Net neutrality is at stake. Please call and/or write to your representatives in Washington and tell them how important your internet access is to you. Tell them how unfair it would be for the FCC to allow the big telecommunications companies to monopolize the internet, set rates to suit themselves, offer high speed to big businesses who can pay while slowing access to the underlings who can’t pay — and who will have no recourse because most areas in the US are served by only one internet service provider.
If you aren’t familiar with the issue of net neutrality, please educate yourself before it’s too late. I’ve written about it in the past and current stories can easily be found on the internet. (The Electronic Frontier Foundation is always a good source of accurate information.)
The FCC votes on December 14. The internet access you currently enjoy is at stake. Please act now.
You’re probably a voice crying in the wilderness PT; nobody will care until it’s too late.
Here in Australia we have been forced, by our government, those parasites elected to represent us. to switch to what the call NBN.
And who gets the benefit of this? One rupert murdock! That creature born here , but now an American, and an Englishman, and an Australian whatever suits him for a profit
We can’t win and I doubt that you will either PT, once more I offer my condolences to you and the American people, who deserve better.
We’ve won the fight several times before when public outcry was loud enough. I hope we can do it again.
The best of British PT.
and may the Gods be with you, Zeus, Hera, Athene the lot, I’d slaughter a chook in sacrifice, if I had one, and somebody showed me how!
Now I have to go look up what a chook is …
Would you like a link to Australian Slang, make it a whole lot easier 😀
http://www.slang-dictionary.org/australian-slang/
This should come in handy when Aussies are in the house. 😀
Then you’ll be an honorary ocker, now go look that one up 😈
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocker
Don’t know whether to be flattered or not. My parents tried hard to raise a proper lady.
Found it! http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cho2.htm
A more interesting etymology than the one I found. Thanks.
Another analysis
vs the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s explanation. People need to read, understand, and make informed decisions.
The way I read the EFF’s explanation is a pretty good chronicling of how various government agencies ( and congress ) have misdiagnosed a problem that does not yet exist as well as the solution if it ever does.
The problem doesn’t yet exist, and we don’t want it to. We’ve plenty of examples of what happens when you loosen the reins on large corporations. Once they get control, no one has enough money to rein them in again.