right now, you are able to access everything on the internet, correct? it’s not like cable tv, where you’re forced to pay a company to only give you a limited range of shitty tv shows bombarded with shitty commercials all for an expensive and unfair deal.
the internet is about to be exactly like that. everything, from accessing sites like Tumblr to ao3, to seeing your financial aid packet online, to googling dumb shit on wikipedia, to laughing at internet memes, to streaming things online, all of that is because the internet is open and free. and it is all about to be taken away from you. you are about to lose your net neutrality.
do not understand net neutrality? here is a handy guide. here is also a john oliver segment describing everything.
here is what you can do to stop it:
-submit your comment to the fcc here.
click on + Express, fill out your info, and tell the FCC not to repeal
Net Neutrality rules. Tell Ajit Pai to support Net Neutrality backed by
title 2 oversight on ISPs. make your comment personal.
YOU. MUST. SUBMIT. A. COMMENT. this is the most IMPORTANT part!! public comments close on MAY 11. we don’t have much time to save the internet!
-call yourrepresentatives. urge them to pressure the FCC not to remove the Titile 2 oversight on ISPs.
PUBLIC COMMENTS CLOSE THIS THURSDAY, MAY 11. WE HAVE TWO DAYS TO COMPLETELY FLOOD THE COMMENTS. THIS IS URGENT.
please spread! send this to all your mutuals! spam your blogs! send this to all your friends on facebook, on twitter, reddit, on anything and everything! email your mom! idc! just get as many people as you can to submit a comment!!
they want to make the internet like tv. with channels and paying to get to specific websites and things. net neutrality = not doing that
This impacts every internet user. Please signal boost the hell out of this and sign the petition if you are American
I do not reblog things like this very often, but this affects me both personally and my business as a freelance artist.
In the economy here; cash is already strapped as it is. You bet your ass companies would suck the ever living life out of misc. art sites.
I don’t want it to ever come down to me choosing between groceries or purchasing a new tier package via comcast to be able to access tumblr or DeviantArt (let alone not guaranteeing I’ll even be seen by my customer base since they may not want to pay out their asses either). It doesn’t seem important to most, but I do 90% of my business online entirely.
Please sign up, fight for this and share it with your followers/friends/family and urge them to give them hell as well.
Not writing related, but this is incredibly important. While we pay for service via ISPs, the internet has been a relatively free space where everyone, no matter their income level, is able to connect, access a wealth of information, and express themselves. The Internet has become a major part of our culture as human beings and the notion that ISPs might be able to limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more is utterly sickening. A lot of us are cash strapped as is, and I’d rather not be limited even more by someone else’s greed. Net Neutrality is essential and I hope you guys will understand why it needs to remain.
-Morgan
P.S. Signal boost this if you’re able.
“ limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more”
limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more
limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more
limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more
limit what sites I can access unless I pay them more
DO YOU WANT THIS? NO?? CLICK THE LINK. REBLOG.
As I understand this ruling, it means that businesses now have to pay extra to ISPs to have access to their websites through that ISP provided at a reasonable speed. If you don’t pay, users’ access to your website will be slowed to a crawl – so independent people and small businesses can forget about getting onto that high speed access tier.
This means that the American internet is going to be firmly under the control of those who have the most money. You’ll only get to see the content of those who can pay the ISPs to provide access at a reasonable speed. This means that you can expect to see skewed representation of just about everything, with those bigger businesses who can afford to pay ISPs a premium for access deciding what you can and cannot read, view and consume on the internet.
This is not something that we have in the UK. Our ISPs compete with each other to provide higher speeds, better services and lower prices, but because there’s a monopoly in the US of a few ISPs who provide services, they can afford to do this to you. You can’t go anywhere else, after all.
Everyone in the US needs to sign that petition, call their representatives, write angry letters and do whatever you can to tell your government that this ruling is Not Okay.
Maybe you guys are sick of this post but It’s really important to freelance artists and pretty much everyone who uses the internet, so here it is again. o0o/
paul ryan: interesting how all of you are now criticizing my healthcare proposal instead of obama’s despite the ACA having problems…just saying #vague #dont rb
bernie sanders: omg…just admit u hate the working class lmao. #capitalist parasites
paul ryan: i have done…so much..to help the working class. like you assume facts about me from one single post.
bernie sanders: i have receipts on your tax plan that benefits the rich though…
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This weekend, Russian media reported that officials in the republic of Chechnya have detained more than 100 gay men and killed at least three. The number of dead may actually be much higher; in recent weeks, gay men have been simply disappearing off the streets.
Russian officials are saying this is impossible because “there are no gay people in Russia.” Really.
A spokesman for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who is a vocal supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, denied that any such activities have taken place. He further suggested that there are no gay people in the country at all.
“You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic,” spokesman Alvi Karimov said in a statement obtained by Radio Free Europe on Saturday. “If such people existed in Chechnya, law enforcement would not have to worry about them, as their own relatives would have sent them to where they could never return.”
This hashtag is trending in twitter at the moment. Why? There’s been unusual rains at the north of the country. Why is it unusual? It is summer time here.
Rivers are getting out, rain is getting harder, weird big clouds are on top of the sunniest cities and water and mud are taking over cities destroying it all without mercy.
This is real. This is happening.
It is terrifying.
Yeah I know we are not France. But we are dying right now
I don’t really follow hashtags or social media trends, but I’m shocked I haven’t seen this on a major news outlet. Is there anything we can do to help?
Yes. This is the GoFundMe link for one of the cities that’s being affected up north of the country: https://www.gofundme.com/3ihpc7c
Also if you’re local or you know of someone who will come to Peru soon, they’re accepting clothes and food for donations
Alright guys, y’all know what to do. Donate if you can, but reblog and spread the word either way. Mainstream media here in the States isn’t covering this much if at all. These people need help.
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