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Old 04-21-2011, 04:02 AM
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Hmmmm... I wonder if Europeans have net neutrality while the US doesn't, will Europe begin to surpass the US in web innovation?
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Old 04-21-2011, 08:39 AM
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I'm going to guess no.
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The Dutch parliament approved a law to preserve net neutrality here, except the dumbasses in the PvdA (Labour) and the VVD (Liberals) accidentally voted in favour of a plan by the fanatically Christian SGP and moderate Christian CDA which would give individuals the right to request a provider filter certain websites, so they need to make a new proposal and vote again :facepalm:
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Old 06-21-2011, 08:24 PM
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Hmmmm... I wonder if Europeans have net neutrality while the US doesn't, will Europe begin to surpass the US in web innovation?
Get real. The only time you go forward in neutral is when you are going downhill or being pushed. I don't want to go downhill and I definitely don't want anyone pushing me around.
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Old 06-21-2011, 08:48 PM
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Is that just wordplay for the sake of wordplay, or are you actually saying that you don't think that neutrality is conducive to innovation?
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Old 06-21-2011, 09:06 PM
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Wordplay for the sake of wordplay.
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Old 06-21-2011, 09:59 PM
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Can we still fight, though?
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Old 06-22-2011, 02:41 AM
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Certainly, but first we each have to go to a neutral corner and do something or other.
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Old 07-29-2011, 04:37 AM
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House panel approves bill forcing ISPs to log users’ web history | The Raw Story

I could fucking vomit.
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Old 07-29-2011, 04:44 AM
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Well, I mean, if you don't have anything to hide...
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Old 07-29-2011, 04:57 AM
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Well, I mean, if you don't have anything to hide...
You're right, congress should know better!
Especially Republicans.
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Old 07-29-2011, 05:00 AM
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Exactly!
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Old 07-29-2011, 09:14 PM
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Will your Freedom of Information Act apply?

Can you request your congressman's web history from yesterday?
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Bill Gates is the Antichrist!

If he says this is wrong then by definition the opposing view is right!

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The Internet's extraordinary growth has been fueled by the limitless vistas the Web offers surfers, bloggers and downloaders. Customers who are used to the robust, democratic Web may not pay for one that is restricted to wealthy corporate content providers.
End of discussion really.

This is about a big a non event as when Metallica went after music pirates, only with less swashbuckling and sabre rattling.

Slow news day I suspect.

Al Gore invented the internet in the same way I invented the question mark. I love the idea though.

By the way the ? I may not of invented by me on a technicality, but I was pivotal in the invention of the semi colon, the Oxford comma, and of course Skynet.

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Greenwald. As is usual for his writing, there are too many perceptive observations in this piece for me to be able to excerpt it effectively; go read the whole thing.
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Old 11-09-2011, 09:02 PM
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So, remember that milquetoast net neutrality reg the FCC promulgated late last year? Even that p.o.s. was too much for the teabaggers. The House of Representatives passed a resolution disapproving the reg back in April (240-179). An identical Senate resolution will likely be voted on tomorrow.
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Get all your Wikipediaing done today because tomorrow is SOPA strike day. WordPress is going dark and I use WordPress for my blog but I have my own domain so it won't take me down. Should I go down voluntarily?
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Old 01-17-2012, 11:50 PM
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It's more like PIPA blackout day now. SOPA's pretty much dead in the water, but the near-identical PIPA is still a real threat.

I can only say that if I had some internet property to take down, I'd do it. This is a huge deal, and anything that can raise more awareness of it is worth a day's worth of pageviews, IMO.
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Reddit, Boinboing and Raw Story will be down too, but Wikipedia will have more of an impact obviously.
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Old 01-18-2012, 12:10 AM
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All the Icanhazcheeseburger properties are also going black, which is really great because that's likely to reach a lot of people who probably don't know about it already. Reddit and BoingBoing and sites like that are mostly preaching to the choir, so it's especially good to see sites like those and Wikipedia doing it.

I suspect drusus blacking out would also reach some fresh eyes.
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I haven't skipped a day in almost four years. The idea of it makes me feel kinda funny. Not like when we used to climb the rope in gym class, though. :twiddle:
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Indeed. Greenpeace probably will reach some fresh eyes as well.
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Aright. I'm doing it.
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What are you putting up in its place? A rickroll redirect? :eager:
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I can understand hesitating about something like that.

Do you know about this story, though?

https://plus.google.com/102057379055...ts/4oUsLDrgWpR

As bad as a situation like this already is, imagine if the people who are claiming they somehow own public property were given even more unchecked power to abuse.

LOL INBETWEENER CONFIRMATION HOORAY, but I'm still poasting so everyone can read that story.

Thank you mister drusus.
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