The FCC Chairman is going ahead with his plan to repeal net neutrality despite objections from fellow commissioners, the CTO, more than a hundred members of Congress, senators and of course, the people.

What the fuck is wrong with this guy? How far up your own fucking ass does your head have to be to ignore basically everyone's vote against you? What the fuck. This guy is a really piece of fucking work. I hope this bounces back to bite him in the ass real hard.

Well I'm on the other side of the country —_(*_*)_—.

* Let the internet be free *.

Looks like democracy is not as great in the US as they want it to be in the middle east after all.

I'm not bitter about what happed today, I just hope that Pai, O'Riely, and Carr all trip over land mines.

The internet was fine before net neutrality was in place

@aggaman47 yeah....no.

2005 – North Carolina ISP Madison River Communications blocked VoIP service Vonage.

2005 – Comcast blocked or severely delayed traffic using the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. (The company even had the guts to deny this for months until evidence was presented by the Associated Press.)

2007 – AT&T censored Pearl Jam because lead singer criticized President Bush.

2007 to 2009 – AT&T forced Apple to block Skype because it didn’t like the competition. At the time, the carrier had exclusive rights to sell the iPhone and even then the net neutrality advocates were pushing the government to protect online consumers, over 5 years before these rules were actually passed.

2009 – Google Voice app faced similar issues from ISPs, including AT&T on iPhone.

2010 – Windstream Communications, a DSL provider, started hijacking search results made using Google toolbar. It consistently redirected users to Windstream’s own search engine and results.

2011 – MetroPCS, one of the top-five wireless carriers at the time, announced plans to block streaming services over its 4G network from everyone except YouTube.

2011 to 2013 – AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon blocked Google Wallet in favor of Isis, a mobile payment system in which all three had shares. Verizon even asked Google to not include its payment app in its Nexus devices.

@aggaman47

2012 – AT&T blocked FaceTime; again because the company didn’t like the competition.

2012 – Verizon started blocking people from using tethering apps on their phones that enabled consumers to avoid the company’s $20 tethering fee.

2014 – AT&T announced a new “sponsored data” scheme, offering content creators a way to buy their way around the data caps that AT&T imposes on its subscribers.

2014 – Netflix started paying Verizon and Comcast to “improve streaming service for consumers.”

2014 – T-Mobile was accused of using data caps to manipulate online competition.

(https://wccftech.com/net-neutrality...)

@wizzzard it's the principle of it all. If everyone votes against you, and the decision is fucking stupid anyways, why be a dick hat and say "sucks to be you guys, I'm the boss and what I say goes"-- the answer is because you're a dick. That's why. And since he's a dick, whether the decision changes the world or not, I'm gunna be pissed... Cuz he's a conceited, self righteous, pompous ass who doesn't listen to anyone but himself.

And if it's really not going to change anything then why make the decision in the first place? Clearly shit is gunna change and the fact of the matter is that people don't like change. And it will change to bennifits him. And in doing so, it will probably do the opposite for the people.

If so many people are against him, and nothing was going to change and the world would stay the same if he chose to repeal net neutrality, then why would he bother making millions of people loathe and despise him by going through with it? Logically if nothing was going to change and everything would stay the same and be fine and dandy and perfect no matter what he did, wouldn't he just be like "wow, people really fucking hate this and since it's a waste of my effort and popularity due to the fact that it won't change anything, I guess I'll just do what the people want."

@Rascaldees this is the second time today i am hearing capitalism on this issue.. how is this capitalism ? Internet is currently not free, we pay for it and we pay for the services or some of the streams we use over internet.

Increasing the cost based on monitored activity is stealing unless they are willing to instantly upgrade the infrastructure prior to charging more.. whats coming is stealing from the helpless at least IMO

@Rascaldees A true capitalist market benefits only the corporations. No one else.

Also, just because someone did something in a certain way nearly 250 years ago doesn't make it an ideal model to follow.

@Rascaldees Yes. Throw out all the things. That is exactly what everyone is suggesting. In your head only.

@Rascaldees If you say so, it must be true.

@Rascaldees Capitalist Utopia is just that. An Utopia. Unregulated corporations will fuck people over for profit, again and again. In many cases a boycott is near impossible because a corporation has de-facto monopoly in a geographical area. Hard voting with your wallet when you only have one real option, with the other option being to forgo the product/service in question completely. Example being internet access in rural areas where only one company offers the service.

@Rascaldees even freedom of speech comes with rules. capitalism with no rules will be like the housing crash in 2008 which is why whats in place is way better than whats coming..
it would be like the epipen guy who had a 750% profit margin which is what can happen pretty soon

@Rascaldees Please do explain how using the second amendment as some sort of "safety net" against greedy corporations is going to work...

@Rascaldees Yeah that's never going to happen, even if it was a good response to capitalism (which it is not).