John Oliver urges activism on net neutrality - gofccyourself

[suffragette]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/08/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-net-neutrality

John Oliver has sent out a warning over the Trump administration’s attack on net neutrality, detailing the problems that it could bring.

On his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, the comic spoke about the president’s desire to roll back Barack Obama’s attempts to prevent companies from exerting control over people’s access to certain sites.

“It seems that the Trump era will basically control-Z everything that happened on Obama’s watch,” he said, referring to the “undo” keyboard command. “I genuinely would not be surprised if one night Trump went on TV to say that he personally killed every turkey Obama ever pardoned.”

Oliver explained net neutrality, described the hazards of allowing new FCC head Ajit Pai to 'weed whack' it and showed how difficult they've made it for people to comment about changes, then unveiled a shortcut his show has created to make it easier for people to post comments in support of net neutrality - gofccyourself.com

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[JCanete]

1. possibly the most important issue there is, if we care about any other issue ever. nt

[suffragette]

2. Yes, it's the difference between being shunted to a cul-de-sac vs. keeping the flow of info, like DU

freely rolling on the 'super highway' of the Internet.

[silverweb]

3. That was awesome!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Why are there only 1 rec (that just happens to be mine) and so few comments if we all care about this so much?

[suffragette]

4. I've been wondering the same thing, too.

Maybe it's because we have to keep fighting the same battle over and over again. That surely drains some energy. But, the reality is that we have to and that it's very important not to let this slip away.

Thank you for the rec and your comment.

[silverweb]

6. You may be right.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]We seem to have to fight the same battles over and over on a number of fronts and it's exhausting. But our opposition never relents and we can't either.

It also has occurred to me since my comment that during the day on a Monday might not be a good time to expect a lot of replies. Many people are out working or going to school or doing whatever else they do during a weekday. Now that it's evening on the East Coast, there will likely be a bit more attention given.

[suffragette]

9. I often don't think about East Coast time, being over here on the West Coast.

Good point.

[silverweb]

11. I'm here on the Left Coast, too.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]But I have family there and the company I work for is based there. Everything related has to be translated into EST/EDT, so it's second nature for me.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[suffragette]

8. Thanks Solly.

[hunter]

7. Here, I'll make it easy...

http://gofccyourself.com

Notice the typical Republican doublspeak: "Restoring Internet Freedom..."

Really, Freedom for who???

Freedom for the telcoms to abuse their monopolies and fuck over their customers.

Well, fuck you, telcoms.

[suffragette]

10. Thanks for adding easy link. And yes, so much doublespeak from them.