This is simply awesome. These publishers abused their positions by charging egregious prices for stuff they had no participation into except for being their host and now the pushback is being merciless. Other areas in the intellectual property feud need the same shock treatment.
I wonder how they'll deal with international vpns, if they are blocking those at the ISP level for instance. It'd be interesting to know how they'll deal with TOR as well.
Russia is a modern feud where the peasants pay for the privilege of being there while receiving very little, if anything in return. Same as here and I'd guess others living in other parts agree as well.
This decision sounds like an exception state at work, "because this important exception law doesn't need to be followed". Repeat ad nauseam. And it's frightening how frequently governments are skipping the law because "reasons".
The govt recently doubled the tax on fuel here via decree and it went into effect the next day. Except that there is a 90-day window that must be respected and tax raises must pass through the congress. So a guy sued and got an injunction suspending the raise because obviously illegal stuff. A day after another judge struck down the injunction because "omg, economic woes, tax must prevail". And the tax increase is alive and well while democracy dies a slow agonizing death.
There are means of providing broadband to less densely populated areas that not necessarily go through fiber (ie: wireless alternatives). You can also go the municipal broadband route where taxpayers would bear the burden of extending coverage to these more remote areas.
Here they more or less made fixed line and mobile coverage 'universal' by making it obligatory for any interested telco to pick regions with very high ROI paired with very low ROI ones. We are still dealing with broadband expansion woes though since it's a different beast legislatively speaking (you know, just like in the US before Title II making them common carriers). But there are attempts to fix it.
So there's a censor that has to give their blessings to creative works that go into the UK. It's just being expanded to the internet. And we are complaining about China eh?
There's also the point you raised so well: porn is widely available on the internet from sources the UK government can have limited control at best. So yeah, it's just fireworks.
They should be attending the Senate hearing and explaining in detail both technically and in terms easier to understand for the average Joe topics related. Speaking to Pai is speaking to walls. Except that walls are going to be more understanding.
There are plenty of people even among us (like the trolls here show) that fail to understand basic concepts and conflate NN with network topography stuff (remember when Pai said having a CDN violates NN even though EVERYBODY USES THEM to make the content reach people faster due to PHYSICAL proximity?).
The very simple fact of who is paying to use whose network needs to be explained. Content providers pay the likes of Level 3 to be available to the Internet and ISP customers pay ISPs to reach the Internet and consequently where content providers are. There's no free riding. I still have some difficulties explaining this and I'm not exactly a tech illiterate.
So yes, go to the hearing, ask Wyden and other sensible people to put them in and explain in detail both technically and in easier terms for legislators. Maybe then there will come a law that will shut down Pai and future assholes that happen to get the job on this NN issue.
It would still fill the pockets of the ISPs. If the current administration was interested in retaining the lead, the vanguard it wouldn't have done quite a few things the most glaring one withdrawing from the Paris agreement which left the moron you call POTUS isolated. But his friends in industries like coal will make tons of money for sure while the country gets surpassed in many fronts by others.
"For me, the problem here is that the parody (and I would air quote it normally) is not obvious."
That's when we joke about you n0ot being able to recognize titties even if they are stuck to your face?
Ahem. Full of bs as always. Sadly they will probably steer away from the costs of such litigation putting once again IP laws in the realm of pure censorship. Win!
It shouldn't be that hard to take pictures of the documents. It should be a drop in the ocean that is their budget. As the article suggests it's just them want to trash info that make them look bad. I suspect there's much more info that make them look bad than otherwise.
Who were the targets of these NSLs? I mean, this is crucial information to know whether they are being used to fight crime (including terrorism because it's just more crime) or journalists and people who simply annoy corporations and the govt. I believe this is even more important than knowing what they asked for (which conveniently from what I got from the article is everything anyway).
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Russia is a modern feud where the peasants pay for the privilege of being there while receiving very little, if anything in return. Same as here and I'd guess others living in other parts agree as well.
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The govt recently doubled the tax on fuel here via decree and it went into effect the next day. Except that there is a 90-day window that must be respected and tax raises must pass through the congress. So a guy sued and got an injunction suspending the raise because obviously illegal stuff. A day after another judge struck down the injunction because "omg, economic woes, tax must prevail". And the tax increase is alive and well while democracy dies a slow agonizing death.
Sounds familiar?
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Here they more or less made fixed line and mobile coverage 'universal' by making it obligatory for any interested telco to pick regions with very high ROI paired with very low ROI ones. We are still dealing with broadband expansion woes though since it's a different beast legislatively speaking (you know, just like in the US before Title II making them common carriers). But there are attempts to fix it.
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Re: Waiting, waiting ... waiting
Captain: PREPARE DEATH-PLANET-DESTROYING-POPEHAT-RAY.
Crew: But sir, it's just one ship.
Captain: Oh, too late, I hit the button. Put your sunglasses, it's going to be one hell of a show.
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I'm a petulant, clueless child that wants to be heard and praised as if I was the bestest thing in the world!
As for the rest, all I see are incoherent ramblings.
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There's also the point you raised so well: porn is widely available on the internet from sources the UK government can have limited control at best. So yeah, it's just fireworks.
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There are plenty of people even among us (like the trolls here show) that fail to understand basic concepts and conflate NN with network topography stuff (remember when Pai said having a CDN violates NN even though EVERYBODY USES THEM to make the content reach people faster due to PHYSICAL proximity?).
The very simple fact of who is paying to use whose network needs to be explained. Content providers pay the likes of Level 3 to be available to the Internet and ISP customers pay ISPs to reach the Internet and consequently where content providers are. There's no free riding. I still have some difficulties explaining this and I'm not exactly a tech illiterate.
So yes, go to the hearing, ask Wyden and other sensible people to put them in and explain in detail both technically and in easier terms for legislators. Maybe then there will come a law that will shut down Pai and future assholes that happen to get the job on this NN issue.
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*Selective Reading Disorder
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That's when we joke about you n0ot being able to recognize titties even if they are stuck to your face?
Ahem. Full of bs as always. Sadly they will probably steer away from the costs of such litigation putting once again IP laws in the realm of pure censorship. Win!
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