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Millennials are Killing the Internet
I’ve already commented on one post, but I can’t with a clean conscience sit by without making my own.
I see so many posts about Net Neutrality, and while I think it’s tremendous how many of you are emailing the FCC, some of those emails aren’t going to change minds.
Some of you are emailing the chairman himself. Ajit Pai was a former Verison employee. It doesn’t matter how many emails you send to him. You could literally tell him that you depend on the Internet’s resources to live, and he would not bat an eye.
Many of you are putting in your emails that hospitals and schools will see troubles. I appreciate the effort, but when these men are the very same men who have already taken SO MUCH from hospitals and schools, will they?
What you NEED to do, is speak their language. That language is dollar signs. Make your voice sound like MONEY THEY WILL BE LOSING.
We live in a nation where restaurants are failing because no one can afford a $20 meal anymore. What makes the FCC think we can afford more than $60 Internet? E-commerce is essential to the US economy. If users are forced to go through paywall after paywall, they will STOP purchasing anything off the Internet. The nosedive in stocks will be the likes of nothing you’ve ever seen.
Without the freedom to choose which websites we visit, the internet, for many of you on Tumblr like me, will become virtually meaningless. Make THAT the message you spread to these two “Yes votes.” Tell them that if the Internet becomes just like cable TV, which none of us are able to afford, they will LOSE the few dollars we have.
They’ll be interested in hearing that.
These are the emails of the two FCC members voting “yes” on the repeal of NN. If anyone’s mind is going to be changed. It has to be one of these guys. And it has to be before December 14th.
Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Mike.O'Rielly@fcc.gov
If we speak their language, there may still be hope. Good luck, everyone.
Another effect I think that may occur, that I have yet see discussed elsewhere, is something like the internet stock crash of 2000. Because unless your site can get to be part of one of the giant providers’ packages, your traffic is going to vanish, which means your site will follow. Multiply that by hundreds or thousands, and then you have content creators out of work adding to unemployment, a plummeting computer market (why buy new hardware when bankrupt internet firms are blowing out servers at pennies on the dollar?) and other follow-on issues. This may include massive slides in the ad revenues of the big internet providers. The end of net neutrality may mean killing the goose that’s been laying the golden eggs since the recovery of 2009.
Adding to that, here’s an article articulating how artists, small content creators, and small to mid-sized online retailers are going to be put at a severe disadvantage (to put it lightly) if net neutrality is repealed.
Have you ever made money online? That was possible because of net neutrality. Tumblr is full of artists who depend on income generated online to make ends meet in the real world. As an artist myself, I’m actually terrified of what my prospects are if net neutrality is repealed. Why are you guys sleeping on this?
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tempurafriedhappiness:
thoughtcontainment:
squireofgotham:
Millennials are Killing the Internet
I’ve already commented on one post, but I can’t with a clean conscience sit by without making my own.
I see so many posts about Net Neutrality, and while I think it’s tremendous how many of you are emailing the FCC, some of those emails aren’t going to change minds.
Some of you are emailing the chairman himself. Ajit Pai was a former Verison employee. It doesn’t matter how many emails you send to him. You could literally tell him that you depend on the Internet’s resources to live, and he would not bat an eye.
Many of you are putting in your emails that hospitals and schools will see troubles. I appreciate the effort, but when these men are the very same men who have already taken SO MUCH from hospitals and schools, will they?
What you NEED to do, is speak their language. That language is dollar signs. Make your voice sound like MONEY THEY WILL BE LOSING.
We live in a nation where restaurants are failing because no one can afford a $20 meal anymore. What makes the FCC think we can afford more than $60 Internet? E-commerce is essential to the US economy. If users are forced to go through paywall after paywall, they will STOP purchasing anything off the Internet. The nosedive in stocks will be the likes of nothing you’ve ever seen.
Without the freedom to choose which websites we visit, the internet, for many of you on Tumblr like me, will become virtually meaningless. Make THAT the message you spread to these two “Yes votes.” Tell them that if the Internet becomes just like cable TV, which none of us are able to afford, they will LOSE the few dollars we have.
They’ll be interested in hearing that.
These are the emails of the two FCC members voting “yes” on the repeal of NN. If anyone’s mind is going to be changed. It has to be one of these guys. And it has to be before December 14th.
Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Mike.O'Rielly@fcc.gov
If we speak their language, there may still be hope. Good luck, everyone.
Another effect I think that may occur, that I have yet see discussed elsewhere, is something like the internet stock crash of 2000. Because unless your site can get to be part of one of the giant providers’ packages, your traffic is going to vanish, which means your site will follow. Multiply that by hundreds or thousands, and then you have content creators out of work adding to unemployment, a plummeting computer market (why buy new hardware when bankrupt internet firms are blowing out servers at pennies on the dollar?) and other follow-on issues. This may include massive slides in the ad revenues of the big internet providers. The end of net neutrality may mean killing the goose that’s been laying the golden eggs since the recovery of 2009.
Adding to that, here’s an article articulating how artists, small content creators, and small to mid-sized online retailers are going to be put at a severe disadvantage (to put it lightly) if net neutrality is repealed.
Have you ever made money online? That was possible because of net neutrality. Tumblr is full of artists who depend on income generated online to make ends meet in the real world. As an artist myself, I’m actually terrified of what my prospects are if net neutrality is repealed. Why are you guys sleeping on this?
(Your picture was not posted)
