If Net Neutrality dies imagine what life would be like, we escape real life to be online, to chat with friends, to play games, to watch Youtube, movies, tv shows, we spend hours on Tumblr, facebook, Instagram, we read fanfics, look up things for homework, work, see how to do something, watch tutorials, watch porn, drool over your fandom, look for references to draw something you don’t know how to draw.
And one day it’s taken away and you have to pay for it every month just to use that site. Imagine how that would feel, if your a student, an art student, music student, engineer student, tech student. And you need to look something up for class but your too broke to pay for the web site because all your money went to getting your college text books, or food.
Or even if your not a student, and your living from pay check to pay check, and you have to figure out what sites you can afford that month, maybe you watch everything online, and you miss out what was going on with your favorite show and when your finally able save up enough money to catch up, you find that the show is canceled because the views went down.
Everyone escapes online because they have friends they met on Tumblr, Instagram, LGBTQ+ online communities, AO3, or even message boards. And with that gone, we lose our connections to our friends, loved ones, and even long distance relationships we have made over the years.
Please don’t let Net Neutrality die. It’s up to all of us to save it!
Call, email, write a letter, we need Net Neutrality!
The 2 no votes:
Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov
Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov
The 2 yes votes:
Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Mike.O’Rielly@fcc.gov
The Chairman:
Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
You can also text “RESIST” to 50409, which is a bot that will help you fax a letter to your senators.
I would normally post this kind of thing on my other blog, but this is important and people need to see it.
Net neutrality must be saved. I’ve seen a thousand reasons why, but not this one.
My cousin was diagnosed with a type of terminal cancer at age 4. He was given about 2 years to live. However there was a treatment that could give him more than double that time. We live in the UK but the treatment was not on the NHS so we had to raise money. That is no way to we could have gotten enough money to pay for the treatment without GoFundMe , face book and Twitter to spread the news and manage donations.
America hasn’t got free healthcare so I can only imagine how many more of these stories there must be and just think about how many people could die. And how many people will have to deal with the loss of a loved one, on top of all the other problems net neutrality has to offer.
Incase you were wondering, he didn’t make it to his 6th birthday.
In case anyone argues that abuses won’t happen, remind them: They already have.
One example:
2007 – AT&T censored Pearl Jam because lead singer criticized President Bush.
This is shamefully and dangerously tyrannical.
The article concludes:
In the absence of the current net neutrality rules, internet providers
routinely used their powers to violate open internet principles,
manipulate competition and even engage in censorship
Also, while we’re on the subject of broadband providers: Why on earth do we let them offer us service based on a “maximum speed” instead of a “minimum speed”? That’s like buying a car and the salesman says, “I guarantee this car won’t go over 75mph. I can’t guarantee that it’ll go faster than 20mph, but I promise, it definitely won’t ever get to 75mph!”
On
Thanksgiving, between 700 and 1,200 people will gather in Plymouth,
Massachusetts, for a “National Day of Mourning” to educate people about
the vicious history of the treatment of Native Americans and the issues
affecting them today. This year is dedicated to water protectors at
Standing Rock and to the struggle for recognition of Indigenous Peoples’
Day.
“There’s
nothing wrong with having a meal with friends and family, and I would
say especially for many of us where our families have survived genocide,
it’s so important for us to be able to sit down with each other and be
grateful that we have food and to enjoy spending time with each other,”
said Mahtowin Munro, a co-leader of United American Indians of New
England, the group that organizes the event, who has attended every year
since the 1980s.
“The
real underlying issue is the mythology… there’s a view that the Natives and the
Pilgrims lived happily ever after and the Native people just evaporated
into the woods or something to make way for the Pilgrims and all of the
other aspects of the European invasion,” she continued. “All around the
country, schools continue to dress up their children in little Pilgrim
and Indian costumes and the Indians welcome the Pilgrims and they all
sit down together and everybody says ‘Isn’t that cute, that’s so nice.’
That’s not at all what happened.”
Settler colonialism is the social, political and economic system that
Europeans brought with them to this continent that turns land into
profit, dispossessing Native peoples from the land through forced
removals, military massacres, genocide, sterilization and forced
assimilation (among other tactics). Indigenous people have long
recognized that this is an ongoing process, not one discretely contained
within a historical period.
Settler colonialism requires an ongoing violence against Native American
people. Many narratives obscure this fact, however, by speaking of this
violence as occurring in the distant past and in some mythical place
(e.g. “the Wild West”) or erasing it altogether (as in romantic stories
about Native and settler friendship). As a result, many people wrongly
understand settler colonialism as something we have progressed beyond or
something that never seriously existed in the first place.
COPY PASTE, SHARE AND ACTUALLY E-MAIL THESE FOLKS:
These are the emails of the 5 people on the FCC roster. These are the five people deciding the future of the internet.
The two women have come out as No votes. We need only to convince ONE of the other members to flip to a No vote to save Net Neutrality. Blow up their inboxes!
Ajit Pai – Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
Mignon Clyburn – Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov
Michael O’Rielly – Mike.O’Rielly@fcc.gov
Brendan Carr – Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Jessica Rosenworcel – Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov
Spread this comment around! We need to go straight to the source. Be civil, be concise, and make sure they understand that what they’re about to do is wholly undemocratic.
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