The Information Age is over. The Internet will become pay-to-access and over 99% of all websites will be blocked or throttled. This is our future. Make no mistake, this will happen. Prepare now. Here’s a brief list of things you need to do ASAP. This list should not be considered exhaustive:
Get at least two external hard drives, but you may need even more depending on how much you need to download. You are going to download EVERYTHING on the Internet that’s even remotely important to you and back it up. You will likely spend at least $150-$200 on this, but it will pay enormously to have the peace of mind.
Get every single bit of personal information off NOW! Anything you store on “the cloud” like Flickr or Google Drive, you need to get off immediately. You will likely not be able to access it later. A brief list of sites to scrub would include: family photo albums, banking/financial information, social media accounts, any shopping sites or anything that has your credit card information such as Amazon, etc. Download anything you can think of to your external hard drives, back it up, and delete it from the Internet as best as you’re able.
Upload NOTHING to the Internet from here on out that you might want to take down later. You can lose access to any website at any time. This is how you must use the new post-Information Age Internet from now on.
Start downloading any websites or things of interest that you use. Especially small personal sites or obscure webpages. Remember, you can’t assume that search engines will turn up any sites you want. In fact, you can’t assume search engines will even be around anymore. What is there to search for when 99% of the Internet is blocked? You’ll have a small list of sites that your ISP offers and that’s it. A good first start is Wikipedia. It’s not perfect, but it’s one of the best sources for general knowledge available. The file size isn’t as big as you might expect (though still big at around 20 GBs) because it’s mostly text. Update this every month or so, especially if your ISP makes noises about throttling or blocking it. Download an offline version of a mapping service like Google Earth or Maps and update it frequently as well.
Download any porn you like to watch. Yes, your porn is definitely in danger. No ISP wants to be seen “supporting” porn so they will likely block this before anything else.
Start pirating any music, movies, tv shows, games, etc, that you enjoy. Whatever your prior feelings were about piracy, fuck them. Your Internet is about to die and your access to everything you enjoy as well. Internet piracy is about to be a thing of the past anyway, so indulge yourself now while you can. Alternatively, you could buy everything to download, but that just seems ridiculous in light of the fact that your Internet prices are going to go up to access the exact same shit you did before. Think of it as debt that you’ll make up by paying at least 50-250 extra dollars a month for the rest of your life. A little “piracy” seems justified to me.
If you have an online business, I honestly don’t know what the fuck to tell you, except to offer my condolences that your livelihood is about to be stripped away. You should be in survival mode right now. Keep in mind that different ISPs will support and block different sites. You could be blocked on one, throttled on another, and have the fast lane on another. Either way, you will very likely lose business unless you bribe most of the ISPs. We’ll find out details in the coming months and years on exactly how they’ll fuck over small businesses. For now, just breathe. This likely won’t happen all at once, so you have some time to get your affairs in order. Brick and mortar stores that the Internet replaced will likely start to make a comeback, so if you can, start thinking about making a transition.
Get a VPN and learn how to use it. This will likely be made illegal in the near future, but for now, this is your last line of defense against the ISPs. Even here, don’t upload anything you want to take down later. There are free ones, but a good one will run you some dollars per month, but it’s still cheaper than the prices you’ll soon start paying for Internet, and you’ll have access to everything you did before, albeit much slower. You don’t have to use this for everything (yet), but you at least need to be familiar with it.
Stay informed. Here’s a brief list of sites that support Net Neutrality: https://www.battleforthenet.com/. https://www.savetheinternet.com/. https://www.publicknowledge.org/. https://dearfcc.org/. http://www.theopeninter.net/. Don’t expect these to stay up forever. You may consider downloading any relevant information from them. Keep in mind that throttling and blocking will likely happen slowly at first. The ISPs will be very tricky and in many cases, it may even start out imperceptibly. If a frog is put into cool water that slowly heats up, it will die before it knows what happened, whereas it will jump out if the water immediately switches to boiling. I suspect this is the strategy the majority of the ISPs will take. It will happen gradually over many months and years until we slowly accept the new restricted Internet. This is the main reason to remain very aware of exactly what the ISPs are doing and to call bullshit on every single thing, even if it initially seems minor.
Stay vigilant. Even now, this isn’t over. The majority of America is with us, and public outrage will bring those numbers even higher.
This is a fight that at least we have strong public support for. Start campaigning, keep calling your representatives, keep the discussion alive everywhere on the Internet before they block it. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
EDIT: I remember meeting Ajit Pai at a party for the first time. He walked up to me, shook my hand, and introduced himself: "You know, even though niggers are only 13% of the United States population, they account for over 80% of the violent crimes. Nigger chimps are subhuman scum that need to be shipped back to Africa." Then he offered me some coke. I didn't accept it, partly because I didn't have any money, but mostly because he wanted me to use his asshole as a straw.
You're talking about a technologically underdeveloped website that uses up such a minuscule amount of ISP resources that the potential financial gain is non-existent and the pr nightmare that would result would place any offending ISP squarely in the cross-hairs of a bunch of poltards.
Websites fitting this description constitute 90% of my internet browsing. Sure, my torrenting habit is fucked, but I knew that for a long time anyway and will probably still be able to use a VPN to get around it.
