Last Thursday was a surprising victory for those of us who live in the Real World. The FCC finally did its job after being a rubber-stamp organization for 34 years. I’m most surprised that Chairman and former corporate prostitute Tom Wheeler pushed it through. I figured he was Michael Powell Lite.
Of course there will be lawsuits, the thing Corporations said are bad except when they file them to protect their fiefdoms. Verizon demonstrated its immaturity, complaining via Morse code. Seemed fitting, AT&T (my mediocre ISP), Comcast, Time Warner and Verizon charge ridiculous prices for Eighties technology. Then will come the Libertarian-Republican-Corporate bullshit. The usual, it’s interference, it’s more regulation, blah blah blah. They only believe in toll roads as the solution to everything. Nevermind that oddly average Internet speed is higher in DC than most of the nation. Coincidence? The Republicans and DINOs haven’t been a bribe they didn’t like neither. Currently, I’m reading Merchants of Doubt which has given a preview of the obfuscation campaign the Republicans and their allies will employ. Mostly a rehashing of what they have done for Big Tobacco, climate change, winning a nuclear war and acid rain.
Next up. Finding a way to ditch AT&T who jacked my monthly bill $6/month or lowering it. With the site moving off the server at home, there’s less need for a static IP now.