Alex Nguyen Oh God oh God oh God! Is Porn Pun Thread upon us already!? Ahem. Yeah, they're really ramming it home in this one. Hope they're up for it, this one's gonna be a slippery slope. Those greedy Washington fatcats think they can't get enough, but we'll see if they choke on it now. ... Okay I'm spent for now.

Pornhub slowed their website down for a day? That's hilarious!

Alex Nguyen well shit it buffers already with my shitty internet

This is ridiculous. It took so long for amazon & Netflix to load so I had to turn off my vpn... they better keep net neutrality.

JSA at least you didn't say white like some people would have

Just don't do it from your personal email. It is still a crime to send unsolicited nude images.

Cthulhu Pacifico I agree. Send it from a friends email instead.

That may be seen as email hacking or as impersonating someone else....just make a fake email account. That is what Yahoo is for, isn't it?

Cthulhu Pacifico The conversation above is how revolutions are planned people, I hope everyone is paying attention.

ok so everyone makes a email with a simmiler name like FuckYou(insertRandomNumber)@Yahoo.com and just sets up a spam to the congress men with dicks :) I like how you think.

It was never settled. Just like the rights of minorities are never settled. There is always going to be ongoing fights in these areas.

Lmao shut the hell up john. What rights dont minorities have in the us? In fact.. They have more rights.. Because they get approved for government and housing easier than lifetime citizens. Fuckin beta males breh... Smh

I hope you're trolling because you literally just proved the point if you weren't. He said the fight never ends, not that 1 side wasn't fair or anything, just that people will keep fighting over it, which your comment did. If you're just trolling i apologize since i can't take the risk that your not and are indeed that mistaken about what you just did.

that's Standard Operating procedure when Republicans are in power

tamperresistant mind I'm a Republican, I'm for net neutrality. Who the HELL told you people like me were against net neutrality?!

Jordan Horni lol. funny. I feel u tho.

Jordan Horni Nice job! Which I mean sincerely, not sarcastically. You're taking steps to be part of the democratic process, and that's important! :)

dude. you rock. keep it up. ;) Baby steps.

I feel you, I've also got social anxiety, especially about phones. So seriously, thank you.

I did too! I even threatened the guy with voting. VOTING! If only he knew that I never voted in my life lol. The strangest thing about it is that I don't know if I was actually bluffing or not...

Katie SJG +

what's the point, brexit happened and a majority of people didn't want that to happen, and trump won even though he didn't get the popular vote. it really seems like an end to democracy

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I remember that... Pretty sure they don't want us to remember that, their regional monopolies are just too good for them.

That's why saying anti-net neutrality is pro-capitalism is a load of BS, it's just another way crony capitalism can be inflicted upon consumers out of greed.

Pepperidge farm remembers... That was ended in 1996.diring what the large corps called the "summer of love". it's why our infrastructure is so bad whenever this pandemic hit my state could not keep their website operational enough due to the traffic to actually even process unemployment

Chazreal We already know it's effecting both of those.

you don't know until you try...but I'm largely with your skepticism...

Alex Lawson +++++++

I bet most of you haven't read what this policy entails. You are being lied to by this balding, effeminate, little man. Net Neutrality is a bad thing & it will actually take away your access to the internet, not allow you more of it. I won't go into serious detail about what this policy actually does and what most of the media is lying about, but quickly *1.* You won't be restricted to only some parts of the web; most ISP's don't restrict you because it violates user agreements, antitrust laws & it gives their competitors an advantage. The moment they decide to restrict you, is the moment another provider offers you a non-net neutral contract and causes them to lose money. That is why the idea that they would charge $9.99 to access something like wikipedia is absurd because they would be shooting themselves in the foot. *2.* NN's regulations kills startup ISP's that want to provide you with cheap service and creates a monopoly for the current big ISP's, giving you less choice of who to buy from. *3.* It kills your choice in products. If you just want to buy a $.99 plan to check your email, you can't do it. Many poor people do not have access to the internet because of this. *4.* It allows the government to regulate like China. The policy dictates that their must be oversight to ensure "equality" and the censorship of anything deemed "harmful" to the public. Anything they don't like will get censored and content providers will be regulated if they are considered to be of higher quality or influence than their competition. Right now we live in a world where we can choose any ISP we want and we have a free and uncensored internet. Net Neutrality means a world where there are few ISPs and a government censored internet.

