Net Neutrality: WE MUST ACT

did not even think about this.

if net neutrality is taken away, your parents are gonna know every website you go on because now they have to pay for each of those websites.

you have a private tumblr/instagram/twitter/etc where you rant about your day or talk about your mental health and express your feelings without having to worry about judgement from irl family/friends/peers? if net neutrality is taken away, now they’ll have to know about it. have an account dedicated to , posting nudes, or ? well, if net neutrality is gone, it’s taken away. not supposed to be online talking to strangers because of strict parents? there goes that too.

not only is all that lost (something that has honestly gotten me through some hard periods in my life because of my online friends and the ability to talk freely about what I’m going through without my parents knowing every detail), but now you can’t just search whatever you want and get that information right away. whether you need to look up something for math help, have a question about when a celebrities birthday is, or want to look at pictures of cute dogs: that is all monitored and can be blocked if your internet service provider deems it unnecessary or doesn’t want you to look at it. to my knowledge, you have to pay for all of that.

(mentioning this because expressing creativity is near and dear to my heart) net neutrality is going to make things so much harder for content creators, like YouTubers and artists and cartoonists and writers and photographers that share their work and get their following online. !!net neutrality is going to make just about everything harder, except for large corporations!!

in such a technological world, this. isn’t. FAIR. this isn’t RIGHT. and we can’t let these rich people who want even more money take away our internet!!

contact your representatives and spread the word. I’ve heard that it’s not acceptable to fill out net neutrality related things online and send them emails because of too many bots sending it to them. call them, write them. I know phone-calls can be scary and awkward (I recommend writing or typing out exactly what you want to say to them), but please consider taking the five minutes to talk to them to help save our internet.

this is an actual thing. this isn’t a joke. if we don’t do something about it, the internet as we know it and as we love it is going to change drastically, and not for the better.

Credit: @https://feministism.tumblr.com/

TheHaleMeadow: This truly scares me, I don't know what I'll do. Being online is the only way for me to express myself and meeting new people. Without anyone to judge you, especially my family who I know won't understand.

More Info: https://legendarymiraclebear.tumblr.com/post/167767684063/mwuhhahahaha-we-need-to-take-action-if-you
Jung_Hee92
6 years ago
@damnationSUruck From what I'm seeing and reading it's just the U.S. first, but other countries may follow and the issue may just become worldwide.
damnationSUruck
6 years ago
Is this only going to apply to the US? Because I'm seeing the net neutrality issue in a lot of places, but nowhere is really specifying just how widely this issue is going to spread if it really is implemented.
chocolala 6 years ago
@Jung_Hee92 oh okay, I thought you were talking about losing the freedom of creativity, if that even is a thing, lol.
Jung_Hee92
6 years ago
@chocolala Please bear with me on this because I can only say what I think since I wrote only the bottom part of this. The original person is from a Tumblr account, named feministism. For the creativity part, from my understanding, I believe that it would be hard for those who work/job is mostly online. Some people's job is completely online and it would not be good for them as money would decrease if net neutrality is gone. Again, I am not the owner of this post, just a person who agrees with it. I hope that this somewhat helped you to understand or just get the idea. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
chocolala 6 years ago
Ok, so i'm not disagreeing with you, but there's a point Id like to make. Most of these things already exist. If your parents know how to use their wi-fi router, they can check out what websites you're on (even the ones on incognito!!). Also, some providers/sites already slow down or ban a few things for experimental, or even intentional, purposes. And, from what i know, it supports big companies in the way that the ftc can't sue them if they lie to the public (which i think is really ridiculous).
overall, i feel like it's gonna fail, mostly because of competitiveness. if it is taken away, internet providers will probably turn into those telecom companies, where they provide so much just to be more likable and have little to no difference with each other.
if you can, please expand to me about the creativity part since i only know about the issue's technological and business-related components