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1 Matues49 2017-12-14
The Information Age is over. The Internet will become pay-to-access and over 99% of all websites will be blocked or throttled. This is our future. Make no mistake, this will happen. Prepare now. Here’s a brief list of things you need to do ASAP. This list should not be considered exhaustive:
Get at least two external hard drives, but you may need even more depending on how much you need to download. You are going to download EVERYTHING on the Internet that’s even remotely important to you and back it up. You will likely spend at least $150-$200 on this, but it will pay enormously to have the peace of mind.
Get every single bit of personal information off NOW! Anything you store on “the cloud” like Flickr or Google Drive, you need to get off immediately. You will likely not be able to access it later. A brief list of sites to scrub would include: family photo albums, banking/financial information, social media accounts, any shopping sites or anything that has your credit card information such as Amazon, etc. Download anything you can think of to your external hard drives, back it up, and delete it from the Internet as best as you’re able.
Upload NOTHING to the Internet from here on out that you might want to take down later. You can lose access to any website at any time. This is how you must use the new post-Information Age Internet from now on.
Start downloading any websites or things of interest that you use. Especially small personal sites or obscure webpages. Remember, you can’t assume that search engines will turn up any sites you want. In fact, you can’t assume search engines will even be around anymore. What is there to search for when 99% of the Internet is blocked? You’ll have a small list of sites that your ISP offers and that’s it. A good first start is Wikipedia. It’s not perfect, but it’s one of the best sources for general knowledge available. The file size isn’t as big as you might expect (though still big at around 20 GBs) because it’s mostly text. Update this every month or so, especially if your ISP makes noises about throttling or blocking it. Download an offline version of a mapping service like Google Earth or Maps and update it frequently as well.
Download any porn you like to watch. Yes, your porn is definitely in danger. No ISP wants to be seen “supporting” porn so they will likely block this before anything else. Start pirating any music, movies, tv shows, games, etc, that you enjoy. Whatever your prior feelings were about piracy, fuck them. Your Internet is about to die and your access to everything you enjoy as well. Internet piracy is about to be a thing of the past anyway, so indulge yourself now while you can. Alternatively, you could buy everything to download, but that just seems ridiculous in light of the fact that your Internet prices are going to go up to access the exact same shit you did before. Think of it as debt that you’ll make up by paying at least 50-250 extra dollars a month for the rest of your life. A little “piracy” seems justified to me.
If you have an online business, I honestly don’t know what the fuck to tell you, except to offer my condolences that your livelihood is about to be stripped away. You should be in survival mode right now. Keep in mind that different ISPs will support and block different sites. You could be blocked on one, throttled on another, and have the fast lane on another. Either way, you will very likely lose business unless you bribe most of the ISPs. We’ll find out details in the coming months and years on exactly how they’ll fuck over small businesses. For now, just breathe. This likely won’t happen all at once, so you have some time to get your affairs in order. Brick and mortar stores that the Internet replaced will likely start to make a comeback, so if you can, start thinking about making a transition.
Get a VPN and learn how to use it. This will likely be made illegal in the near future, but for now, this is your last line of defense against the ISPs. Even here, don’t upload anything you want to take down later. There are free ones, but a good one will run you some dollars per month, but it’s still cheaper than the prices you’ll soon start paying for Internet, and you’ll have access to everything you did before, albeit much slower. You don’t have to use this for everything (yet), but you at least need to be familiar with it. Stay informed. Here’s a brief list of sites that support Net Neutrality: https://www.battleforthenet.com/. https://www.savetheinternet.com/. https://www.publicknowledge.org/. https://dearfcc.org/. http://www.theopeninter.net/. Don’t expect these to stay up forever. You may consider downloading any relevant information from them. Keep in mind that throttling and blocking will likely happen slowly at first. The ISPs will be very tricky and in many cases, it may even start out imperceptibly. If a frog is put into cool water that slowly heats up, it will die before it knows what happened, whereas it will jump out if the water immediately switches to boiling. I suspect this is the strategy the majority of the ISPs will take. It will happen gradually over many months and years until we slowly accept the new restricted Internet. This is the main reason to remain very aware of exactly what the ISPs are doing and to call bullshit on every single thing, even if it initially seems minor. Stay vigilant. Even now, this isn’t over. The majority of America is with us, and public outrage will bring those numbers even higher.
This is a fight that at least we have strong public support for. Start campaigning, keep calling your representatives, keep the discussion alive everywhere on the Internet before they block it. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
EDIT: I remember meeting Ajit Pai at a party for the first time. He walked up to me, shook my hand, and introduced himself: "You know, even though niggers are only 13% of the United States population, they account for over 80% of the violent crimes. Nigger chimps are subhuman scum that need to be shipped back to Africa." Then he offered me some coke. I didn't accept it, partly because I didn't have any money, but mostly because he wanted me to use his asshole as a straw.
1 shallowm 2017-12-14
Where is this from?
1 incineratechicken 2017-12-14
Probably a wise decision, what with all those crypto-hate subs out there.
1 incineratechicken 2017-12-14
Websites fitting this description constitute 90% of my internet browsing. Sure, my torrenting habit is fucked, but I knew that for a long time anyway and will probably still be able to use a VPN to get around it.