If it goes through, it may well trigger some negative impacts for those in power, that they insisted on these stupid things that triggered the negatives well and truly deserve the fate they have sown. If the populace does not fight this, and allows it to happen w/o repercussions to these ass-hats, then the people deserve the tyranny they let take over.

The fact that the People have spoken and said leave our Net Neutrality alone yet they used fraud to have comments favoring this plan by the FCC head, well, the Constitution has an article stating that if the gov't(Little g on purpose), refuses to represent We the People, they can be removed, and by force if necessary. I would prefer a more peaceful method, but the fucktards in charge have shown that peaceful means will not budge them sadly.

I may not use violence, but neither am I inclined to help those who are of the political and wealthy class if a mob devours them in righteous anger tat their attempts at tyranny over the populace that has had enough of the BS they have inflicted on us, BUT I do not see that such will occur as the American populace will roll over as always and let them fuck them yet again.

I am finding myself worn out by the news of how we are seeing our nation become more a joke and meme in the world, and true live Idiocracy.

the first casualty will be places like this. If you know about it, it'll be slow. If you don't know about it, well why upset the status quo.

It will be too easy to keep "the poors" off the internet.
This is a perfect class warfare weapon.

It's possible that if they kill net neutrality they will ultimately be killing Verizon, ATT and Comcast.

So, the egalatarian Internet has to go — jettisoned into the free-market to be regulated by the Wolves of Wallstreet. The US government will privatize the People's utility of self-generated content and hand it over to the media monopolies to extract the highest profits they can from those who can afford subscriptions. At the same time, they will suppress any news, information, or subversive discussions that are deemed troublesome to the State or bad for business. In this way, American Corporations are exercising their Right to exploit the nation's natural resources and to mine the People's bounty of human-generated knowledge — the Internet — for their exclusive private profits. But the United States can stand tall, because unlike other dictatorships, the US does not impose unconstitutional censorship upon the People. No. Our Corporate Overlords will do that for them, thus maintaining the illusion of a free society.

More important, this seizure/capture is a Human Rights violation and a theft of our generational inheritance of civilization from all those who came before us. The Internet is a treasury created by a voluntary gathering of millions of human minds. It is public utility build on a concentrated platform of human experience, knowledge, social development, and social progress. It is every generation's right to access and interact with this pool of knowledge and to communicate with fellow humans in an online environment that is completely free of government censorship and free from corporate wealth extraction and predatory capitalism. We are merely the shepherds of this treasure of collected knowledge and human experience, and it must be passed on to the next generation, unencumbered. This is the covenant under which all civilizations are built and occupied by the generations that follow. Civilizations do not belong to some temporary government. They were not built to be given away to aggressive corporations to exploit and corrupt, as they do; or to pollute and destroy. The civilization of the Internet belongs to humanity. It is their inheritance, and not the inheritance of a few greedy self-serving bureaucrats.

I'd say acting 'inhuman', myself - inhumanely so...

But the monopolistic US internet providers had already started ripping off customers some time back, as I expect that we all know, although there's never enough to satisfy the pathologically greedy, is there?

I came across this site tonight in my slooooow search for anything that might bring some enlightenment regarding my sucky connection and this article from several years ago, although containing no surprises, happened to be on one of many related links on a page regarding internet connection/bandwidth issues.

Does everyone remember this?

https://www.komando.com/happening-now/251763/net-neutrality-5-isps-are-a...

May 6, 2014

Net Neutrality: 5 ISPs are holding Web speed hostage

By Komando Staff, Komando.com

...These allegations come from Level 3, one of the largest providers of long-distance Internet connectivity in the world. Level 3 is saying that companies putting the squeeze on their consumers' bandwidth are "large Broadband consumer networks with a dominant or exclusive market share in their local market."

That's a pretty serious allegation. But there's more:

"Level 3 says its links to these customers suffer from "congestion that is permanent, has been in place for well over a year and where our peer refuses to augment capacity. They are deliberately harming the service they deliver to their paying customers. They are not allowing us to fulfill the requests their customers make for content."

"The basic problem is those six [international] broadband providers want Level 3 to pay them to deliver traffic. Level 3 believes that's unreasonable. After all, the ISPs' own customers have already paid these ISPs to deliver the traffic to them. And the long-standing norm on the internet is that endpoint ISPs pay intermediaries, not the other way around. Level 3 notes that "in countries or markets where consumers have multiple broadband choices (like the UK) there are no congested peers." In short, broadband providers that face serious competition don't engage in this kind of brinksmanship." ...

Now the blatant industrial criminality which the corporate politicians/parties permitted is being 'legalized' as with government propagandizing and censorship of its own citizens and everything else, including the reckless endangerment-for-profit of Non-Billionaire-Americans at work, at meals and product usage as protective regulations if all kinds are being stripped...

Who needs gas chambers to reduce the excess population? You just have to believe them when they tell you they can write whatever law they like to suit themselves, even when it sickens/injures/kills you, because 'Simon Says' So.

Still wondering what the very lengthy, huge-but-distant-sounding rumbling I recently heard outside was; hope it wasn't Russia being nuked, but I suppose the world would have burst into flames by now, if so... maybe one hell of a plane? Never heard anything like it before, at any rate.