2021-01-24 Remember When The Internet Was A Public Utility?

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Welcome to the Dystopian Times channel. I'll be bringing you the news and insight into "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism". What's that? That's the Book supposedly written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the fictional character in George Orwell's 1984. In present dystopian times, it's the comparison between what Big Brother says they are doing and why, versus how those same policies and laws actually impact our lives and those of future generations. Here, we examine the theory versus the practice of the oligarchical collective...the club that you aren't a member of. Learn more about that and the topic of this video from the links below.

2021-02-03 The Google-Military-Surveillance Complex
https://rumble.com/vdj38t-2021-02-03-the-google-military-surveillance-complex.html?mref=fw6y5&mc=3ikh8

Wikipedia Net Neutrality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_the_United_States

The Federal Register Vol. 82, No. 105 dated to Friday, June 2, 2017
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-06-02/pdf/2017-11455.pdf

New York Times, Jan. 4, 2021
We Built Google. This Is Not the Company We Want to Work For.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/google-union.html

Section 230 (47 U.S. Code § 230) of the The Communications Decency Act (Telecommunications Act of 1996)

47 U.S. Code § 230 - Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material
(b)Policy
It is the policy of the United States—
(4)to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children’s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material; and
(5)to ensure vigorous enforcement of Federal criminal laws to deter and punish trafficking in obscenity, stalking, and harassment by means of computer.
(c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material
(2)Civil liability
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]

https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
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It's never too late to mount a campaign to amend Section 230 to change clause (c)(2)(A). Why not write a letter to your house and senate reps with the following text?:
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I request that you present a new bill to amend article (c)(2)(A) of 47 U.S. Code § 230 to read as follows:

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user determines to be in contravention of federal criminal law codes [insert list of law codes] or"
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Mind you, 20 million comments didn't stop the FCC from terminating the public utility status of the internet, so we can only hope that reps can be moved to respect the will of the American people. And don't forget, American taxpayers funded the development of the internet (ARPANET) and provided venture capital through In-Q-tel for the big tech social media platforms. You should be asking, "Where are my dividend checks, Google, Facebook and Twitter?!"

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