Senate bill to save Net Neutrilty

[Winter40]

I want to first apologize for my action on this form. I feel very passionate about this as i feel it represents more then the internet. When I feel this strongly about something I sometime go a little overboard which is what I have done.

 

Anyway this is a bill being presented in the senate HR 4585. This bill would stop the repeal of Net Neutrality from ever taking effect. I have contacted my local reps and they emailed me back with the following response

 

 

December 19, 2017

Dear Mr. Morgan,

Thank you for contacting my office regarding net neutrality. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts on this important issue.

On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-2 to rollback net neutrality protections. I am extremely disappointed with the FCC’s short-sided vote to overturn net neutrality and create ‘fast lanes’ which would allow internet service providers to unfairly discriminate against certain companies and consumers. This will jeopardize economic growth in New Mexico and across the country, where innovators and small companies depend on an open, free, and fair internet.

I am also concerned with reports of the FCC ignoring millions of Americans by mishandling the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking comments process. That is why I have cosponsored the Save Net Neutrality Act (H.R. 4585) which would invalidate the recent FCC vote to remove net neutrality protections. The comment process is an essential procedure in rulemaking and the FCC did not conduct itself in a responsible manner and accurately account for the opinions of a wide range of American citizens.

It is my honor to serve the 1st Congressional District of New Mexico. Your thoughts and comments on this and other issues are important to my work in Congress. Thank you for taking the time to share your views with me. I encourage you to visit my website,(did think it was appropriate to show the email address on a public form), where you can find updates on my work in Congress and sign up for my e-newsletter. Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can assist you in any way.

 

Sincerely,

Michelle Lujan Grisham
Member of Congress

Please I encourage you to take a few minutes from your busy day and do that same

Thanks

[twowolves80]

Meh...as long as your information is okay, and her email address is only for her official capacity, you should be fine. Have a kudos just for having the balls to write and post it here. Wish more people would.

 

...can't believe my state spawned Paul Ryan...smh...he's all for saying, Adios, Net Neutrality! Makes me wonder if the Koch Brothers are lining his pockets. They illegally threw the election for governor by creating tv ads that made it look like the Lib party was sponsoring attack ads on others, but really, it was the Kochs.

The more important consideration, and one we haven't really heard from Dark0ne yet (so please, no hysterics, yet), is what effect this will have on the Nexus and downloads.

[HeyYou]

Meh...as long as your information is okay, and her email address is only for her official capacity, you should be fine. Have a kudos just for having the balls to write and post it here. Wish more people would.

 

...can't believe my state spawned Paul Ryan...smh...he's all for saying, Adios, Net Neutrality! Makes me wonder if the Koch Brothers are lining his pockets. They illegally threw the election for governor by creating tv ads that made it look like the Lib party was sponsoring attack ads on others, but really, it was the Kochs.

 

The more important consideration, and one we haven't really heard from Dark0ne yet (so please, no hysterics, yet), is what effect this will have on the Nexus and downloads.

Remains to be seen. So far as the internet is concerned, all we are doing here is downloading files. It will be up to the individual ISP's whether they throttle that or not.

[twowolves80]

Yeah, but this site experiences a lot of downloads, more than other types of sites, I'd wager. That's where the rub will be. We'll have to see how HRM England-Bell telecom (or whatever it's called) reacts to the sheer amount of data traffic from the Nexus.

[TheMastersSon]

It will be up to the individual ISP's whether they throttle that or not.

Thank you for that chuckle. If this decision stands look forward to stunning 56Kbit file transfers (and porn), unless you opt for Comcast's latest extortion package, which does nothing whatsoever except bypass the same artificial bandwidth limits Comcast installed in the first place. And paying extra for either virtually or absolutely everything beyond a Google search prompt, which in turn will guide you absolutely nowhere except to counterfeit crap made in China. Think basic cable TV service, because our cable TV companies are certainly doing the same. Banning of third-party DNS (if this decision isn't reversed, very soon you won't be able to find your files at all, so bandwidth is a secondary issue), the end of P2P/VPN/etc networking entirely if your ISP chooses it. Etc etc. I could spend hours going on but I'll spare most of the effort until we hear from our Congress on this issue. Edited December 21, 2017 by TheMastersSon

[HeyYou]

 

It will be up to the individual ISP's whether they throttle that or not.

Thank you for that chuckle. If this decision stands look forward to stunning 56Kbit file transfers (and porn), unless you opt for Comcast's latest extortion package, which does nothing whatsoever except bypass the same artificial bandwidth limits Comcast installed in the first place. And paying extra for either virtually or absolutely everything beyond a Google search prompt, which in turn will guide you absolutely nowhere except to counterfeit crap made in China. Think basic cable TV service, because our cable TV companies are certainly doing the same. Banning of third-party DNS (if this decision isn't reversed, very soon you won't be able to find your files at all, so bandwidth is a secondary issue), the end of P2P/VPN/etc networking entirely if your ISP chooses it. Etc etc. I could spend hours going on but I'll spare most of the effort until we hear from our Congress on this issue.

