Jesus Christ, you see this shit? It's like they want this cunt to be hated.

PSA from Chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai

So you can still consume products and services from companies that are already big enough to pay-off other people's ISPs to continue to have access to their users.

What if I want to start my own Instagram and I'm not already a billionaire?

Beat me to the reference.

I'm waiting for violence. Someone's gonna go all Mockingjay on them. #WeBurnYouBurn

I want that douchebag to be raped by rabid weasels who then eat their way back out from the inside.

I mean, part of me would like that too, but I also know any violence will be used as an excuse to further authoritarian causes. Pai is a figurehead, the real enemy is the industry undermining america and the ignorance of the people. Wheeler was anti-net nuetrality too until the dems saw it was political suicide.

Gotcha, bomb the verizon board of directors

Welp, we had a good run with se2.

Maybe you can have mansons old cell?

I think you'll be okay steele, the comments on that youtube video alone have got enough death threats to tie the NSA up for the next few years, like an impressive amount of personal death threats

It's all automated now. The drones are probably on their way.

To die for the cause is glory, cell leader steele! As you feel the flames of injustice rain upon you, know that we will inflict ten times the purifying fire upon the capitalist pig-dogs in retribution. You may die brother, but the movement is forever!

I'm legit waiting for "Anonymous" (or some similar group, real or imagined) to strike back and really mess with some of these assholes.

Not so fun fact, if you type "where does a" into google it comes up "where does ajit pai live". There's a lot of people that hate him, some of em are bound to be arseholes, if I was his kids I'd be sleeping at Grandma's for the next week.

This is an issue that is cut and dry for me and has been for years. Net neutrality is a good thing; the greatest thing about the Internet up to this point.

I find myself against my normal allies because they've made it into a partisan issue.

Theres always room for you on our side. This could be a stepping stone...

Deprogramming is available, but at a cost.

So, since ISPs are no longer common carriers, does that mean they are responsible for everything done on their network? Can I sue someone's ISP if that person does harm to me, since their ISP is complicit in any acts originating from their media service? (Obviously I can't sue my own ISP for letting bad things through to me, but only since I'm contractually forced into arbitration. But I've signed no contract with other ISPs, so... a million cuts in small claims courts?)

Sure, if someone looks at kiddie porn on their phone, sue their phone provider. That's what loss of common carrier should mean.

I'm pretty sure all the "Save the children" stuff of the 90s exempts telecoms from being liable. Best of both worlds!

Your paperboy lightly edits your newspaper? I think you need to work on this analogy a bit more.

The woman to the right of Pai is Daily Caller video producer Martina Markota, a vocal proponent of the Pizzagate hoax.

You've reminded me that hatefucking is the one thing (some) Republicans are good for.

I wouldn't trust myself not to stop choking her

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What kind of asshole has to look at his lightsaber to extend it?

Don't worry *too much* over this.

First, this is going to be immediately challenged in a DC federal court. Pai is going to have to show that this change was no capricious in nature, which he can not. His only claim against this being a capricious change is the public comments, which we can already prove over 2 million of them are fake.

So, ISPs will get to run roughshot for few months/better part of a year. That sucks. However, unless Pai's got some secret legal weapon, this can't possibly stand.

Forgive me for not sharing your optimism.

I can understand that, but as someone who's job it is to understand this process (I work for a CLEC,) I am not scared yet. Concerned, yes.

I will get scared when Pai pulls out some surprising legal argument or the case gets tried in some deep red state.

Uh, it's already going a direction I disagree with. It's just that the direction it's gone isn't exactly legal. Let's see what Pai's argument is before I start getting worried. This is literally what I said.

You're really bad at trolling, might I suggest a day-job?

The ruling doesn't go into effect immediately, they first need to draft a plan of action so for the time being nothing changes.

We need to open bandwidth lines. Just like we allow different providers to use the same electric and gas lines, we need to allow different isps to provide bandwidth over the existing lines to encourage competition so the big providers have incentive not to fuck with people more than they already do.

Elections have consequences, continued.

Now come the court cases...

Illinois to challenge FCC on ‘net neutrality’

New York attorney general announces a multi-state lawsuit challenging the net neutrality vote

“We will be filing a claim to preserve protections for New Yorkers and all Americans. And we’ll be working aggressively to stop the FCC’s leadership from doing any further damage to the internet and to our economy,” Schneiderman said in a press release.