Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4327179-20171215010513/@comment-4820209-20171215080849

Some misconceptions are present here. Mainly in that, the vote to repeal the rules went by today, but the regulations still need to go through Congress before being officially enacted. So, today, and for the next few months, provided this does go through, we're still fine. The switch wasn't flipped today.

I agree with the mentality of supporting NN, and endorse that message you speak, but just clarify the points. Remember, you don't want to spread an improper doomsday message, you want to spread an informative one.

Just some perspective, while net neutrality certainly is a thing we do want, take into account that the internet wasn't legislated like this until 2015. Meaning, pre-2015 legislation is basically what we're going back to. Now, I'm not saying that's the best thing ever, but I doubt people will disconnect their internet because of this issue, and it's not like the internet was a depressive hell hole back then.

Another key point, this isn't about government control, this is about corporate control. The repeal basically allows once illegal actions to be legal, mainly for financial gain. This includes throttling competitors in the market, for example, like Verizon was caught doing to Netflix a few years back. While members of government do support it, it's not really done to appease them, but corporations. Although, granted, given how many are basically in the pockets of corporations, one could argue they're somewhat synonymous, lol.

Finally...

"Also, the internet will no longer be secret, and everything you do on the internet will be monitered by the US government and by foreign services. Governments can now censor, regulate, track, and even use a person's internet activity to persecute"

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This isn't really why we want net neutrality. Traffic and what goes on therein is already monitored by ISPs. Same for tracking, which ISPs, and many average people can do with an IP. We also use internet activity to persecute many people already. Case in point, many child porn cases. Basically, the internet at a base isn't really secret.

Why we want net neutrality more so boils down to a free market, as these new rollbacks can harm smaller businesses and sites in this idea of a "two lane" system. Basically eradicating any idea of a free market.

TL:DR: I support NN, but I'm just clarifying some errors.