Luckily my government has bigger issues than that (like this), and I'm sure that's the case in many countries. So I'm hoping it won't come to that.

I don't think that a politician being carried around in a rubber raft qualifies as a "big issue".

I mean the floods and other not only natural "disasters"

I was under the the impression that support for TPP among those that mattered was dwindling. Most of what I’ve seen covering it in recent months has read like this article by the Huffington Post.

I’ll do a bit more research to make sure I haven’t been getting an overly optimistic view of the situation, but there’s not exactly a lot a we mere private citizens can really do about the matter either way.

Fortunately, I think at least in here in Finland there was already an opposite ruling like a year ago, where some ISP (I think Sonera) wanted to give higher priority to its own services, instead of competing services. They were told by the powers that be not to do that, they should be agnostic on providing bandwidth to different internet services (meaning, similar kinds of, but competing services; naturally some data is always prioritized over some less important data, but the ISPs should not use it in order to hurt competition).

I hope that net neutrality remains here too.

Now I'm conflicted, I usually think of The Pirate Party when seeing that acronym.

UK is already the Orwellian experiment, so no different for me at all.

Simple solution to this problem. Fling poo at every CCTV camera you see. :P

Didn't see that, thanks for the link! I added it and another one to the OP!

fuck that!
lad I went to school with runs the operations room here.
i can guarantee unless hes forced, he does not want to see my fizzog on camera! heheh

Aren't ISPs already watching us with that Copyright Alert thing?

Yes.

pfff... consider me not surprised. Those slimey failure fucktards of human evolution whose brainchild that is will come up with this crap again and again and again until either some court has enough and slams them down so massively and hard enough that the following expenses are to hard for everybody to ever try something similar again (highly unlikely) or till they got what they want since puplic gets tired of raging again and again against the same thing that get to be shut down just to pop up with a new name and just different worded enough to be considered new enough to try again.

I knew SOPA would come back to haunt us again; evil never sleeps, unfortunately. It's how politicians work when trying to implement something the precious few want but is hurting the interests of everybody else. If attempt one is shut down, they'll repackage it and try again later when there is less coverage on it (not that there was much in this case, the press has this uncanny ability to not speak up if something is important), and hope there is less resistance this time so they can force through their undemocratic policies or laws.

Hopefully we'll be able to shut down this effort too. Net Neutrality is very important, and turning the entire internet over to NSAweb is hardly a great thing.

Thanks for letting us know about this important development.