December 14th maybe the last day the internet as we know it will exist. Powerful players are trying to control how we access the net.
It seems we just won our right to a free and open internet but when there's money and information on the table large groups won't stop fighting to control it. These players won't give up easily in their quest to control the very information we seek.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote next month to repeal the net neutrality rules put in place by President Obama, a move that will change how we use and access the Internet.
New proposed regulations are being circulated among the commission and the FCC will vote on how to go forward with their efforts to control the internet and kill the old bill. They want to replace the Open Internet or Net Neutrality Rules, which prevented Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking or throttling legal content in which users seek to access, as well as preventing ISPs from accepting payment to prioritize data.
What this means is rather than having a fair and open internet, the ISP providers will be able to prioritize what data is easiest to access, for profit.
The internet is abuzz now with this new information. It seems like we just fought to keep the internet open and fair but the new ruling, if it goes forth, will clamp down on what information gets shared. Reddit is ablaze with its users screaming mad over these proposed changes. Some very powerful groups are trying to rally people to contact their Congress and demand the ruling not take place.
The FCC commissionaire, Ajit Pai says that under his proposal they will stop "micromanaging the internet" and that they'll take a "light touch approach to regulating the internet." You can see the problem, the regulation is what will kill the free and open internet as we know it.
This move will allow Internet service providers to prioritize the data we see when we do our searches. Companies, corporations and any other powerful group with enough funds will pay to control the information we see online.
If this new proposal gets passed it will be seen as a giant win for AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, that together influence 95 million people with the internet they're paid to provide them. Now these companies will be able to accept money from other groups and also make more money themselves for the information they prioritize.
From what I understand there isn't much we can do to stop the FCC from going forth with this new proposal. Facebook and Google have expressed their interest in stopping the FCC from this new regulatory vote by backing the Internet Association, a group of lobbyists tasked with trying to keep the internet as we know it unchanged and device maker Roku has also been paying people to campaign and lobby for net neutrality aswell. The fact is the FCC and the major internet providers have almost complete control in this issue but people are urged to contact them and tell them they like the internet as it is and to stop the regulation of such.
After seeing Reddit on fire over this issue I hope more people here on Steemit research this themselves and try any effort they can to voice their displeasure with what is about to take place in less than a month.
The internet as we know it could very well change forever and not for the better!
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Goodbye internet!
Thanks for getting the word out!
I was considering making a similar post about the FCC and net neutrality, so very happy to see this post.
We have scandal after scandal in the media and endless distractions and they're trying to sneak this in the backdoor right on Thanksgiving.
Textbook scumbag move...
We need to flood gov. representatives with calls/emails/complaints - if this goes through we're fucked
This is SOPA all over again.
Resteemed!
Yes thanks and well said. Apparently the minute the Open Internet Act was signed the FCC started work to have it reversed. This is a very important issue for everyone no matter what country you live in because the US is the hub of the tech centre and information capital of the world. The influence they have on the internet is massive
This is big, this is rightly all over the internet. Personally I am a citizen of the EU and teorically the FCC's vote should not affect us, but the decision in the States is definitively going to set a precedent for companies and govts in the rest of the world, also with lots of companies located in the US, the internet will not look the same if the neutrality of the web will be scrapped.
Yes you're very right. See above comments.. This will influence every nation going forward so we can't let them set the precedent for controlling the net in the US
Decentralized platforms like Steemit are more important than ever.
Oh my god. Is this for real???
I'm afraid so my friend, very real
This is terrifying
How do you find out who and how to contact. If anyone knows, please say. This is definitely not a time to be passive. Please forgive me, but I hate these motherfucking corporations that screw the customer, I don't get what their thinking.
Google "Petition to stop The FCC" and you'll find many organizations set up to take your vote. From what I read everyone is encouraged to call their congress and internet service providers aswell to tell them not to interfere with Net Neutrality Rules. Thanks for reading, I hope to see more ppl with a bigger following than I have to rattle some cages here in Steemit with this issue. What's sad is I'm Canadian and I just heard about this today. I know the Open Net ruling isn't that old but apparently the FCC has been fighting ever since and now it appears they're gonna make a big push to try to win control. Funny it maybe timed for Christmas when everyone's busy or distracted?
Thank you . Got it. Feel good , you are doing a great service.
This is crazy cause if they can essentially "filter" what we receive/see then they have now gained control of advertising dollars in a way the attention economy cannot impact as its happening before we even give attention to anything in particular.
It's almost like an override to the impacts of the attention economy and whole movement of tokenization.
100% bud. The internet should not be controlled in a free world. Mega players see this as an opportunity to capitalize on the control information and profit off what we do see
Big money doing what big money does , and we do what we do , ignore the fuck out of the elites , the net is here to stay in whatever form it takes and hopefully teleco's get a boot up the jaxxy
"Boot up the jazzy" means foot in the ass I take it? Lol Thanks for reading and leaving a comment. It's not surprising powerful players want to control all the information we see and one of the biggest sources of revolt is the use of the internet to share. I usually don't try to get involved in these types of posts but felt this was very important to everyone
Thanks for the heads up, I have missed this completely. Reading this is crazy, why can't they just leave us people alone and let us live free?
This control thing in so many ways is so pathetic and more like Witch hunt than anything else.
Great post my friend!
nice post
Weird I had to refresh to leave a comment it only let me upvote which I was going to do anyway. :-)
Interesting and pretty pissed at the whole idea at the same time. Obama took a fat shit on this country along with Bush and Clinton. These puppets are ruining the American Dream. We are straying toward a new form of slavery financial.
Getting the govern-cement to fix a problem that they caused never leads to anything good.
Boogle and F-c-book have already broken the internet. And it is the entire reason that the alphabet agencies backed their growth.
To easily call your Rep and Senator, go to https://www.battleforthenet.com .
After you enter your phone number they will call and ask you to enter your zip code, at which point they will automatically connect you to your representatives.
My spiel:
"Hi, I'm #yourname and I'm a #statewhereyoulive voter.
With so much communication and commerce taking place on the internet and with so many businesses, big and small, dependent on the internet, I don't see the benefit of giving control over all that communication and commerce to what are often local or regional monopolies.
Every policy has winners and losers. Removing net neutrality rules is a winner for ISPs and a loser for literally everyone else."
I hope that "actfreepress..." is the link. I'll go sign now! Well- I guess it was Done!
(My first comment at Steemit)
I'm not even sure which side of this debate I'm on yet. Of course net neutrality sounds totally like the thing we need but I'm just wary of the fact that when govt.s regulate, unintended consequences ensue.
I have up-voted this in the hope of getting this crucially important debate going (also my first up-vote here despite not necessarily agreeing).
Since Jon Oliver hasn't made another video about this, I'm questioning your big red "urgent" picture.
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This provides a pretty good explanation for the US government's hatred for Kim Dotcom.
Of course, you'll probably be guilty of some kind of newly defined felony for using this if it ever comes to fruition.