Oh he puts a lovely dress and lipstick on it, but he's offended by people that are simply telling him their ads stink and won't (rightfully) let go of their awful forum censorship. He gets into a portion of the rant (about midway through) where he insists some people "smugly use AdBlock like a weapon" while "demanding everyone know that content be changed and tailored to your tastes.
No, your users are again, telling you your ad choices stink.
It's such a stupid thing to lecture your community on. They're (usually) adults that can control their personal browsers as they see fit.
There's a lot of these being pushed through. They've had good success in Kansas and Kentucky as well. Nobody seems to ask what happens to the DSL users AT&T will refuse to upgrade, which in most of these states is going to be quite a few.
We just like to forget that money was ever doled out. I absolutely promise you, if anyone ever did an audit of the subsidies and tax breaks given just AT&T and Verizon over the last twenty years, you could probably offer fiber to the home to every person in the United States several times over.
"cry "price gouging", "predatory behavior" and get politicians to steal the fruits of someone else's efforts and give to you at supposedly a lower price."
You'll excuse me if I stop reading at this over-simplification and distortion of a point and go have some ice cream.
Right, but the problem there is a lack of empathy and general idiocy, not necessarily the practice or census taking. If X can be abused, do we always ban X?
"suggests that what folks feared is exactly what the survey was going to do."
Really? Because what folks suggested it was going to do was take an iron fist to newsrooms, completely obliterate The First Amendment, with the government threatening to pull broadcast licenses if they didn't buckle to FCC demands that their entire news process be dictated to them.
And again, I'm not seeing anything in those questions that even remotely supports those claims, no matter how many tims they're numerically laid out. Also think calling a voluntary survey scheduled for one Carolina market "grilling media managers" is quite a stretch.
The worst offense here is putting too many questions in a survey that would have, in all likelihood, resulted in absolutely no serious policy of any kind, since it's largely a pet project of one single commissioner honestly interested in giving minorities a leg up.
In fact they're required to gather much of this data by the Communications Act, and the survey was honestly driven by one commissioner's genuine interest in helping minorities and the poor get a leg up. The only fault here is in the assumption that these questions were part of some Machiavellian plot to bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
Yeah I've noticed a significant lack of serious complaints or commentary about this by users overall. I think they're being very cautious in terms of scale at first and letting people just get used to the idea of ISP as content nanny. I think I read recently that Comcast is estimated to have sent out 650,000 notices last year, which in context of their massive 22 million subscribers is pretty puny -- and you can't tell me a much greater portion of their userbase isn't downloading copyrighted content.
I think they're aiming at the low-hanging fruit where there really are more significant competitive issues. They still exist in the northeast, but the deployments would have a slightly smaller PR impact.
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No, your users are again, telling you your ad choices stink.
It's such a stupid thing to lecture your community on. They're (usually) adults that can control their personal browsers as they see fit.
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Here's finally a chance to discuss everything about AdBlock you're normally not allowed to discuss in an open forum!
NO! We're know going to smack you on the knuckles like nuns at Catholic school for veering too far afield from our beliefs on this subject!
I mean, seriously?
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You'll excuse me if I stop reading at this over-simplification and distortion of a point and go have some ice cream.
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People who use the word predatory are killing poor people? Wha?
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Really? Because what folks suggested it was going to do was take an iron fist to newsrooms, completely obliterate The First Amendment, with the government threatening to pull broadcast licenses if they didn't buckle to FCC demands that their entire news process be dictated to them.
And again, I'm not seeing anything in those questions that even remotely supports those claims, no matter how many tims they're numerically laid out. Also think calling a voluntary survey scheduled for one Carolina market "grilling media managers" is quite a stretch.
The worst offense here is putting too many questions in a survey that would have, in all likelihood, resulted in absolutely no serious policy of any kind, since it's largely a pet project of one single commissioner honestly interested in giving minorities a leg up.
I find the hysteria entirely bizarre.
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