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>They've filed court cases against the FCC. They're activly trying to change legislation.

Of course... they have to spend the donations on something. Anything but improving Firefox or Thunderbird, lol

>An ISP zero rating facebook, Netflix or Spotify just entrenches a big player in their dominant position.

No because in the EU by legislation ISPs are forced to zero-rate all services in the same category. If they zero-rate Netflix they have to zero-rate YouTube and everything in between.

>LOL. So a company can't stand for anything because they might upset someone?

Exactly. They should not alienate possible users or customers.

>Have a bit of self awareness. Having a persecution complex when you're on the winning side is pathetic.

I, and all customers, are on the winning side by now. But we have to keep fighting so evil doesn't win, :)

>Who do you think this money comes from if it's not from you?

The zero-rated services themselves.

I live in the first world so I have many many choices to get a wired or 4G connection. The government forces ISPs to share their infrastructure. I understand that kind of stuff does not apply to countries like the US, but I'm talking about my own case here.

Decentralize the vote to the public if you want to see botnets voting. No thanks.

As a customer, NN does not benefit me. The opposite. I will lose access to zero-rated services if it's implemented. I don't want that to happen because then I will have to pay more money for the same service.

>A company is free to align themselves with any goal they wish to have. They see that their strategy aligns with the majority of their users and the user's they wish to attract. You have the freedom to not use their product if you don't align with them.

They are just virtue signalling.

>If you're not from the US what country are you from that would have a benefit from eliminating net neutrality? What are your reasons for not supporting it?

I am from a country in the EU. I don't support NN because I want to have access to zero-rated services. As a consumer, they make my life easier and my bill lower. I want to have the freedom of choosing whether I want NN in my connection or not. I don't want the government to take that freedom away from me.

>Are you saying the only companies that can take a stance are ISPs? And they can lobby governments but an independent company cannot?

They surely can. I was just surprised because Mozilla pride themselves so much in diversity and the common good. I suppose their diversity does not include diversity of thought.

It was a technical project with the goal of proxifying your stuff via the onion network. They made it about human rights. Accessing forbidden websites is just one of all the things you could ever use Tor for. You could also use it to buy drugs or hire a hitman or troll online or watch child pornography. Why not call it a "hitmen for everybody" project?

I am not from the US so I don't know if it's a partisan issue, but I don't agree with NN, so them implying everybody agrees on that because it's the common good is completely bonkers.

I don't know why Mozilla thinks it's okay to politically align themselves. Shouldn't they stay neutral if they want to make a browser for everybody and all of that? Reminds me of the Tor project calling themselves a "human rights project"

Why are they in this format? They look like my grandma took a screenshot, pasted the image in a Word document and then printed it

Said by @ssxio, the guy who built tweeklyfm, a site that would post your weekly lastfm stats to your twitter account... and then follow him without your permission or knowledge.

This is, he took your private information (your Twitter authorisation keys) and used it without your consent to do something shady (follow someone you don't know to inflate his follower numbers).

I am exactly like you. I hate videos. Videos are a loss of time compared to text. They are slower, you can’t consume them at your own pace, you can’t go back easily or read a particular part slowly and then read the rest faster or skip sections or paragraphs or...

Also I can’t imagine anything lamer than YouTube personalities.

I tried the overlay for Gentoo and it didn’t work very well.

I also loved Unity and I’m very sad to see it go, but gnome 3 with a few extensions is a worthy replacement.

That's what they nailed him for. I'm 100% sure this isn't the only thing he did to be investigated. You don't end up in jail for saying "fuck the cops", otherwise half the US would be in jail for that.

>Keighley made no mention of Balogun’s specific actions at the rally, but noted the marchers’ anti-police statements, such as “oink oink bang bang” and “the only good pig is a pig that’s dead”. The agent also mentioned Balogun’s Facebook posts calling a murder suspect in a police officer’s death a “hero” and expressing “solidarity” with the man who killed officers in Texas when he posted: “They deserve what they got.”

Yeah he obviously does not know why they were paying attention to him!

This one works well for me: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list

I wonder if it's possible for these """journalists""" to write an article that is not full of pathetic jokes and puns.

>- Year-long locked in contracts. No trial period.

Here we get a 14-day trial period.

>- Zero guarantees whatsoever on bandwidth and latency.

Technically impossible to give such a guarantee.

>- Little guarantees against traffic inspection, DNS sniffing & so on.

How do you guarantee something like this? Let anybody in the datacenters...?

>- Sharing your uplink with a neighbor can be prohibited by contract.

That's normal, otherwise they'd lose tons of money. I mean here you can get 300/300 really cheap, that's more than enough for, let's say, 10 neighbours. But then how do you expect them to cover the investment?

Where do you live? I'm pretty sure that is illegal in the EU

It does not consolidate monopolies because, by law, ISPs are required to add all apps from a category (chat, video, etc) to zero-rating. i.e. if you add Netflix you are required to add YouTube, etc.

All I see about NN is a lot of manipulation from both sides. And what's especially frustrating is that some people insist that NN is anti-customer. No thanks, I'll keep my zero-rating.

Why are people here so pro-net neutrality? I don't have NN in Europe and I'm happy: because of it, I enjoy zero-rated services at a fair price.