Net Neutraility - Petition

[Sonikku]

lol, petition. Ted Cruz takes one look at a petition from 100,000 Americans crying for a break from the ISP's screwing them over with monopolies and takes one look from a single ISP's big sack of super pac money. Who do you think he's going to advocate for?

 

[Humpy]

I'm tired of net neutrality. It's like marijuana and gay marriage. People keep bringing it up from time to time, but it never gets solved one way or the other. "Steps" are taken all the time, but I've given up on anyone ever saying "Well, thank goodness that's settled. We can now proceed to never mention it again".

After 200+ years of 'Merican awesomeness the internet, marijuana, and gay stuff are the only three problems left to deal with. No need to hurry.

 

[ninaholic37]

@SlitheryDee: Aren't marijuana and gay marriage making progress? With your kind of thinking, women in 1st world countries would never be allowed to work outside of the home and slavery would still be a thing. D:

 

[Red Squirrel]

At this point I give up on trying to fight for the internet. Every couple months there seems to be something new that we need to fight. If it's not some SOPA like bill, it's something like net neutrality.

Let them ruin it. There will be a community of mesh net "hams" that will make a new internet eventually, and the corporations that will control the current internet can eventually be left alone to starve. The mesh style internet will be better and more resilient and not controlled by the government and megacorporations. There are already some people working on something like this, it's called hyperboria meshnet. it's still in very early stages and currently just rides on top of the existing internet but hopefully at some point it will be able to make money to fund it's own infrastructure like fibre. Some people are doing P2P wireless links but on it's own that would not be enough, but it's definitly a good start.

Been wanting to play with it myself actually, just have not had the chance yet.

If the internet really gets ruined bad enough by big government and big corporations, it will simply fuel these projects for a better alternative.

 

[lxskllr]

At this point I give up on trying to fight for the internet. Every couple months there seems to be something new that we need to fight. If it's not some SOPA like bill, it's something like net neutrality.

Let them ruin it. There will be a community of mesh net "hams" that will make a new internet eventually, and the corporations that will control the current internet can eventually be left alone to starve. The mesh style internet will be better and more resilient and not controlled by the government and megacorporations. There are already some people working on something like this, it's called hyperboria meshnet. it's still in very early stages and currently just rides on top of the existing internet but hopefully at some point it will be able to make money to fund it's own infrastructure like fibre. Some people are doing P2P wireless links but on it's own that would not be enough, but it's definitly a good start.

Been wanting to play with it myself actually, just have not had the chance yet.

If the internet really gets ruined bad enough by big government and big corporations, it will simply fuel these projects for a better alternative.

I2p runs over the existing infrastructure, but is completely distributed. It's a good way to run an anonymous service, or just play around with web tech on the cheap...

https://geti2p.net/en/

 

[poofyhairguy]

He probably just didn't find you an interesting person to talk to. People like to talk to hear their own voice, not to hear other people talk. Think about it, would you rather talk to someone who smiles and nods and listens to what you have to say, or someone who acts like a drama queen and tries to start a conflict?

Conflict.