FCC denied the right to protect 'net neutrality'

Angel4Truth

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Appeals court rules against FCC's right to protect 'net neutrality'

Decision means internet service providers could slow or block traffic to competitors and privilege sites of commercial partners

“The court’s decision gives commercial companies the astounding legal authority to block internet traffic, give preferential treatment to certain internet services or applications, and steer users to or away from certain web sites based on their own commercial interests.”
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http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/14/net-neutrality-internet-fcc-verizon-court

This is not good and will further restrict access to the truth. I can see this eventually being used to influence your opinion as well by limiting access to facts at the same time as making merchandise out of all of us.
 
Nick M

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Well, people can not complain about copyright and say they should have unlimited access at the same time. The claim is you are buying a service, not a product. Most especially with music and movies. It is the same thing. You have bought a service, and they are changing the service you are buying.

Don't like it, don't buy the service.

That is the position taken since people were blinded into thinking what they think.
 
Angel4Truth

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Nick M said:
Well, people can not complain about copyright and say they should have unlimited access at the same time. The claim is you are buying a service, not a product. Most especially with music and movies. It is the same thing. You have bought a service, and they are changing the service you are buying.

Don't like it, don't buy the service.

That is the position taken since people were blinded into thinking what they think.
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What does that have to do with freedom of information and blocking websites because they sell products other than one you subscribe to sell?
 
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Nick M said:
Well, people can not complain about copyright and say they should have unlimited access at the same time. The claim is you are buying a service, not a product. Most especially with music and movies. It is the same thing. You have bought a service, and they are changing the service you are buying.

Don't like it, don't buy the service.

That is the position taken since people were blinded into thinking what they think.
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Except that there are not options to allow for choice if you want what the service provides. And this decisions will not allow for that to change.
 
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Nick M said:
Don't like it, don't buy the service.
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Nick, thank you for that utterly naive advice.

Typically people only have two ISP choices at home, if even that. Both of them would be very happy to kill off access to competing services. It could be like BBS days all over again, but instead of countless BBSs to choose, you're stuck with AOL and CompuServe, but with higher prices and poorer quality.

And then one day AOL would announce that it's buying CompuServe, which has been slowly dying, anyway. And, now the whole internet is AOL.
 
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Last Month of Uncensored Web? :Nineveh: Jn 8:36, Re 13:17

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