[ti]warning[/ti]If you want an open and free internet let your voice be hear

[Jennifer (Tink)]

In the US, currently ISP and internet access is classified as a utility. Just like water, electric, etc.. The FCC is looking to roll back that classification which will lead to ISP being able to throttle speeds at will. Think if Time Warner Cable wanted you to use their on demand streaming video service instead of Netflix, they can throttle your speed to Netflix in order to degrade or even make unavailable to use Netflix. Not only that they could charge you more for "increased speeds" to get to those sites.

If you are concerned about this please take a look here:


Save the open internet

I use the internet for work, entertainment, lifeline and more. 

I am passionate about this issue as is millions of people. Please support this if you are concerned.

:hugs:

-- Jenn

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Hey the First Amendment. I do remember when people had the big satellite dishes in their yards that the initial payment was for the dish itself and then all TV was free. Then you had Direct TV and so on. I remember when cable TV that you paid for did not have commercials so now if you have cable you pay for it and have commercials. I remember when they showed tits, ass and dick when you paid for cable, now no unless you pay premium prices.

Everyone thinks politics but it ain't that is destroying freedom. It is corporations, lobbyists that ugh do certain things for politicians and so on. Tipper and Al with the censorship of music for the "good of teenagers".

I pay for the internet and the minute I am not free on it then see ya'.

[Ativan Prescribed]

Your Internet, YOUR Internet, just got sold off to the highest bidders.
The rules in 2015 were there to prevent corporations from taking over and the trump administration did just that.
To say that it isn't politics is just fricken stupid, the politics we have now are not only a disaster to just about everything the trump administration touches, they are letting the lobbyists run all over the country with their wish lists from the corporations that they work for.
That they managed to get the contributions from corporations into the politics of the country is were this started and needs to end.
It opened the door to letting corporations have a much stronger voice in what is supposed to be the voice of the people, but they determined that the 'voice' of a corporation is the same as the one from a person, they decided that not only do the rich have their personal voices, but they then also have their companies and corporations having an equal voice as well, they in effect get to vote twice, without them having to vote...
Know how? by being able to more easily sway politicians and that's politics, with their money, they pay the lobbyists to write the laws that the powerful want written, and they contribute way more money than the average person can, the politicians are bought, and you can bet that all of the republicans have been bought, it's why they maneuvered trump into office, the man without a moral compass, the man who has not idea of how to run a country other than from his business's, he has no idea how the constitution even works, he's a political idiot who made an administration that is running all over peoples rights to a free country where their voices are heard.
2018 is the mid term voting, lots of senate seats up for grabs and a lot of them are democrat, a few are republican, it is to your best interests to see that the republicans don't continue on as the majority in the senate, if you don't know what they have done to the individuals in this country, then you are living under a political rock, they go against the wishes of the people at everything they can and push for what the corporations want, and they want you to essentially be a slave to their business models which screw you, screw the country, and now even screw the world.
It's in your interests to do the same in 2018 midterm voting to take the house away from the republicans as well, it's the best way to cut off the dotards little dick, he needs to be stopped, because of his greed, you just had one of your freedoms of speech taken away, it's only a matter of time, the major players that are now dividing up the Internet are going to slowly take more and more away and they legally can now.
Trumps administration is taking more and more from the people and giving to the rich, taxes are going to do that if they get the tax reform in front of congress passed, he is taking directly from the average person on down and essentially giving it to the top 1%, they get the tax cuts, their corporations get the tax cuts, and they don't need it, know why? If the stock market is going up and the economy is stable, the corporations are doing really good, that's what the stock market is, the rich getting richer because they own a majority of the stock, you can't afford what they can, they own you because you can't and they now have more rights than you do.
All of the things that the trump administration is doing to screw you are coming true, what has he done for you? Have you seen anything good from trumps Washington? From the republican Washington? No, there isn't anything and if you can find some dumb ass little thing in the mess, it pales by comparison to what you've lost and are going to lose.
Midterm elections are coming in the first week of November next year, the chance to vote them out of congress, and then in a couple more years, vote them out of the White house, unless the dotard and his henchmen all quit before then, but why would they if they think they have a chance at screwing you out of your last dollar, your last right as a citizen in this country, and they are trying to do just that, trump wants to be king and you to be his citizens, not you being a citizen who has a president working for you.
Did your insurance premium go down? Still waiting for the golden goose of trump to shit that golden egg out for you?
I hope the deplorables are happy, and they will be until they realize just how badly they've been had by a charlatan, by the republican party, by the rich who tell them what they want, because obliviously they don't have a clue.