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FCC Ready to Kill Internet

Accord­ing to Reuters, FCC com­mis­sion­ers voted 5–0 today to pro­ceed with craft­ing a “net neu­tral­ity” rule, send­ing the cur­rent lan­guage (which would strip tele­com com­pa­nies of the right to con­trol how they use their own prop­erty) to the print­ing office for pub­lic com­ment. Com­ments will be accepted until Jan­u­ary 14th. The Notice of Pro­posed Rule­mak­ing is avail­able online here [PDF]. You can upload your com­ments using ECFS here, using pro­ceed­ing num­ber 09–191. You can read oth­ers’ com­ments on ECFS here. I’m writ­ing com­ments to sub­mit right now. I’ll post my com­ments here when I fin­ish. I encour­age every­one who loves the Inter­net and [ . . . ]

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Requiem?

It has been six years and we are still los­ing the war. On this the first Tues­day 11 Sep­tem­ber since the last Tues­day 11 Sep­tem­ber, it is pro­foundly heart­break­ing that, instead of iden­ti­fy­ing and destroy­ing our enemy, our gov­ern­ment has instead shack­led our abil­ity to defend our­selves to the whim of col­lec­tivists, appeased and pan­dered to those who would destroy us, and vis­ciously under­cut the very prin­ci­ples for which we should be fight­ing. Can it really be that Amer­i­cans have for­got­ten what it did to us? If it hap­pened again, would we react the same way? Or has the post-​​​​terror [ . . . ]

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