breaking: net neutrality dead, small businesses to suffer, lex luthor gets australia

“Net neu­tral­i­ty re­pealed.
Fuck Republicans.
Fuck this administration.
Fuck you if you vot­ed for any of it.
This stuff doesn’t just hap­pen. Vot­ers cause it to hap­pen. This is a cor­rupt par­ty do­ing quite lit­er­al­ly noth­ing but dam­age to our coun­try and if you vot­ed ® you are ab­solute­ly and un­equiv­o­cal­ly 100% re­spon­si­ble for that dam­age. Fuck. You.”
—Ja­son Malmberg

“I dis­sent, be­cause I am among the mil­lions outraged.”
—Mignon Clyburn, De­mo­c­ra­t­ic FCC commissioner

“This is not good. Not good for con­sumers. Not good for busi­ness­es. Not good for any­one who con­nects and cre­ates online.”
—Jes­si­ca Rosen­wor­cel, oth­er De­mo­c­ra­t­ic FCC commissioner

“Just once I’d like to have a nice day where I don’t have to fight for my rights as a free cit­i­zen. JUST ONCE.”
—Ellen Siev­ers
 

The re­peal of net neu­tral­i­ty WILL tank my small business.

•  A busi­ness that I start­ed with cap­i­tal I saved work­ing a hu­mil­i­at­ing job for a dis­re­spect­ful and la­bor-abus­ing em­ploy­er be­cause I couldn’t find de­cent em­ploy­ment at the time.

•  A small busi­ness I built over al­most three years work­ing some­times 38 hours over a weekend.

•  A small busi­ness that helps oth­er small busi­ness­es com­pete against cor­po­rate gi­ants and non­prof­its achieve their fund­ing goals (BTW my clients will be su­per fucked too).

•  A small busi­ness I cur­rent­ly main­tain with a full time job work­ing for my men­tors in or­der to learn how to bet­ter build and run a company.

MOST IM­POR­TANT­LY TO ME

A small busi­ness I imag­ined one day lever­ag­ing the profits/success into build­ing the kind of com­pa­ny where I could ex­press my val­ues like fair hir­ing prac­tices, prof­it shar­ing with em­ploy­ees, and a strong and re­ward­ing com­pa­ny cul­ture. A busi­ness where I could carve out at least a small space to counter the end­less abus­es work­ers face in our im­bal­anced Cap­i­tal­ist sys­tem. A suc­cess­ful busi­ness that could set a prece­dent for work­ers’ rights and sus­tain­abil­i­ty for oth­er com­pa­nies be­cause lord fuck­ing knows we aren’t get­ting any­where at the pol­i­cy level.

FUCK THE GOP.
FUCK ANY­ONE WHO VOT­ED FOR THE GOP.
THIS IS FUCK­ING BULLSHIT.
 
 

—na­tal­ie michelle

Flom­mist Na­tal­ie Michelle does­n’t have a bio. She just rants. Copy­right © 2017 Na­tal­ie Michelle. Top im­age via Ellen Sievers.

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