So, Tuesday came with the unfortunate announcement that the bill (or what have you) that would allow Internet Service Providers to play the Slow Lane/Fast Lane game with websites in the name of money at the expenses of their users, was passed.
Almost immediately there were many, rightfully arguing against the decision and Wednesday more than a dozen or so petitions popped up in my haunts outside the Wikia and visiting the Wikia, even the staff is arguing against it (thank god). At this point, most of you have probably thrown in your lot with voting/fighting against it, I'm the same. No one, in my opinion, can afford an implement like this and sooner or later, it's going to be used to censor and block information, and violate rights of the internet users.
If you can, check out the Wikia links, do what you can to keep this from going widespread.
Pardon the dramatics, but this is super important
Lily Ford
Money can do a lot of things, apparently. This is by far the most ridiculous thing, ever. Big companies now want to try to have a hold on the internet? Who the heck turned a blind eye to this? Who thought it was a swell idea to be able to use loading time to get people to pay? It seems like a desperate attempt to gain more money out of people.
This helps nobody whasoever but big corporations earn more money just to blow on crap they probably wont ever need to use. Pure Greed. I mean, unlike most of these attempts on controlling the internet, this isn't protecting anyone or their business. It doesn't help the internet either.
Seriously, If companies wanna make money, they need to output things worth people's time & stop trying to weasel out everything.
Unfortunately, with companies like Verizon, money is the bottom line. How they chose obtain doesn't appear to be a great concern from anyone, especially if they end up benefiting from it (accidentally or otherwise).
I really hope people are reacting to this accordingly and trying to get this overturned. This is some mafia bull right here.
What do you think?