So congress has rejected the bill to enforce net neutrality.
Someone on Digg came up with what must be the best idea ever:
"I recommend Yahoo, Google, MSN, AOL, Ebay, and others have a "DARK" day as a protest. Turn off the services for a day and maybe enough people will get the point & lobby their Representatives"
Think about this. If all those services turned off for one day, imagine just how much of an impact that would have upon businesses and individuals across the US and even across the globe.
It would absolutely drive home the reality that, hey, these guys serve whoever comes to their door, so the idea that they should have to pay for the priveledge of ISPs customers accessing them is farcical.
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Interesting. Perhaps not. But they're all made up of individuals, and there's no reason to assume that top executives don't make just as much use of the net as their underlings nowadays.+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i don't see big corporations having a problem which is what i was getting at.Foo wrote:Everyone would. Imagine the additional deluge of WTF tech calls to the ISPs...+JuggerNaut+ wrote:smaller companies and businesses would suffer.
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If the U.S. Government does actually manage to screw up the Internet for its citizens, then perhaps the people will finally do something. Of course, it's more likely that most will just continue to bend over and accept it. I need to move to some place far, far away...
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No... that'd be staying and doing nothing.Nightshade wrote: Which is bending over and accepting it.
I don't have one. I'm a realist; there's nothing that one person can do. Even a large group of people probably couldn't effect change at this point.What's your solution?
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Caffeine wrote:No... that'd be staying and doing nothing.Nightshade wrote: Which is bending over and accepting it.
I don't have one. I'm a realist; there's nothing that one person can do. Even a large group of people probably couldn't effect change at this point.What's your solution?
sounds to me like you're just lazy, and not a 'realist' at all.
one man CAN make a difference, like Michael Knight
Light at the end of the tunnel for this one:
Google decides to give a big STFU to all the telecom corporations, and is effectively shut of and blocked from every user on the internet.
So, they get back to working on laying down their fiber-optic lines throughout the country, before unveiling a new service = Googlenet. It works with all the internet, with none of the blocking or payperview bullshit.
Of course, it only works on the newly-invented GoogleOS.
More and more people move to GoogleOS and Googlenet, which work quickly and are ever-so-easy to use, much like Google itself.
Pretty soon, they become a power that excels far beyond even Microsoft - to the point that Googlists become their own political party.
People begin to vote for googlists and google-supporting congresspeople, as google slowly becomes the domineering political party.
Not too far in the future, Google eliminates and bans all other political parties as being too obsolete in this Google day and age, after they assume complete control of the government, uniting us all under one common flag: GoogleNation.
I, for one, welcome our new search-term overlords.
Google decides to give a big STFU to all the telecom corporations, and is effectively shut of and blocked from every user on the internet.
So, they get back to working on laying down their fiber-optic lines throughout the country, before unveiling a new service = Googlenet. It works with all the internet, with none of the blocking or payperview bullshit.
Of course, it only works on the newly-invented GoogleOS.
More and more people move to GoogleOS and Googlenet, which work quickly and are ever-so-easy to use, much like Google itself.
Pretty soon, they become a power that excels far beyond even Microsoft - to the point that Googlists become their own political party.
People begin to vote for googlists and google-supporting congresspeople, as google slowly becomes the domineering political party.
Not too far in the future, Google eliminates and bans all other political parties as being too obsolete in this Google day and age, after they assume complete control of the government, uniting us all under one common flag: GoogleNation.
I, for one, welcome our new search-term overlords.
fixed it for youPostal wrote:Light at the end of the tunnel for this one:
Google decides to give a big STFU to all the telecom corporations, and is effectively shut of and blocked from every user on the internet.
So, they get back to working on laying down their fiber-optic lines throughout the country, before unveiling a new service = Googlenet (Beta). It works with all the internet, with none of the blocking or payperview bullshit.
Of course, it only works on the newly-invented GoogleOS Beta.
More and more people move to GoogleOS Beta and Googlenet (Beta), which work quickly and are ever-so-easy to use, much like Google itself.
Pretty soon, they become a power that excels far beyond even Microsoft - to the point that Googlists become their own political party.
People begin to vote for beta googlists and google-supporting congresspeople (still in beta), as google slowly becomes the domineering political party.
Not too far in the future, Google eliminates and bans all other political parties as being too obsolete in this Google day and age, after they assume complete control of the government, uniting us all under one common flag: GoogleNation (Beta, only by invite).
I, for one, welcome our new search-term overlords.
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Stop smoking the local shrubbery.Postal wrote:Light at the end of the tunnel for this one:
Google decides to give a big STFU to all the telecom corporations, and is effectively shut of and blocked from every user on the internet.
So, they get back to working on laying down their fiber-optic lines throughout the country, before unveiling a new service = Googlenet. It works with all the internet, with none of the blocking or payperview bullshit.
Of course, it only works on the newly-invented GoogleOS.
More and more people move to GoogleOS and Googlenet, which work quickly and are ever-so-easy to use, much like Google itself.
Pretty soon, they become a power that excels far beyond even Microsoft - to the point that Googlists become their own political party.
People begin to vote for googlists and google-supporting congresspeople, as google slowly becomes the domineering political party.
Not too far in the future, Google eliminates and bans all other political parties as being too obsolete in this Google day and age, after they assume complete control of the government, uniting us all under one common flag: GoogleNation.
I, for one, welcome our new search-term overlords.
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nice cut/pastePostal wrote:Light at the end of the tunnel for this one:
Google decides to give a big STFU to all the telecom corporations, and is effectively shut of and blocked from every user on the internet.
So, they get back to working on laying down their fiber-optic lines throughout the country, before unveiling a new service = Googlenet. It works with all the internet, with none of the blocking or payperview bullshit.
Of course, it only works on the newly-invented GoogleOS.
More and more people move to GoogleOS and Googlenet, which work quickly and are ever-so-easy to use, much like Google itself.
Pretty soon, they become a power that excels far beyond even Microsoft - to the point that Googlists become their own political party.
People begin to vote for googlists and google-supporting congresspeople, as google slowly becomes the domineering political party.
Not too far in the future, Google eliminates and bans all other political parties as being too obsolete in this Google day and age, after they assume complete control of the government, uniting us all under one common flag: GoogleNation.
I, for one, welcome our new search-term overlords.
