kablaa

Hey! I helped write this paper. Let me know if you have questions about it.

I do understand that this isn't an affect of any legislation. But if we were to have legislators who (as bombastically unrealistic as this sounds) had the best interest of the people in mind and who made informed decisions about technology, they could have passed legislation protecting net neutrality. I believe Obama tried to do something like this.

>encourage actual ISP competition

I don't know about you but in my town ISP competition is practically nonexistent. Usually it's a choice between Comcast and maybe one other local ISP. It's practically a monopoly right now, which is why treating internet as a utility and treating huge ISPs like Comcast as a "government regulated monopoly" makes sense.

This would be just like what we already have with our local power companies. It's technically a monopoly, but it's heavily regulated so that they can't raise prices on your electricity for no reason. It's also very easy to argue that internet is every bit as much of a necessity as power or water is these days.

I wonder if it would be possible to make some kind of "internet superpack". Like a collection of registered voters who would crowdfund more money than they are getting.

For every bill we manage to push back, they just make another one with a slightly different name. They are taking advantage of the fact that people can only get up in arms so many times.

It's amazing how much money influences these politicians. I would be amazed if any of the people who voted for this bill even fully understand what it is.

Voting in the midterms is equally as important! If we can regain some balance in either the house or the senate we can block, or at least slow these terrible bills down

What kind topics will you be covering? What do you mean by "The Cloud?" That's kind of an catch-all term these days.

Also, whichever wheel you pick to put on your project is terrible. When someone asks what tools you are using, just say "which ever tools you like to use". Because any other answer will be wrong....and god help you if so much as think the word PHP.

I've also been struggling with this. I decided against putting my full name on any of my projects or social media, but I was still able to link those things to my resume. I guess I figure with enough work people could probably DOX me, but that is a risk I'm willing to take in order to be able to take credit for my projects and show them off to employers