This is true in some ways, yet it is also a false dichotomy.   There are usually more than two choices.

Why back a bill due to its LABEL that is sponsored by some of the most anti-free speech people around?

If we want Net Neutrality, and I mean TRUE net neutrality then we could push for something that is more than just a label.

Also the Net Neutrality that was repealed wasn't actually about BLOCKED it was about being throttled.   What Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube are doing goes beyond THROTTLING.

I'd love to see more people come to places like Steemit, DTUBE, and other decentralized platforms.

Yet, I won't let them emotionally manipulate me into giving them even more power to silence those they don't like.

There is a history of BILLS in our government that the NAME of the bill ends up being exactly the opposite of what the bill does.   In the age of twitter, often people only read the title.

This is very dangerous.

If you want to be an advocate for true net neutrality I'll be there with you.    Yet, don't let them play with words and emotions and convince you that is what they are proposing.

Look deep.   Think.    Think short term.    Think long term.

Thing how you as a bad guy who wanted to game the system might manipulate the new rules to your advantage.

Thinking in those ways if you don't find red flags then perhaps the bill is legit, but these days most bills are in the title and emotions.   Look at how many bills they keep passing before they've even read them.

Nancy Pelosi  "*We have to pass the bill to see what is in it.*"

One of the dumbest things she has said, though there are many others.

Would you join into a contract with me that I write up before you read it, so that THEN and only then after you've agreed to the contract you can actually read it?

I understand where you are coming from.  I do.

I am just saying be careful, and be very vigilant.    They like to tug on our heartstrings and emotions to get us to react before we truly know what the contract is.


EDIT: And unless the ISP has a monopoly in your region.  You can pick another.  :)

I also haven't been seeing much about throttling lately.   I have been seeing a lot of talk about censorship.

It's pretty easy to get a pretty fast connection in most places now.   Fast enough that they have to throttle it badly for you to even notice.   Yet as I said I'm not really seeing that.

There also seems to be a growing number of choices.

What a lot of people don't know is that the previous net neutrality laws actually adversely impacted a lot of startup ISPs and kind of gave the big guys more of an advantage.   A number of ISPs went out of business.

there is no real politics in the united states as of this time.  

politics implies people debating over issues and building support among a population of voters.  that is not what is happening.  cnn is preventing revolt by explaining things the bribed functionaries do in congress while they act without any regard for the actual citizens and only represent institutions like corporations and other expressions of wealth.  

no taxation without representation is the rule, and on every important issue the congress has proved it doesn't represent the people.  so you should stop paying your taxes, and your debts, if you really want change.

well ... the EU is often mistaken for something it's not ... unlike the US that got forged in blood and steal so to speak during the civil war, it actually got united, the EU is just a political and paper union and a lot of ants down here consider it nothing but an extra layer of taxes. Despite that they pass law after law and fine all countries who dont obey them (how they enforce that beats me since there is no such thing as a european military (there are joint efforts ofcourse but thats mostly to help clean up the american mess since Afghanistan and the bushwhackers family lol ... which doesnt mean i consider all americans methsmoking jarheads but the part where the politicians consider themselves "leaders of the free world" is more than often not really appreciated) and despite THAT they DO have a role that holds serious weight on global decision making.
In Europe last year (i think .. im a bit unstuck in time sometimes) Estonia tried to use the witchhunt on piracy to pass some laws that would allow the government almost absolute control over what content could be put online and what not so its not really a certainty and the lobby here might not be what it is there, but it certainly exists and actually

id think your senators and congressmen would have more pressing matters at hand like

https://www.wired.com/story/us-border-patrol-hasnt-validated-e-passport-data-for-years/

... passing patriot acts and all that, then not installing software to check passports that probably cost billions to develop and distribute ... i'd say politics is politics much all over the globe, i like to refer to it as poly-ethics since they put on more faces before breakfast than most of us would wear in a week

its a never ending fight, almost Tolkien-esque, almost like fighting the actual terrorists globally, you just bat an eyelid or fall asleep for five seconds and they pass a law "behind closed doors" named a little differently with a little bit of the text revised but actually it does exactly the same as the one they "would never pass because they heard the voice of the people"

and so on xD

pardon my babble, its a topic that never cools

i hope you can beat the race there (and thx for the vote , much appreciated)


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Sure thing mate.