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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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x5: Wait for them to redefine publicly available in such a way that makes it very hard for EPA to regulate. (for example: it has to be published in mass media, which is now redefined as "news channels watched by somewhere between Fox News's audience and second most watched channel, so only Fox News fits").
edited 30th Mar '17 5:34:34 PM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVAlso, you would have to look more carefully at what publically available means. A lot of science in all fields is locked behind paywalled journals and databases which have been resisting opening themselves up for mass consumption. Any science paid for with public money is automatically open sourced but that doesn't mean the administration won't try to muzzle it (though there are volunteer data rescue efforts being made to preserve as much as possible).
In worse news: A Planned Parenthood defunding bill has passed the Senate on Pence's tiebreaker vote.
edited 30th Mar '17 5:39:19 PM by Elle
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They wouldn't be saying that, they'd be saying (numbers for the sake of argument, I don't know the actual numbers): "publicly available is here defined as 'audience is higher than 40 million people'" and coincidentially, Fox's audience is 45 million while CNN's is 30 million.
Also, what the two posts above mine say: not all of the important science will be publicly available by current standards for reasons that make sense in context.
Fuck Pence.
I'm completely losing it about Trump targeting Net Neutrality next. I can't stop twitching, I keep on looking left and right, I'm starting to feel hostile, and I feel as if my life is about to fall down the drain. I really, really need my full unrestrained internet access. I talk to my friend on Deviantart, look at great fanart on Pixiv and watch Youtube videos every day for most of the day, and I sure as hell am not paying to do have to do that for a temporary amount of time!
I generally only stick to a handful of sites (Mainly video game and fanart ones) anyways, so the data thing doesn't really bother me. Net Neutrality, on the other hand, does, because unless Cox is feeling merciful and keeps my access to everything the same, I'm fucked.
edited 30th Mar '17 5:56:47 PM by Bat178
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Don't expect the Republicans to listen. They are almost fully in control of the Government now unlike with Obama, and we've seen how they react to protest. Not to mention the Telecoms are bribing them to repeal this stuff. Almost all the Republicans in the House and Congress that voted for the anti-internet privacy bill were payed big money by the Telecoms to do it.
edited 30th Mar '17 6:00:23 PM by Bat178
I agree; Even if Net Neutrality is completely killed off (I think it will be more like parts will be kept, parts will be removed), large Internet Companies will be sure that most, or all, Internet Providers stay as Net Neutral as possible. Can you imagine a lawsuit between Google and Comcast-Verizon being a good thing for either of them? I certainly don't.
If they fuck with the internet and it has a negative impact on people's performance or an unacceptable rise in costs, they are done in 2018. Too many people care too strongly about it.
Now, that will suck hard for a few years/months, but it could also help spell the doom of a party that's already on shaky ground. They might have actually Russian agents in their ranks, and the FBI is on to them. They are stuck between pleasing their most extreme element and blatantly fucking over the population (including their base), and having their agenda grind to a halt. They have a buffoon as their leader, who only makes all their other issues worse when he's not busy causing new problems.
If they decide to screw over people's internet browsing on top of that? I'm pretty sure that counts as some form of collective political suicide.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.The attempts to defund Planned Parenthood depress me. Only three percent of their services involve abortion. This is really about screwing with peoples' health, especially poor peoples'.
The GOP is like a Bastard Boyfriend (or girlfriend) that America refuses to break up with, no matter how many times they hit us and make us feel like less of a person.
Once again, the President that's supposed to be amazing for women.
edited 30th Mar '17 7:18:51 PM by BearyScary
Do not obey in advance.
They even get themselves elected over and over again by more or less negging America into voting for them. Just look at Trump's "MAGA" speeches which hammered home over and over again how America sucks (and how it's all everyone else's fault) and that he's the only one who can make it not suck anymore...
edited 30th Mar '17 7:03:43 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedI-85 fire: Section of Atlanta highway collapses
No relation to terrorism, but it might say something about our issues with infrastructure.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.

I'm loving how incompetent these shitheads are. In the time it took me to start typing the same stuff, and back out deciding I need to read the article before posting it, two people had the exact same fix. Only difference from me is that I thought they had already made everything publicly available.