What I will continuously find the most interesting thing about this decision is that it is absolutely historic. It radically alters the future of our country and benefits US citizens in ways we probably can't even fully predict right now without a time machine. And yet, your average citizen hasn't the slightest idea what this means or why it is a good thing for all of humanity. I can just see my wife's eyes glazing over as I try to explain why this is such an incredibly big deal.
I practically jumped up and cheered when I heard of the ruling. The most shocking thing was Tom Wheeler's statement, who famously is considered a corporate shill having come from the cable industry to his FCC appointment:
I get goosebumps reading the bolded part.
Expect the major ISPs to engage in a bloody legal war to try to pull out of this, a situation that they themselves created through their insane greed. They've now been reclassified because they couldn't accept just having a taxpayer-subsidized monopoly on Internet service provision. They couldn't stop themselves from also trying to also stomp on everything they could in the name of even more money. They lost huge today as a result. The gravy train is effectively over.
I practically jumped up and cheered when I heard of the ruling. The most shocking thing was Tom Wheeler's statement, who famously is considered a corporate shill having come from the cable industry to his FCC appointment:
Tom Wheeler Wrote:The Internet is the most powerful and pervasive platform on the planet. It's simply too important to be left without rules and without a referee on the field. Think about it. The Internet has replaced the functions of the telephone and the post office. The Internet has redefined commerce, and as the outpouring from four million Americans has demonstrated, the Internet is the ultimate vehicle for free expression. The Internet is simply too important to allow broadband providers to be the ones making the rules.
So let's address an important issue head-on. This proposal has been described by one opponent as, quote, "a secret plan to regulate the Internet." Nonsense! This is no more a plan to regulate the Internet than the First Amendment is a plan to regulate free speech.
They both stand for the same concept: openness, expression, and an absence of gatekeepers telling people what they can do, where they can go, and what they can think. The action that we take today is about the protection of Internet openness.
I get goosebumps reading the bolded part.
Expect the major ISPs to engage in a bloody legal war to try to pull out of this, a situation that they themselves created through their insane greed. They've now been reclassified because they couldn't accept just having a taxpayer-subsidized monopoly on Internet service provision. They couldn't stop themselves from also trying to also stomp on everything they could in the name of even more money. They lost huge today as a result. The gravy train is effectively over.
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.