In de VS staat het internetland op de kop, dit vanwege de te verwachten opheffing van de netneutraliteit aldaar. Het gaat daarbij niet alleen om de vraag of providers bepaalde soorten internetverkeer met voorrang dan wel met vertraging mogen behandelen, maar waar deze providers zelfs bepaalde sites kunnen blokkeren. Gezien het feit dat sites als Facebook en zoekmachine Google in de Engelse versies al voorrang geven aan de reguliere (massa-) media, boven de alternatieve media, doet het ergste vrezen….
Vergeet niet dat juist die reguliere media bekend staan om het brengen van ‘fake news’ (of: ‘nepnieuws’), neem de verslaggeving vooraf en tijdens de illegale oorlogen die de VS (met steun van NAVO partners als Nederland) alleen deze eeuw al voerde (en nog voert, neem Afghanistan en Irak)……..
Kortom, het opheffen van de netneutraliteit is een ramp voor echte onafhankelijke berichtgeving……
Het zal je niet verwonderen dat met het al getekende CETA vrijhandelsverdrag en het nog te tekenen TTIP verdrag, ook wij netneutraliteit zullen verliezen, al moet ik toegeven dat dit waarschijnlijk niet eens nodig is. Immers de EU holt graag achter de VS aan, als het om deze zaken gaat en de afzonderlijke EU partners zijn de alternatieve media al lang meer dan zat, daar ze keer op keer smerig beleid aan de paal nagelen……….
Hier een artikel van Jake Johnson op Common Dreams, waarin hij de gevolgen die het opheffen van de netneutraliteit en en de acties daartegen, die o.a. gisteren plaatsvonden, op een rij heeft gezet:
Massive
‘Break the Internet’ Revolt Begins Today to ‘Save Net
Neutrality’
December
12, 2017 at 5:41 am
Written
by Jake
Johnson
Major
websites and social media platforms are teaming up for an “epic”
online demonstration to show what the web would look like without net
neutrality.
(COMMONDREAMS) — In
addition to making their voices heard in
the streets,
net neutrality defenders have planned a massive online demonstration
this week ahead of the FCC’s scheduled
vote on
chairman Ajit Pai’s deeply
unpopular plan
to kill the open internet, which critics have denounced as “naked
corporatism.”
“The
FCC is days away from voting to kill net neutrality, but Congress can
still stop them. On December 12th we’ll #BreakTheInternet to stop
censorship, throttling, and extra fees.” —Zephyr
Teachout
Slated
to begin Tuesday—and continue through to the scheduled vote by the
Republican-controlled FCC on Thursday—the “Break
the Internet”
protest is aimed at showing “the world what the web will look like
without net neutrality.”
The
demonstrations will vary widely, depending on the platform. “Facebook
and LinkedIn users will
‘break’
their profiles by changing their relationship status to ‘Married’
(to net neutrality) or adding a new ‘job’ of ‘Defending Net
Neutrality,’” Fight for the Future noted in
a press release on Monday. “Websites and apps will participate by
doing something to ‘break’ their platform and encourage their
users to contact Congress.”
Many
major websites have been working in conjunction with activists to
drive calls to Congress since the day Pai unveiled his
plan to eliminate net neutrality rules just before Thanksgiving.
According to Battle
for the Net,
over 833,000 calls have been made since November 21.
Last
week, internet users flooded
the front page of
Reddit with posts shaming their representatives for selling out to
the telecom industry—and applauding those who have stood firm in
their support for net neutrality.
More
of the same is expected on Tuesday, as websites large and small will
use their platforms to mobilize further opposition to Pai’s attack
on net neutrality with a variety of tools—from simple banners
warning that the “FCC is about to vote to kill net neutrality” to
video bumpers demonstrating “the kind of power that giant cable
companies will have over us if we let the FCC end net neutrality
rules.”
Individual
supporters of net neutrality have also been encouraged to participate
by flooding congressional phone lines and using their platforms on
Facebook, Twitter, and sites to raise alarm about the devastating
consequences Pai’s proposals will have on the web.
Using
the hashtag #BreaktheInternet, many have taken to Twitter to promote
the upcoming demonstration and encourage others to take part.
Don’t want to see this sign when you try logging on to the
internet next? Now is the time to make a loud noise.
#BreakTheInternet #SaveNetNeutrality
#SaveTheInternet#FreedomOfSpeech #NetNeutrality
The FCC is days away from voting to kill NetNeutrality, but Congress can still stop them. On December 12th we’ll #BreakTheInternet to stop censorship, throttling, and extra fees: battleforthenet.com/breaktheintern…
Massive online protest planned two days before FCC net neutrality vote
Congress can still save the Internet. But only if we make them.
HIERONDER NOG EEN VIDEO, DIE IK NIET KAN OVERNEMEN, ZIE
Announcing the epic Internet takedown of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai & powerful internet providers: starting 48 hours before the FCC vote to kill #NetNeutrality, we #BreakTheInternet & force Congress to stop the vote. Are you in? breaktheinternetprotest.org
By Jake
Johnson / Creative
Commons / Common
Dreams / Report
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