 

Oh, I have no doubt that the ISPs in the states will do whatever will make them the MOST money, right NOW. Of course, they have been ripoffs since the very beginning. Folks in other countries get faster service for less money that us folks here in the states. But, we wouldn't want to deprive upper management of their millions of dollars in bonus money every year, now would we?

 

This is EXACTLY what you get when you have government sponsored monopolies. Most folks simply don't get more than one or two choices of service provider. Sure, satellite internet is almost universally available, but, the service also sucks right out loud, and is unworkable for most folks. If all you do is check your mail, then sure, it's ok, but, forget anything that requires a low-latency connection...... or, if you regularly move large files......

 

I suspect that congress will do something..... but, so far, nothing I have seen comes even close to what is actually needed. But then, it's the government. They aren't in the business of solving problems, or doing what is best for the country as a whole. They are only interested in supporting their campaign donors, and lining their own pockets.

[TheMastersSon]

It's a no-lose situation imo for the American people. We either establish our constitutional rights for internet traffic entirely and permanently, and do it now, or inevitably imo 300 million Americans will march and remove by force if necessary 535 proven traitors from their offices, hold new elections and replace the lot of them with 535 actual Americans. This issue is that transcendent imo with regard to political party and partisanship, even with regard to the preferences of our law enforcement and national security employees. These people are our own paid employees not our fascist authorities. Their job is to defend and protect our rights, not subjugate them to private industry by concerted and conspired treason. So if this decision stands even partially it is because and only because no America remains to be protected. The primary sworn oath of office is to protect and defend our Constitution, not sell it to Comcast and Disney to repay Donald Trump's campaign debts. This is really one for this history books imo, as with most everything our federal government has done since its collapse in 1971, it will be looked at by future historians and they will simply stare in disbelief and shake their heads in astonishment. Edited December 22, 2017 by TheMastersSon

[HeyYou]

It's a no-lose situation imo for the American people. We either establish our constitutional rights for internet traffic entirely and permanently, and do it now, or inevitably imo 300 million Americans will march and remove by force if necessary 535 proven traitors from their offices, hold new elections and replace the lot of them with 535 actual Americans. This issue is that transcendent imo with regard to political party and partisanship, even our law enforcement and national security requirements, and these people are our own paid employees not our fascist authorities. If this decision stands even partially it is because and only because no America remains to be protected. Their primary sworn oath of office is to protect and defend our Constitution, not sell it to Comcast and Disney to repay Donald Trump's campaign debts. This is really one for this history books imo, as with most everything our federal government has done since its collapse in 1971, it will be looked at by future historians and they will simply stare in disbelief and shake their heads in astonishment.

I think you overestimate the indignation of the american public. After all, we were flat out lied to for months leading up to the Iraq invasion.... thousands of dead americans, trillions in wasted dollars, and no one really even batted an eye. We have become accustomed to being screwed by our government. It is accepted as the normal state of affairs...... Mores the pity, I don't see that changing any time soon either....

[TheMastersSon]

If you want incompetence, and at this point I'm not even sure it was unintended, Trump's recent and sudden proclamation that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel has resulted in a 128 to 9 vote in the UN against the idea, and passage of a resolution that bans Jerusalem from EVER being recognized by ANY member state as the capital of Israel. And you should read the list of nine that voted with Trump. Excuse me I mean with our country. No sorry, I really do mean Trump. I didn't even know most of them WERE countries.

 

The precise opposite of national leadership continues being redefined every day in our country.

Edited December 22, 2017 by TheMastersSon

[twowolves80]

I'm beginning to believe the US is playing the Sauds against Iran, to keep Iraq and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan And Kazakstan very quiet. This keeps both the oil and the heroin flowing. That's the golden crescent for heroin production. And here's some facts for you. Within one year of us invading Afghanistan, their heroin production went from a paltry 180 tons of heroin per year to over 4000. Tell me that wasn't the result of systematic planting? Our government is using the drug epidemic against its own citizens to keep the crime rates high to keep these idiots in power. It's that simple. Our government has a precedent for using drugs and narcotics, in particular, to destabilize countries before, such as Iraq, where suddenly, after decades of zero drugs coming in, the streets of Baghdad were flooded with heroin and opium. Suddenly, the country destabilized, and Saddam was on the run.

Psh. We're being lied to. If our government wanted to cure the addiction rates, they'd employ needle exchanges, and sentences of rehab and secure rehab/mental health treatment facilities. Not prisons. And prisons, they would re-institute trade skill training again, and stop privatizing. That is the worst idea ever. CCA is run by the brother of an ex-head of the CIA. Or it was. I don't know who is in there now.

So this Net Neutrality will last so long as the repubs are around. The people who should be complaining are the dems to get the people running for mid-terms next year ready to run on the net neutrality ticket. Or the Libs, but I doubt they'll do that. They'd see it as too much big govt, I'd think. The dems repeal stuff the repubs do, the repubs repeal stuff the dems do, ad infinitum. Meanwhile the plutocrats rape the country for its wealth and land, destroying natural resources to line their pockets.

Tsk...no wonder I want to abandon ship. Good thing I have my passport. Get yours now if you don't have one before they go crazy with it.