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goobster  ·  2605 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump’s F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules

I personally am looking forward to the day when I get to pay for packages of internet sites, like current cable tv channel offerings.

I can pay for the "Informed" package, and get access to web sites like NPR, NASA, Reuters, and Encyclopedia Brittanica. The fundraising campaign ads before every site loads is a minor annoyance, but ya know, you gotta support these sites somehow.

And then I can pay for the "Basic Entertainment" package, and get YouTube (with ads), and FaceBook Basic (no ability to create Events, or make comments longer than 140 chars), and the IMDb "Trailers" site.

Oh! And my kids will be able to get access to the Creation Station for free, a religiously-funded history feed, where good, white, Christian kids can do research on history's inevitable progression from unsophisticated dark-skinned cave-people to Modern America's shining pinnacle of the triumph of meritorious equality.

It's too bad that you can only get the "Progressive Package" at 128kb/sec, but if you wait long enough, you can get to a network of BBS's that post wild liberal fantasies, like something called "National Parks", and "Polar Bears". The connection is spotty, and images mostly only load in 8-bit, but if you squint you can make out the images pretty well.

I sure am happy with my Net Neutrality package! I get all the information I need for a low fee of $120/mo.

The internet sure is an amazing modern tool of information!