign to inform people about net neutrality everytime they use google (thats a metric shitton of people right there.)
The only reason to go back on the decision the FCC made is to redo it and actually take a step forward with it, as opposed to a slight stumble forward.
[QUOTE=Trumple;47434053]you missed another zero on 540,000[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I can't math. Sorry.
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[QUOTE=deadoon;47434239]There are 318,000,000 in the US, there were 540,000 in the petition.
That is far less that 1%.[/QUOTE]
Just ran the numbers. It's 0.0016981132, or .16%.
Less than 2/1000.
It's a pity how easy people can be brainwashed and manipulated. :/
[QUOTE=da space core;47434012]the problem with this is that this number will grow. never underestimate the power of stupidity and uninformed voters. I am just hoping companies like google and netflix step in to create a PSA or something to educate the general public.[/QUOTE]
The problem is, the best way you're going to reach the uneducated is through television or ads, which the cable companies wouldn't allow of course, and Facebook posts will either be ignored by these people, and there's a chance that all of the above would be simply labeled as liberal propaganda. Too many people are convinced that it's government control of the internet or "the Obamacare of the internet" and the poison will only spread unless more people are educated about net neutrality and what it REALLY means.
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[QUOTE=ultra_bright;47434207]This reminds me of that video where people were signing a petition to ban water, just goes to show how fucking stupid and easy to manipulate people are.[/QUOTE]
The internet brought us into the Information Age. I fear that popular public soap-boxes like Facebook and Tumblr (where anyone can say whatever stupid bullshit they want and have at least a FEW people believe them) are leading us into the Mis-Information Age.
Thousands are fucking stupid.
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