<2023-02-21T09:00:19.000Z> cyclonebee: Hey Jersh, long time listener, first time callerWould you like to hop on discord for a moment to talk about net neutrality and section 230 with someone who's somewhat influential on the other aisle of the discussion? He can't disclose what parties he briefs on the subject because of NDA's but his company has previously briefed the white house among others. 
<2023-02-21T09:06:06.000Z> cyclonebee: He's very anti-NN and hopes section 230 will be enforced further in the upcoming supreme court hearing. If you're up to a light spar with a chance that anything you say will have an impact on the big I Internet, hit me up!  
<2023-02-21T11:18:49.000Z> josh: >discord
<2023-02-21T11:18:58.000Z> josh: i mean it depends on entirely who it is and what the context is
<2023-02-21T11:19:03.000Z> josh: i'm not jumping on discord to do anything 
<2023-02-21T11:32:22.000Z> cyclonebee: >i mean it depends on entirely who it is and what the context isLike I said, a consultant for lawmakers who staunchly believes that net neutrality is a Google psyop and briefs lawmakers and companies accordingly
<2023-02-21T11:36:01.000Z> cyclonebee: And the context is that we both play Magic the Gathering and in our little MTG discord I had an autism attack trying to persuade him to consider that maybe net neutrality isn't just a big tech psyop, that maybe revoking NN was a mistake and maybe net neutrality is a needed thing for small businesses to operate via AWS and to stop it from becoming a new vector for internet censorship 
<2023-02-21T11:37:08.000Z> cyclonebee: I speak English as a third language and I have fuck-all knowledge about US law so I'm not the most heccen valid person to try to persuade a lawyer to reconsider his stance about US law
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<2023-02-21T21:19:06.000Z> josh: I don't really have any investment in your friend. I don't care what he thinks and I believe the Internet is already doomed. I don't really want to spend my entire life trying to convince retards to stop shooting themselves in the foot.
<2023-02-21T21:20:34.000Z> josh: In the United States, residential ISP Comcast (which is the same company as Tier 1 Internet backbone "Lumen") blackholed connections to my network. Direct customers of Comcast where not able to access a specific website because of political decisions Comcast had made.
<2023-02-21T21:21:03.000Z> josh: In addition, the many small ISPs that exist all use large Tier 1 ISPs for international transit. BumfuckTelecomm does not have an undersea cable to Germany, so they use companies like Lumen. When they blocked us, they also blocked many smaller ISPs that relied on Lumen. I had to instruct many people on how to inform their ISP that Lumen was prohibiting them from connecting to a website.
<2023-02-21T21:22:00.000Z> josh: This was not legal and would have been a direct violation of FCC regulations prior to Trump instructing his former Verizon CEO FCC Chair to repeal FCC regulations that Verizon itself had been suing to get rid of for literally decades at that point.
<2023-02-21T21:22:34.000Z> josh: In states that do have net neutrality, customers of these ISPs filed complaints with their state counterparts to the FCC.
<2023-02-21T21:22:58.000Z> josh: Some combination of customer complaints, client ISP complaints, and state-level NN regulators caused Comcast to flip. When they blocked us again, it was flipped again. There was some huge internal disturbance causing this.
<2023-02-21T21:23:32.000Z> josh: There are many T1s that refuse to announce my ISPs. They do not blackhole traffic, but they refuse to let my ISP (Terrahost) announce my ISPs through them. So in short, I am cut off from the global Internet in some places.
<2023-02-21T21:24:18.000Z> josh: A law saying that telecom providers CAN NOT make these decisions is a GOOD THING because 1) it means they can't do it, and 2) when people threaten them with death and rape and defamation if they don't block a network, they can just say "I legally cannot, sorry." and that person is not likely to continue the attack knowing they CAN'T make that decisiion.
<2023-02-21T21:24:58.000Z> cyclonebee: Aight, cheers for this anyways! I'm going to pass this forward and I hope that he'll use his unique position for good 
<2023-02-21T21:25:00.000Z> josh: Matthew Prince SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED to make decisions about traffic through his networks, nor should any ISP. Because GIVING HIM THE OPTION TO means that he is the prime target for direct harassment, criminal intimidation, and other forms of pressure that now exist to censor the Internet.
<2023-02-21T21:25:08.000Z> josh: Also, as a publicly traded company, he can be compelled by his board.
<2023-02-21T21:25:31.000Z> josh: In a world where Net Neutrality makes this action illegal, this dillema does not exist. This is how it should be.
<2023-02-21T21:25:41.000Z> josh: tell your friend he's a fat nigger and i hope he dies of his aids
<2023-02-21T21:26:58.000Z> cyclonebee: > tell your friend he's a fat nigger and i hope he dies of his aids_daily_