Save the Web! HURRY!!
I saw this clip of John Oliver’s show (wait… when did he get a show? The durn world is changing’ on me!) having to do the the FCC’s upcoming decision on Net Neutrality rules. At the end of his segment, John reminds folks that they had better commit some of the energy we use to Tweet what a bitch Justin Bieber is towards letting the FCC know what the public thinks during the open comment period. I agree!
If you want the Internet to keep functioning the way it is, democratically, instead of being transformed into a corporate asset the way radio and television have become, make your voice heard! Because you better believe that the first thing we’ll lose when the telecoms make the rules is any easy way to challenge them.
(My own manifesto, submitted to the FCC, goes like this:)
The Internet has proven to be the most important democratizing force of the new century. It has bulldozed barriers to communication, commerce and creativity, and created a real and needed challenge to the ability of a moneyed few to control the American political discourse.
Net Neutrality is undeniably needed to prevent the pirating of this new commons, the Internet, which must be maintained in the manner that best serves the People, and not treated as a commodity unto itself for the benefit of an aggressive and undemocratic class of elites.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbOEoRrHyU[/youtube]
Thanks, good to know! It gets privatized and end up up like the record companies (though the main browsers are way too commercial already).
It is possible to rapidly down load pictures away from your camera in your apple ipad without having a couple of minutes.
This selective attention filter makes you aware of daily things that
can help you achieve your goal and it’s your job to
take action on those opportunities when they present themselves.
The teacher assumes the role of the host, and will guide the students through the game by asking them to pick a case and try
to answer the question that it reveals.
Translation: If you spend more for a top of the line computer and pay for a T1 connection, they want to make sure that it doesn’t download any faster than an Apple II on Dialup.
As an actual IT worker, here is my opinion on the whole Net Neutrality thing:
Yeah, that’ll work…NOT.