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Comment · 8 years ago
>They've filed court cases against the FCC. They're activly trying to change legislation.

Of course... they have to spend the donations on something. Anything but improving Firefox or Thunderbird, lol

>An ISP zero rating facebook, Netflix or Spotify just entrenches a big player in their dominant position.

No because in the EU by legislation ISPs are forced to zero-rate all services in the same category. If they zero-rate Netflix they have to zero-rate YouTube and everything in between.

>LOL. So a company can't stand for anything because they might upset someone?

Exactly. They should not alienate possible users or customers.

>Have a bit of self awareness. Having a persecution complex when you're on the winning side is pathetic.

I, and all customers, are on the winning side by now. But we have to keep fighting so evil doesn't win, :)

Comment · 8 years ago
>Who do you think this money comes from if it's not from you?

The zero-rated services themselves.

Comment · 8 years ago
I live in the first world so I have many many choices to get a wired or 4G connection. The government forces ISPs to share their infrastructure. I understand that kind of stuff does not apply to countries like the US, but I'm talking about my own case here.
Comment · 8 years ago
Decentralize the vote to the public if you want to see botnets voting. No thanks.
Comment · 8 years ago
As a customer, NN does not benefit me. The opposite. I will lose access to zero-rated services if it's implemented. I don't want that to happen because then I will have to pay more money for the same service.
Comment · 8 years ago
>A company is free to align themselves with any goal they wish to have. They see that their strategy aligns with the majority of their users and the user's they wish to attract. You have the freedom to not use their product if you don't align with them.

They are just virtue signalling.

>If you're not from the US what country are you from that would have a benefit from eliminating net neutrality? What are your reasons for not supporting it?

I am from a country in the EU. I don't support NN because I want to have access to zero-rated services. As a consumer, they make my life easier and my bill lower. I want to have the freedom of choosing whether I want NN in my connection or not. I don't want the government to take that freedom away from me.

>Are you saying the only companies that can take a stance are ISPs? And they can lobby governments but an independent company cannot?

They surely can. I was just surprised because Mozilla pride themselves so much in diversity and the common good. I suppose their diversity does not include diversity of thought.

Comment · 8 years ago
It was a technical project with the goal of proxifying your stuff via the onion network. They made it about human rights. Accessing forbidden websites is just one of all the things you could ever use Tor for. You could also use it to buy drugs or hire a hitman or troll online or watch child pornography. Why not call it a "hitmen for everybody" project?
Comment · 8 years ago
I am not from the US so I don't know if it's a partisan issue, but I don't agree with NN, so them implying everybody agrees on that because it's the common good is completely bonkers.
Comment · 8 years ago
I don't know why Mozilla thinks it's okay to politically align themselves. Shouldn't they stay neutral if they want to make a browser for everybody and all of that? Reminds me of the Tor project calling themselves a "human rights project"
Comment · 8 years ago
Why are they in this format? They look like my grandma took a screenshot, pasted the image in a Word document and then printed it
Comment · 8 years ago
Said by @ssxio, the guy who built tweeklyfm, a site that would post your weekly lastfm stats to your twitter account... and then follow him without your permission or knowledge.

This is, he took your private information (your Twitter authorisation keys) and used it without your consent to do something shady (follow someone you don't know to inflate his follower numbers).

Comment · 8 years ago
I am exactly like you. I hate videos. Videos are a loss of time compared to text. They are slower, you can’t consume them at your own pace, you can’t go back easily or read a particular part slowly and then read the rest faster or skip sections or paragraphs or...

Also I can’t imagine anything lamer than YouTube personalities.

Comment · 8 years ago
I tried the overlay for Gentoo and it didn’t work very well.

I also loved Unity and I’m very sad to see it go, but gnome 3 with a few extensions is a worthy replacement.

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