The Goat Pen

you don't even want to know why I got ads for cow milking machines

LMAO!

LOL

interesting story this morning on the challenge of having a free internet in China.

The gist of the story was that China has firewalls in place and people have to play this cat and mouse game of using VPNs to get around them, The firewall prevents access to hundreds of sites that China deems inappropriate from politics, porn, and business.

The end of the story referenced a man who moved to Hong Kong solely for the internet access which is still relatively free from draconian Chinese rule.

That got me thinking about Net Neutrality. To me its not so far fetched to believe that if tiered systems were put into place with the repeal of net neutrality, just like schools and public transportation, public internet will be a consideration when moving to a community.

I looked into it a bit and 21 states currently have regulations against local governments developing or allowing competing broadband. Ohio and Kentucky have yet to implement these laws, North Carolina and Alabama have variations of them

Earlier this week a councilman proposed a city wide broadband network for Los Angeles and if approved will be the largest broadband run by a municipality in the nation. They plan on modeling it after Chattanooga, currently the gold standard for a well run, affordable community provided broadband network.

https://genesight.com

Gonna try it. You weird psycho idiots might want to try it too. Praying to an American Cheese head looking President isnt working so far. Go ahead. Fire me too.

eCat wrote:interesting story this morning on the challenge of having a free internet in China.

The gist of the story was that China has firewalls in place and people have to play this cat and mouse game of using VPNs to get around them, The firewall prevents access to hundreds of sites that China deems inappropriate from politics, porn, and business.

The end of the story referenced a man who moved to Hong Kong solely for the internet access which is still relatively free from draconian Chinese rule.

That got me thinking about Net Neutrality. To me its not so far fetched to believe that if tiered systems were put into place with the repeal of net neutrality, just like schools and public transportation, public internet will be a consideration when moving to a community.

I looked into it a bit and 21 states currently have regulations against local governments developing or allowing competing broadband. Ohio and Kentucky have yet to implement these laws, North Carolina and Alabama have variations of them

Earlier this week a councilman proposed a city wide broadband network for Los Angeles and if approved will be the largest broadband run by a municipality in the nation. They plan on modeling it after Chattanooga, currently the gold standard for a well run, affordable community provided broadband network.

Our town has had fiber optics from Greenlight for at least 7 or 8 years. TWC/Comcast has been trying to get that removed for just as long. I'm not a big fan of local govt running utilities like it does here but I like that we have a fiber network in this shitty little town

Did you see that Google is removing searches for "Kodi?"

I didn't

that is a little surprising. I do know that some of the older standards were shut down but new ones took their place 2 weeks later.

I'm setting up some fire sticks for relatives this weekend with Kodi

Jungle Rat wrote:https://genesight.com

Gonna try it. You weird psycho idiots might want to try it too. Praying to an American Cheese head looking President isnt working so far. Go ahead. Fire me too.

keep me posted on it.

eCat wrote:interesting story this morning on the challenge of having a free internet in China.

The gist of the story was that China has firewalls in place and people have to play this cat and mouse game of using VPNs to get around them, The firewall prevents access to hundreds of sites that China deems inappropriate from politics, porn, and business.

The end of the story referenced a man who moved to Hong Kong solely for the internet access which is still relatively free from draconian Chinese rule.

That got me thinking about Net Neutrality. To me its not so far fetched to believe that if tiered systems were put into place with the repeal of net neutrality, just like schools and public transportation, public internet will be a consideration when moving to a community.

I looked into it a bit and 21 states currently have regulations against local governments developing or allowing competing broadband. Ohio and Kentucky have yet to implement these laws, North Carolina and Alabama have variations of them

Earlier this week a councilman proposed a city wide broadband network for Los Angeles and if approved will be the largest broadband run by a municipality in the nation. They plan on modeling it after Chattanooga, currently the gold standard for a well run, affordable community provided broadband network.

Interesting thought about internet being a public service consideration when moving to bigger cities. The problem is there's nothing to keep these local governments from doing the same thing that the ISP's will do now that net neutrality is on the chopping block, which is to control access to content. What your typical brainwashed rightie is too stupid to understand is that regulation, in this case that which prohibits fascist control of and encourages open access to information, is a necessary part of balancing our society. Nope. In their minds "all regulation is bad because a few dozen paid shills told me so". It's like they've never opened a history book and fail to grasp basic problems posed by the power vacuums that their small government nonsense would bring about. But alas, we live in a bizarro world where good things that protect the little guy like labor unions and limits on campaign contributions are routinely turned into bad things by massive propaganda campaigns. That whole thing about the pen being mightier than the sword is true and we've been seeing it firsthand for over a century.

so far its not the internet providers that are controlling the content - its the companies - youtube, google, facebook - all have become politically driven and control content based on the ideology of their political affiliation

eCat wrote:so far its not the internet providers that are controlling the content - its the companies - youtube, google, facebook - all have become politically driven and control content based on the ideology of their political affiliation

The ISP's are trying to take control. But you're right it's an odd issue where billionaires are fighting billionaires. Normally they're more or less aligned but this is a glaring exception. Your guess is as good as mine as to how serious they take this.

eCat wrote:I didn't

that is a little surprising. I do know that some of the older standards were shut down but new ones took their place 2 weeks later.

I'm setting up some fire sticks for relatives this weekend with Kodi

We've had to completely reset the channels or whatever they're called on Kodi at least 3 times since we got the Fire stick about a year ago. Sometimes they work upstairs but if I move it downstairs, I can't get shit

London has overtaken New York City’s murder rate for the first time in contemporary history as the capital has been overwhelmed with a spate of stabbings.

While London remains substantially the safer city overall, with less than half the homicides of New York last year, according to a new report a recent spike in knife cirme meant February was the first month the UK capital was home to more murders than the US city.

London has endured a significant increase in knife crime, with 15 dying in February, nine of whom were aged 30 or younger. Meanwhile 14 were killed in the Big Apple.

London also suffered 22 fatal stabbings and shootings in March, higher than the 21 which took place in New York, according to the report in the Sunday Times.

Both cities have populations of similar sizes which are around 8.5 million people. While New York City’s murder rate has gone down – decreasing by around 87 per cent since the 1990s – the Big Smoke’s has simultaneously surged. London’s has increased by nearly 40 per cent in the space of three years alone – not including deaths caused by terrorist attacks.

Ban knives.

Next

you don't have to be that radical

lets just ban assault knives. That should solve the problem.

You're probably joking...but the one notice plastered all over the border control entrance at Heathrow warns that you can no longer bring in "Zombie knives."

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if that is for real, I have many questions

It's real, that's not my pic, but I saw it in person.

lets just ban assault knives. That should solve the problem.

An assault knife has a notch on it where you can attach a rifle, or has a pistol grip, or can stab multiple people.