NET NUTRALITY REPEAL CELEBRATION THREAD

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Originally Posted by mickmoranis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if you spent half your energy trying to make sure your state had healthy regulation, instead of trying to convince me that you're right about a decision that a) has already been made b) didnt care what you or I thought about it anyway, you might have a protected internet.

But instead you'd rather just kick rocks.

I know I'm not going to change your opinion. It's the average reader whose opinion I'm concerned with. The same reason you brought your desperate trolling from /r/The_Donald to this place. And it doesn't take a lot of energy to take apart your posts, so I consider it a pretty small investment to take two minutes to do it.

I know this is an elfquest message board, so there's not a lot that matters here, but there's no such thing as an unimportant forum when we're having a debate as a society. You view shitposting as a civic duty, so, I guess this is the non-special needs equivalent I'm doing.

Originally Posted by mickmoranis

lmao your entire premise for needing NN is because some evil corporation *mmiiiight* try to throttle websites.

I know you're not illiterate, so stop pretending. This has already been posted.

2005 - Madison River Communications was blocking VOIP services. The FCC put a stop to it.

2005 - Comcast was denying access to p2p services without notifying customers.

2007-2009 - AT&T was having Skype and other VOIPs blocked because they didn't like there was competition for their cellphones.

2011 - MetroPCS tried to block all streaming except youtube. They actually sued the FCC over this.

2011-2013, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon were blocking access to Google Wallet because it competed with their bullshit. This one happened literally months after the trio were busted collaborating with Google to block apps from the android marketplace.

2012, Verizon was demanding google block tethering apps on android because it let owners avoid their $20 tethering fee. This was despite guaranteeing they wouldn't do that as part of a winning bid on an airwaves auction. (edit: they were fined $1.25million over this)

2012, AT&T - tried to block access to FaceTime unless customers paid more money.

2013, Verizon literally stated that the only thing stopping them from favoring some content providers over other providers were the net neutrality rules in place.