All 95 PCCC Net Neutrality Supporters Lost in the Election - Polidicks

[url]http://precursorblog.com/content/all-95-pccc-net-neutrality-supporters-lost-election[/url] [quote]Every single one of the 95 FreePress/PCCC House and Senate candidates that took the [url]www.NetNeutralityProtectors.com[/url] pledge: "I believe in protecting net neutrality -- the First Amendment of the Internet," lost in the mid-term elections Tuesday. * So the best available national proxy vote gauging political support for FreePress/PCCC's vision of net neutrality lost unanimously 95-0. As I blogged Friday in: "Tuesday's Net Neutrality's National Referendum" post FreePress/PCCC unwisely made net neutrality a measurable election issue by seeking public pledges from 95 House and Senate candidates before the election. This means FreePress can no longer legitimately claim their net neutrality movement has significant grass roots political support. This also means the FCC can see clearly that political support for net neutrality does not extend much beyond the email lists of the extreme left: FreePress, PCCC, and Moveon.org. Simply, FreePress's long and loud claim that net neutrality was an important political issue to the American people has been exposed as completely untrue. [/quote] This is the stuff conspiracy theories are made of. Whelp, abandon internet.

Fuck.

:tinfoil:

Fuck.

The goverment is run by a bunch of old bastards who don't understand the full potential of the internet...

Oh no.

Ladies and gentlemen of Facepunch, I propose we make an internet2. [editline]5th November 2010[/editline] And I nominate Garry to buy the servers.

Well as long as we Don't get COICA, It won't be too bad... Right?

[QUOTE=wingless;25868591]Well as long as we Don't get COICA, It won't be too bad... Right?[/QUOTE] We don't have a single net neutrality supporter in the Senate. All kinds of shit is going to get fucked up.

wow we are so unbelievably screwed holy shit

Fuck.

Shit

Game over.

Dang nabbit those kids and their www and Pac-Man sending all kinds of demonic things hogging our dial-up we need to censor it.

goddammit are they fucking retarded

Damnit, if only my stupid debit card worked online - I'd like to rush off a donation to the EFF...

Oh what the fuck. I better still be able to play Team Fortress 2.

Fuck, now they're going to block Facepunch... My life will be meaningless. brb, killing self.

[QUOTE=Rellow;25869664]Wait, what exactly is going to happen? People on the internet aren't going to know my real name are they? :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] From Wikipedia: "Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle proposed for user access networks participating in the Internet that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers and governments on content, sites, platforms, the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and the modes of communication allowed.[1][2][3] The principle states that if a given user pays for a certain level of Internet access, and another user pays for the same level of access, then the two users should be able to connect to each other at the subscribed level of access."

If the internet is killed another thing will take its place Telephone BBSs, Usenet, Internet forums - it's only a matter of time until a new standard steps in

[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;25869684]If the internet is killed another thing will take its place Telephone BBSs, Usenet, Internet forums - it's only a matter of time until a new standard steps in[/QUOTE] The Internet is the infrastructure, not the service.

THE BRITISH ARE COMING! THE BRITISH ARE COMING! :v: In other words, we are fucked if they try to control the internet.

I have a feeling nothing will come out of this, Because it will cause a massive amount of butthurt if they do. Like, LA riot type butthurt.

[QUOTE=HubmaN;25869712]The Internet is the infrastructure, not the service.[/QUOTE] I'd consider the change from bulletin boards to usenet to the world wide web both a change in infrastructure and service

Aw FUCK.

Only thing I hope for is they don't manage to fuck the internet up internationally...

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[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;25869770]I'd consider the change from bulletin boards to usenet to the world wide web both a change in infrastructure and service[/QUOTE] BBSes, Usenet and the World wide web run over the same copper wires. Going up one level Usenet and the world wide web share the Internet. We're far too invested in the internet + world wide web combo in any other case.

Watch the entire tech industry move to canada now rofl. If I were making a product like a webapp or something similar, I would market it to the best place possible. If these old bastards censor and control the internet like ISPs want, then the big boom in internet economy and innovation will move offshore too. Pretty sure once the jobs AND innovation is offshore, said offshore place gets the benefits.