lex luthor takes over this thursday

De­cem­ber 14th is when it all goes down.

The FCC is to vote on net neu­tral­i­ty. If you haven’t signed one of these yet, please please do. 

In short, they want to cut up the in­ter­net like a fuck­ing Christ­mas ham and dole it out in care­ful­ly por­tioned sec­tions for a fee, hop­ing none of us will care that—just a mo­ment ago—we each had an end­less sup­ply of free ham to our domes.

Net neu­tral­i­ty means every­one gets ac­cess to the same internet. 

The op­po­site of net neu­tral­i­ty means that in­ter­net ser­vice providers can charge you by the in­di­vid­ual sites you use. 

In Cal­i­for­nia, we’re kind of used to this bull­shit busi­ness mod­el, but the ef­fect this has is much more than just an inconvenience.

This vote could mean an end for a lot of small busi­ness­es, starv­ing artists, in­de­pen­dent de­vel­op­ers. Oh, and MOST of what we’re do­ing with FLOMM too. Not to men­tion oth­er dis­ad­van­taged types who work from home. Who would want to fur­ther un-lev­el the field for these peo­ple, ex­cept for the ones up high enough not to be touched by it? 

This is not about po­lit­i­cal par­ties; it’s about class dis­crim­i­na­tion, period.
(and it is much like Pro­hi­bi­tion – also about class dis­crim­i­na­tion; de­signed to shut down the Mill­wau­kee Ger­man beer in­dus­try in the 1920s, ’cause we fought their rel­a­tives in a war or something.)

I’m pret­ty sure there are no up­sides for any­body, save for the ones who di­rect­ly profit.

Why would I want to pay more for a shit­ti­er ver­sion of some­thing? Spoil­ers: I don’t. No one does. 

Any­one you could con­vince to say that they do, prob­a­bly doesn’t un­der­stand what they’re agree­ing to, be­cause lit­er­al­ly no one wants this.

It up­sets me so much that we’ve been con­stant­ly hav­ing to fight this shit. Like every year they’re try­ing to fuck up the in­ter­net again. Try­ing to sneak it on by …
As though I’m just ca­su­al­ly not go­ing to no­tice as a gi­ant stu­pid ob­sta­cle is placed in the way of every­thing that I want to do.

Any­one who doesn’t sup­port #net­neu­tral­i­ty is a lit­er­al fuck­ing supervillain.
 

So
if net neu­tral­i­ty does bomb, 

where are we build­ing the dark­net and who is helping?
 
 

—bwargh von modnar

Flom­mist Bwargh von Mod­nar is. Copy­right © 2017 Bwargh von Modnar.‬

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