Topic: Net Neutrality and E621.net - A dystopian tale

Waba said:
Except it's been attempted and stopped before. It's attitudes like that that has gotten a certain person where he is today.

Largely the vote got split on party lines- dems voted to keep net neutrality, reps voted against it. When it got blocked before there was a dem majority. Now there's a rep majority. If they vote with their party again then yes, net neutrality will likely be repealed. People can try to call in and give their opinion, but that's not a vote and has no real power, especially in areas where people pick their senators/representatives based mostly on party and there are few/no other candidates of that party to choose from.

The non-mainstream internet is also still seen as a pretty niche interest. Sure, everyone has Facebook and Twitter, but these are big enough to not likely be affected too badly. Fandom sites, gaming? That's weird nerd shit people not into weird nerd shit don't care about. Most people also don't know or care about less mainstream or niche news sites. And many conservatives would (at least publicly) love to be able to claim they're stopping internet porn.

In order to get this to be stopped, and stopped every time it comes up (because it will keep getting brought up until it either passes or we go extinct), you'd need to convince politicians that it's not a party issue and you'd need to convince people who absolutely do not care about this issue that it IS worth their time.

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