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  • Text of FCC 'Proposal to Restore Internet Freedom' released, eradicates net neutrality rul...

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    georgie01 said:
    lkrupp said:

    Net neutrality is an Obama era invention. How did we ever get along all these years without it? Before net neutrality was AI ever blocked by some Windows person at a carrier? It didn’t happen before the government’s power grab and it won’t happen after either even though it is ‘theoretically’ possible. Labeling Internet service as a utility no different than natural gas or electricity so the government could control it was a mistake and I’m happy it’s going away.

    The only restrictions I remember from the days before net neutrality was that websites told me to go away because I was a Mac user and wasn’t running IE as by browser. The government didn’t fix that, competition and innovation did.
    Why don’t you look at this from the perspective of internet capabilities? The internet continues to get faster and more capable and there are increasing opportunities in internet monetisation. The internet has stayed neutral despite commercial interest. There is no reason at all to think the internet will continue to remain neutral. As the capabilities increase the business opportunities increase, and even well-meaning entrepreneurs will seek out opportunities unaware of the effect of their actions. And, of course, there are plenty of people who will happily screw their customers and ruin anything if they can get away with it. As much as I did not like Obama policies in general the idea of net neutrality is vital in keeping the internet the way it is—it might be the one thing Obama’s administration did that I liked!

    The internet is bigger than a commercial venture. While much of it is entertainment, that’s not its philosophy and shouldn’t be. It’s the easy and free distribution of information and communication. It’s more like utility services than it is like a television network.
    That’s simply a utopian view of how things really work. The Internet is only as valuable as its connections and those connections are many millions of servers, databases and other kinds of inputs which must all be paid for somehow. This “free Internet” meme has always been utter nonsense.
    williamlondon

  • Text of FCC 'Proposal to Restore Internet Freedom' released, eradicates net neutrality rul...

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    melgross said:
    Well, here we go, just another move by the Trump administration to take more rights away from us. Now, removing these rules, which were hard fought for, will allow ISPs to decide which sites they will carry. One day, if someone at Comcast, Spectrum, AT&T, Verizon and others is a Windows person, we may not be able to get AppleInsider from them. Isn’t that just great?
    How are “rights” being taken away? There’s no right to Internet access or computers, as far as I know. These are products and services.
    williamlondon

  • Text of FCC 'Proposal to Restore Internet Freedom' released, eradicates net neutrality rul...

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    Good. Let competition for customers determine what is acceptable, instead of biased or self-interested rules pushed by Washington.
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  • Tesla unveils new Semi with a 500 mile range, Roadster that can hit 250 miles per hour

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    lukei said:
    flydog said:
    How is this article relevant to Apple products?
    Because Elon Musk will Be Apple CEO after they buy his businesses?
    Never happen. Musk previously said his plan was to step down from Tesla as CEO once their Model 3 was shipping in good numbers and that SpaceX and Mars colonization would be his focus for the rest of his life.
    lostkiwi

  • Apple's latest diversity figures show static global gender balance, more US progress

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    Here's the thing... So-called "Whites" make up 73% of the US population, but a much smaller fraction of the world's population. Is this the alleged "imbalance" that is being addressed by Apple? If so, they better start hiring a LOT more Asians and Indians, otherwise this should be chalked up to Apple buckling under to political correctness run amok.

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race_and_ethnicity



     Population (2015 est.)Share of total population
    Total316,515,021100%
    One race307,067,13897.0%
      White232,943,05573.6%
      Black or African American39,908,09512.6%
      American Indian and Alaska Native2,569,1700.8%
      Asian16,235,3055.1%
      Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander546,2550.2%
      Some other race14,865,2584.7%
    Two or more races9,447,8833.0%
      White and Black or African American2,407,3850.8%
      White and American Indian and Alaska Native1,846,9970.6%
      White and Asian1,871,0460.6%
      Black or African American and American Indian and Alaska Native311,5380.1%


    And it should also be noted that less than 4% of the population falls into the label of "LGBT", yet this population is overrepresented both in the media and in these diversity pushes.

    http://news.gallup.com/poll/183383/americans-greatly-overestimate-percent-gay-lesbian.aspx
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