Net Neutrality

The Massachusetts senate has passed a bill to create state preference for net neutrality-abiding ISPs, establish an "internet service provider registry", and create a "Massachusetts Net Neutrality and Consumer Privacy Seal".

Not sure how much the latter two things help at this point, but they certainly don't seem to hurt.

Regarding the CRA discharge petition (which cuts the Gordian Knot that is Paul Ryan's refusal to bring this to a vote), the scoreboard currently says that it needs about 41 more signatures.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jul 23rd 2018 at 3:03:27 AM

The California net neutrality bill is back in play, with Miguel Santiago supporting it this time.

I thought it seemed fishy how he switched sides so easily.

...Yeah, that bill is likely to be toothless. What else can you expect when you let someone who doesn't want it to happen at all edit it?

So apparently the grilling of Pai over the circumstances of the repeal was pathetic and only one person, Sen, Brian Schatz (D- Hawai'i) called Pai on his bullshit.

EDIT: Is there an apostrophe in Hawaii/Hawai'i? I kind of always thought there was...

Edited by TroperOnAStickV2 on Aug 16th 2018 at 6:18:46 AM

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet/twenty-two-states-ask-u-s-appeals-court-to-reinstate-net-neutrality-rules-idUSKCN1L605W?il=0

A group of 22 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia late Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to reinstate the Obama administration’s 2015 landmark net neutrality rules and reject the Trump administration’s efforts to preempt states from imposing their own rules guaranteeing an open internet.

I'm not going to post the entire article, as I haven't finished reading it yet.

Can they even do that? Like, it's a nice gesture, but I can't possibly see this working.

Not directly related to net neutrality, but... As if there wan't enough reason to despise Verizon, they apparently throttled the Santa Clara County Fire Department's internet while it was fighting the California wildfires.

Edited by TroperOnAStickV2 on Aug 21st 2018 at 5:37:56 AM

It actually has quite a bit to do with net neutrality because it is part of a lawsuit to get it restored.

Follow on from the same site on that article the day after.

Endangering lives (especialy in a state with Sanctuary cities) in pursuit of profit? That sounds like something Trump and his administration would definitely allow.

AT&T-back robocalls are targeting senior citizens with baseless claims that net neutrality will raise their phone bills by 30$.

... there is so much vile about that that I'm at a loss for words.

Edited by TroperOnAStickV2 on Sep 19th 2018 at 11:24:53 AM

Naturally, they know there's no fooling younger generations so they're going to the one least likely to know anything about tech in general.

I read on a French computer news site that there was some verbal warfare between California and the smug waste of water and carbon that calls itself Ajit Pai.

Pai called the Californian net neutrality law illegal, and the Governor retorted that if Pai won't do his job of protecting consumers, California will.

That's about what's happened.

More significantly: A judge has ordered the FCC to stop withholding records that may relate to mass comment fraud.

Edited by TroperOnAStickV2 on Sep 19th 2018 at 11:24:07 AM

The NYT has sued the FCC over possible Russian interference in the comment process over the repeal.

Why does it not surprise me that Russia might had been involved with the NN repeal?

Because if it's fucking things up for anybody living in anything resembling a democratic society, "The Russians are involved" is usually an accurate assumption?

(if I could hook up McCarthy's spinning corpse to a generator, I could solve all of humanity's energy needs for the next thousand years or more)

Keep in mind that Mc Carthy opposed the Soviet Union because it was a leftist state, not because of its connection to Russia. The only thing that would bother him would be that Putin was ex-KGB, otherwise Putin's Russia is exactly the kind of state he would've loved to help create.

If Mc Carthy were alive today he would be one of Russia's American fanboys.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Sep 23rd 2018 at 4:15:10 AM

The issue with McCarthyism raises an interesting point, in that a likely huge part of the reason that the Russians (very probably) were able to get away with shit this time was because of the memory of McCarthy and his nothingburgers.

Not related to net neutrality, but relevant to the conversation.

Apparently the Justice Department is going to sue California over their Net Neutrality law.

Don't have a source since I heard it from hearsay.

I'm going to assume this is nothing until proven otherwise, still even if it's actually a thing I doubt they'll have much success. One of the few good things about our Federalist system is that things like this don't have the best odds of success.

So Governor Jerry Brown has just signed SB 822 into law today. California now has the most comprehensive net neutrality protections in the nation. Proud to be a Californian today.