Now we are going to pay the price.
This is a freaking disaster.
When I was at the Women's March talking with friends, I said the smart thing to do was not react to every issue, but to pick one and focus. This is the issue I care the most about.
I feel like we are way behind on fighting this. Million Techie March? If only.
Going to have to figure out what the right actions are regarding this issue.
B) Emails.
C) Emails.
D) Emails.
E) Benghazi. Also emails.
This campaign was a train-wreck of bullshit. There was no time to talk about actual issues.
I'm not sure if there's a lot of correlating data but the Trump core supporter group does seem to be older (50+) and not always the first to adopt any new technology. They read newspapers, they watch TV news, they use Facebook, they have wired home phones, basically things that the FCC won't really alter.
What removing Network Neutrality does is destroy the next generation of services, something that they have no vested interest in.
It's almost as if they'd gladly pay $50/mo. in cable/telephone fees if their taxes went down by $200/mo. The thing is, that $50/mo. increase really squeezes out those in the lower income brackets or those on fixed incomes. They don't pay a lot of tax to see any offsets.
But fuck them, right?
That story is about Twitter but the pattern seems to be the same post-election: more noise, less signal.
> Hillary believes that the government has an obligation to protect the open internet. The open internet is not only essential for consumer choice and civic empowerment – it is a cornerstone of start-up innovation and creative disruption in technology markets. Hillary strongly supports the FCC decision under the Obama Administration to adopt strong network neutrality rules that deemed internet service providers to be common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act. These rules now ban broadband discrimination, prohibit pay-for-play favoritism, and establish oversight of “interconnection” relationships between providers. Hillary would defend these rules in court and continue to enforce them. She also maintains her opposition to policies that unnecessarily restrict the free flow of data online –such as the high profile fight over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
I recommend CGP Grey's rules for rulers and his pieces on voting systems.
The mechanisms of Washington exist to keep power in the hands of a predictable few, and they've worked on increasing their power. They never imagined someone like Trump could show up and take all their toys.
data privacy net neutrality
My plan is to make a sign for the next march that urges action on those specifically. Doesn't feel like much but maybe it gets on the news. Maybe 500 other people see it and associate it with issues they care about.
And if you host a million techie march, I'll join.
I'm not sure what other details to add, but I plan on taking part.
That's a war that common people will have to fight by themselves, since a lot of techies is against any kind of government regulation.
Same with data privacy laws: those techies are against NSA, but because of ideology a lot of them don't want the government stopping Google, FB, etc from collecting and selling our data.
What we can do is spread awareness.