Originally Posted by
RadioGod
So net neutrality isn't about privacy? Net neutrality is about ISP's providing access to all web traffic equally. The regulations the FCC had in support of that just got revoked. So net neutrality is no longer a reality in the US anymore. Along with net neutrality, other rules were rescinded, such as the reasonable expectation of privacy with any device connected to the internet. All ISP's and all 3rd party apps or other parties with access to your personal information, like medical records, driving records, phone records, even conversations you have in your own home in front of your smart tv, IOT device, or cell phone, etc., are now no longer private.
So, yes, the net neutrality regulations that got rolled back have everything to do with privacy. Or, should I say, it has everything to do with making all of us more of a commodity than we already were, where our entire lives get summed up and calculated out, in real time, and used to expand the profit making scope of some already rich and thoughtless b*stards.
About our oil, it should be ours. So is our own front yards. But if I live in an HOA neihgborhood, even though the yard is mine, someone else controls it. They even charge me for excercising control over it. Our oil resources are much the same. Most of our oil business is managed by non-US based companies or multinational corporations that happen to have an office in the US. Don't believe the commercials that show an american bald eagle soaring freely and majestically through the clear blue US skies and talk about how many american jobs they bring in and how much they love you. That is the propaganda. That is fabrication day. They will frack your backyard and hose you down with toxic fumes and even when you can light your water on fire, they will claim you are crazy and un-american to even mention it. And even worse, they will go out to some party with all their business freinds and joke about the idiots who were twitching on tv from benzene destroying their nervous system.
I live in an area where I have personally seen a thousand fold increase in logging trucks hauling trees out of BLM, state, and national forests. This just started this early spring. They usually run in small bursts as forestry contracts are bid on and OK'ed for logging. Now they have run non-stop for over 2 months. The local lumber yard has started looking like old pictures from the clear cutting of the 1890's to 1930's. And on top of that, the lumber prices at the yard have doubled, even though it's being cut and processed right next door, from trees right down the road. Don't be suprised when it costs $100 for a 2"x 4" when we have no more trees in a couple years. This is totally because Trump has rolled back protections and regulations that tried to keep runaway plundering in check.