Net Neutrality

Unless you are a retro or to a lesser extent Nintendo gamer, as those don't use the internet (Or at least not nearly as much in Nintendo's case as Sony and Microsoft's). It does cause a problem getting new retro games, though, because most stores don't sell games older than Gen 7 anymore, so unless you have a dedicated games store that is not Gamestop, you can only really get most of them from E Bay, Craigslist or Amazon...

edited 14th Dec '17 8:21:05 PM by Wariolander

Much of r/politics is all right as well, so long as you stick to the upvoted comments. If you start digging though...

Each subreddit has its own culture of sorts, by and large.

edited 14th Dec '17 8:22:12 PM by SilentColossus

@Wariolander

That's assuming your ISP doesn't decide to restrict your access to ebay or the like in the first place. And while playing the old retro stuff is nice, I still want to be able to play the more current games, especially since I heavily play Final Fantasy XIV and that's an MMORPG.

Hence why I mentioned those websites.

I forget if this has been posted, but here's Mignon Clyburn's dissenting argument.

Oh hey, apparently dead people were telling Pai to go ahead with the repeal.

And so another Simpsons plot is defictionalized.

funny how that works, isn't it. I thought dead people were Clinton Supporters.

Don't think there's been any input from dead pets in this process. So not entirely defictionalised.

Ssshh! Don't give Pai any ideas!

We still have time to convince Congress to not to sign the repeal. Go here to sign in to convince them. An entire board is much easier to convince than five people, three who are dumbasses. Spread to this to every forum you go to because TV Tropes needs to be stand by all who opposes this bullcrap.

Most of you probably won’t need this, but if anyone is confused, here’s a post refuting common misconceptions about NN.

Also, here’s a funny little piece of vandalism.

edited 15th Dec '17 5:38:49 AM by Spinosegnosaurus77

Glad to know I wasn't wrong about Net Neutrality. It's not about jacking up OUR prices, it's about censoring the internet in favor of the big businesses.

I probably shouldn't laugh at that bit of Wiki vandalism...

Screw it. <laughs uproariously>

Damn, with all of this I really hope the Phantom Thieves do exist so they could steal Pai's heart. I think the Phantom Thieves will be more effective than Anonymous because the Phantom Thieves actually act on their declarations. I think this image how messed up Pai's greed is◊.

edited 15th Dec '17 6:40:39 AM by M1gamiTensei

What heart?

I gotta admit I'm a little curious about just how hefty a payoff Pai is getting for this.

That "who's" should've been "whose", but other than that, A+

They also spelled "vertebrate" wrong.

Also, "spineless invertebrate" is kind of redundant.

...but I think at this point we're just nitpicking.

Good to see I'm not the only one who was irked by this.

Since I think its always useful to summarize the facts once in a while, I will just go ahead and quote this from that link up above:

"So, what is the net neutrality that’s in jeopardy? Back in 2015, broadband providers became reclassified as common carriers under Title II. The FCC actually pushed for this Title II reclassification at the time so they could come up with stronger Net Neutrality rules. Basically, the FCC has legal authority to keep companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon from interfering with web traffic in any way under Title II.

So what’s happening now? Trump’s FCC chairman and Verizon’s bitch, Ajit Pai, wants to reclassify broadband providers as Title I, and let the internet providers, companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, do whatever they want to control web traffic. This includes slowing down service by means of bandwidth throttling.

What does this mean for the internet and how we use it?

1. Companies will have to pay extra money to the internet providers, so their web traffic isn’t interfered with. This will seriously harm up and coming websites. If Google was invented post net neutrality they never would have been able to flourish in the way they have. They likely never would have gotten off the ground which is why even big companies like Google and Facebook support net neutrality.

2. The internet could turn into an oligopoly with only the big companies like Google able to pay enough to keep web traffic flowing. If broadband providers are able to interfere with web traffic to smaller sites there will be no competition on the internet as a marketplace. Oh, you’d love a version of Amazon that doesn’t treat it’s workers like shit and actually cares about mitigating its environmental impact. Too bad, the website is slow as shit if it even loads at all.

3. Any websites the internet providers disagree with will have their web traffic interfered with. This includes important social justice movements like BLM, LGBTQ pride websites, antifa and so on."

edited 15th Dec '17 7:23:44 AM by DeMarquis

Oh hey, Pai's weird meme video got DMCA'd.

Literally all I have to say about that.

Oh well; time to go back to pointing south and laughing again.