bayAreaShaman said

  

LOL, @bayareashaman , not sure if I am the guy or the opossum. I can see the case made for either one. Which ever it is, the video shows you understand my take on this even if you disagree with me on it.

Psyral and Krunk, what are your thoughts on the Citizens United ruling?

A separate question: do you think there should be regulations to keep companies from involving themselves in politics? Because wouldn't that create unfair market practicies? Should companies with more money be able to lobby the way they currently do?

Pigg said
Psyral and Krunk, what are your thoughts on the Citizens United ruling?

A separate question: do you think there should be regulations to keep companies from involving themselves in politics? Because wouldn't that create unfair market practicies? Should companies with more money be able to lobby the way they currently do?  

Not sure. Let me research what Trump thinks of it so I can tell you what I think of it.

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Ok. Just looked it up. Trump likes Citizens United (or at least likes the former head of the organization) so I like it too.

See. It's so easy. I don't have to think about it. I just let Trump think for me. :)

For those who care about these kind of things. Here is the link to the live feed for FCC vote on Repealing Net Neutrality.

https://www.fcc.gov/general/live

Just be warned, they are voting on many, many things today so you may have to wait quite a while till they get to the Net Neutrality issue.

I am for the basic concept of Net Neutrality but completely against the Title II classification of the internet as a public utility and I prefer the complete repeal of Net Neutrality and complete deregulation of the internet.

There are 5 FCC Commisioners that vote on this. They have publically stated how they are going to vote today. It will be 3-2 in favor of complete repeal of Net Neutrality.

For me, this is a win. Like most old school anons, I grew up with the idea of the hacker's manifesto and other such sentiments. - Keep the internet deregulated. Keep the FCC's hands away from it. This is absolute. No compromise. I am so glad we have FCC commisioners who also want to be removed from internet regulation tasks.

Noah Fence said
I hope your isp charges you more for visiting message boards   

Not going to happen. If you read the actual "Net Neutrality" messure from the FCC website that was repealed -> http://transition.fcc.gov/Dail.....5-24A1.pdf You will see that the it did NOT prevent ISPs from charging more or from throttling streams or any of the other things that people keep saying it did. If you scroll past the summary to the actual text, you will see that it allows them to do exactly what people say it was not supposed to do. They can do these things and have been able to as long as they publicly disclose the information of doing so.

Now the replacement, "Internet Freedom" https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-344614A1.pdf (again from the FCC website) will extend these same "protections". It will still allow the throttling and charging more, etc as long as they publicly disclose it. That part is the same. What is different is that the Internet Freedom replacement removes restrictive regulations about the backend infrastructure.

There is way too much mis-information from the media about this issue. If you read the actual documents you will see (458 pages total between both documents) that the Net Neurtrality never stopped any of the things that the media says it does. And the replacement Internet Freedom will extend those same non-restrictions.

I am at a loss what all the fuss is about after reading the documents in full.