U.S. appeals court strikes down net neutrality.

[Kasz216]

justinian said:

Kasz216 said:

justinian said:
Not surprising really. It's America and these days nothing that comes out of that country surprises me.

The truth is, that for some, information is far too easily available to the masses. Information is power and that needs to be controlled among the peasants.

Censorship is the next logical step.

Uh...

A) the UK doesn't have Net Nuetrality either.

 

B) The UK arrests people for saying mean things on facebook.

Oh, I know what Britain is like. It wasn't a comparison between the countries. Britain never claimed to be the "land of the free". Our ISPs do a lot more monitoring of our web activities than most. 

Even if I lived in N.Korea (and obviously had the capability to access this site which I probably wouldn't) my statement would have been the same. 

This is about the US and my statement was based thus.

 

Yeah... but that's like someone saying

"Hey Bob went grocery shopping yesterday!"

and you saying

"Yeah, it's Bob, and nothing bob does suprises me these days!"

While i disagree with the ruling... it's a fairly standard and somewhat expected result.

 

Really, the big difference... and the thing that would actually surprise... is that there is still some moves the FCC and US can play.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/01/net_neutrality_d_c_circuit_court_ruling_the_battle_s_been_lost_but_we_can.html

 

and the US is one of a very small number of countries that may be inclined enough to do so.