Citation needed, pls give

God - No we don't live live in a world where we can choose any ISP we want. In my area, I have 2 choices, one of which is AT&T, which caps out out at 6mbps, and the other is Comcast. The vast majority of America is in a similar boat. So stop lying.

Actually, it's been proven that without NetNeutrality (NN), the startups have no chance. What stops the big players who control most of the transmission lines from slowing data from competitors... you know, like they've done in the past. (www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/22/major-internet-providers-slowing-traffic-speeds) In addition, NN has ZERO affect on the choice of products. Nothing is stopping providers from providing the $0.99 email-only plan, nor would that be breaking NN laws. Prioritizing data ahead of other data with no consent from the end user is what NN protects. If the user wants an email-only plan, the providers can provide that. Not sure how your logic works that with NN, that the government can censor things. In fact, that seems like the exact OPPOSITE of what NN provides, where the ISP MUST take you to the site you request, whether they like it or not. Now, you ARE correct in that most wouldn't create a subscription plan to certain sites, however, as per the previous article I linked, it certainly is a possibility, no matter how unlikely.

B D then let's do something about it

Government regulations mean an unfree internet.

MJBull515 Internet Service Provider Censorship means a Censored Internet. An Internet regulated to prevent Censorship is a free internet, you fucking idiot.

B D yes it is

mom - "But you're black!" child - "A man can dream mother, a man can dream..."

F Huber What if i want to play Street fighter 5 and super smash Bros which are home consoles online?

Alexander Castro-Vera yep...

Parth Daryani this has a chance to pass because another corporate sell out, a former verizon and at&t lawyer has been elected in the FCC so buckle up pretty soon.

it's always going to be ongoing until it's specifically made illegal.

We put a shill in office.

Unamerican666 well he wasn't elected, Trump appointed him as a part of his "Let's put people in charge of the agencies they want to dismantle" agenda.

Obama was President last year. He wasn't appointing Corporate shills to important government offices.

Answer: "To make rich people even richer, and turn them into a serious parasite of us."

Silvio Grijalva Yep shoulda gone with R Kelly there.

I think the saying is actually "You should never go there with R Kelly."

the joke wasn't that he referenced Harry Potter, the joke was that he was trying to keep your attention through pop culture references

daiselol still pretty weak

South Korean Internet is 20x faster than ours and 1\2 as much.

It only applies to American ISPs, but that will affect anyone in the world who uses sites hosted in America (which is, like, a lot of them?)

Bobby Derran but I dont want a mullet!

Remember this will affect everyone globally accessing services sourced in the US. Online games based in the US, websites based in the US, etc. The impact of it goes much further than just here in the States

So surely companies will then look to be hosted elsewhere with less restrictions and the economy will suffer, yes?

It's not America, it's businesses in general. The influence of the profit incentive often leaves little compassion for humanity.

They did?

They did. Looked something like this: Join The Protest - www.battleforthenet.com

Remember the Golden Rule. If you have the gold, you make the rules. If you have the money, you can keep lobbying Congress. Which is still cheap for them to do because the potential profits are astronomical.

A Supreme Court ruling would put a lid on it for a while.

but that's what confuses me it's still a band-aid solution open to concessions. the public remains in a constant state of defense against the isp. it just seems like there's no real way currently to challenge them without begging congress/gov reps to defend us. i hope someone comes up with some kind of plan/solution/alternative that won't leave the public feeling as impotent as it does now.