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Net Neutrality
So apparently the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) plans to repeal/completely eliminate remove Net Neutrality laws over the united stated, by that meaning your ISPs can do multiple things:
  • charge for specific websites
  • slow down access to websites (in return killing them)
  • create 'packages' for things even like google
  • completely block website access

if the vote were to be passed on the voting date (December 14th) you would also no longer be able to be 'anonymous' as the net neutrality laws forces ISPs to treat all data the same, but without it, it means they can spy in on your data, and see everything you do.

By blocking websites they can force you to only be able to visit certain websites, such as blocking something as this (toribash), blocking access to youtube or putting it behind a paywall to even watch things that dont use youtube red.

overall the repeal could be horrible, and fuck over the united states as a whole, and me being a somewhat poor person i can't move to somewhere like the UK to escape this bullshit.

Overall, i'm afraid this may or may not be the end of a 'free internet' per-say.

Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/t...eutrality.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.5bf1b138cfa1
https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/21/ne...lity-comments/