ZOMG! First open internet and then he's coming for our guns!
February 26, 2015 was quite a day for the denizens of the internet world. First, the epic decision by the FCC
to keep the internet open and free, followed by the
great Arizona llama escape and finally the
incredible dress debate.
In all the excitement, you probably missed the Fox News coverage of the Net Neutrality decision.
It's the end of the internet as we know it!
"Broad regulation of how Americans use the internet." Curious choice of language given that Net Neutrality is about
maintaining an open internet.
Net Neutrality is the Internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online. This is the definition of an open Internet.
Net Neutrality means an Internet that enables and protects free speech. It means that Internet service providers should provide us with open networks — and should not block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company shouldn't decide who you can call and what you say on that call, your ISP shouldn't be concerned with the content you view or post online.
Without Net Neutrality, cable and phone companies could carve the Internet into fast and slow lanes. An ISP could slow down its competitors' content or block political opinions it disagreed with. ISPs could charge extra fees to the few content companies that could afford to pay for preferential treatment — relegating everyone else to a slower tier of service. This would destroy the open Internet.
So, how did Fox News fans react to the decision to keep the internet open and free? With unbridled outrage. Of course. I'm not including any names, only the comments, but below are a sample of the most uprated comments from the
Fox News Facebook page:
Hey 51% of you morons voted for him twice. You get what you get. And for those of you who stayed home and didn't vote for Mitt....up yours !
There goes Internet freedom. First thing will be no Fox News web site.
So I guess our first amendment rights don't matter.
There goes the Internet as we know it.
Are we living in North Korea??? Wait.. we must not... they at least control their borders.
The Fall of Rome
Obama is trash
I didn't realize that something needed to be "fixed". Leave it to the government to step in a fix something that didn't need to be fixed.
Take freedom one bite at a time and the country watches in silence.
Next he is after the bullets. How is it that we are putting up with this? I don't care what this guy's religion is or where he was born, it is too late to care about that, but I truly care that he is single handedly destroying the Constitution of the United States and for that he should be removed from office.
Venezuela did the same thing as they tightened down on their communist regime. Then when the GNB was arresting, raping, and killing student protesters, they blocked the Internet and social media accounts of dissidents who where uploading all the proof to Twitter and Facebook... And this was all last year, by the way.
The FCC just voted for government to sensor all content distributed onto the web. Prepare to be brainwashed with Liberal propaganda, and the word Freedom stripped from our vocabulary.
Thanks again to the uneducated voters who have laid out my children's and Grand Children's futures. Much appreciated.
Let that last one sink in a bit. Sadly, this is what we are up against as a country.