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derezzing:
Everyone is going on about the whole package deal thing with regards to net neutrality, and having to pay for packages of given sites
And while yes, this might happen, it’s such an absurd thing to put the majority of the focus on when the biggest, most nefarious use of net neutrality, which will 100% definitely be used, is media manipulation
Say your ISP is a company with particularly conservative views, and they’re strongly pro-life, for example. They could oh so easily cut off resources on abortions - information on how and where to get one, support groups, all the rest of it. Poof. Inaccessible.
They don’t want news about Trump making an utter fucking ass of himself out there? Well, time to throttle it!
God forbid, they’re horrifically homophobic? Kiss goodbye to your lovely LGBT+ online circles and resources. Your ISP doesn’t want the filthy gays influencing their customers.
Sure, you might have to pay a couple extra bucks for Tumblr or YouTube or whatever - but that’s not a definite and it’s such a weird thing to fixate on when net neutrality literally allows ISPs to dictate what you do and do not interact with on this internet. A world without net neutrality is dangerously, dangerously biased - a world where not all views are equal.
So please, please, please for the love of fucking god get out there, contact your reps, contact congress, contact whoever the fuck you even CAN because net neutrality is so, so, so much more than paying a little more for some online services; free speech in its purest, truest form is quite literally what we are playing for here, folks
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derezzing:
Everyone is going on about the whole package deal thing with regards to net neutrality, and having to pay for packages of given sites
And while yes, this might happen, it’s such an absurd thing to put the majority of the focus on when the biggest, most nefarious use of net neutrality, which will 100% definitely be used, is media manipulation
Say your ISP is a company with particularly conservative views, and they’re strongly pro-life, for example. They could oh so easily cut off resources on abortions - information on how and where to get one, support groups, all the rest of it. Poof. Inaccessible.
They don’t want news about Trump making an utter fucking ass of himself out there? Well, time to throttle it!
God forbid, they’re horrifically homophobic? Kiss goodbye to your lovely LGBT+ online circles and resources. Your ISP doesn’t want the filthy gays influencing their customers.
Sure, you might have to pay a couple extra bucks for Tumblr or YouTube or whatever - but that’s not a definite and it’s such a weird thing to fixate on when net neutrality literally allows ISPs to dictate what you do and do not interact with on this internet. A world without net neutrality is dangerously, dangerously biased - a world where not all views are equal.
So please, please, please for the love of fucking god get out there, contact your reps, contact congress, contact whoever the fuck you even CAN because net neutrality is so, so, so much more than paying a little more for some online services; free speech in its purest, truest form is quite literally what we are playing for here, folks
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