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"access equality" 😂 Mkay.

Here's the reality: is proposed and supported by people who don't understand the internet's infrastructure, how it works, and the importance of consumer choice. It demands all websites have the same speeds, and makes "fast lanes" and "slow lanes" illegal. Two problems with this:

1. It gives ISPs and the government the ability to arbitrarily slow down all network speeds, so long as they charge any arbitrary price, so long as everyone pays the same price. And because "muh equality", "fast lanes" would technically be "discrimination based on price" and not necessarily an option for everyone.

2. Equal bandwidth for all sites means that a site like fanfiction.net gets the same bandwidth as Netflix and YouTube. Do I really need to explain why this is bad? Probably. Streaming video takes up a far greater bandwidth than text or images. Netflix getting higher bandwidth than sites like fanfiction.net or Project Gutenberg isn't inequality, but rather the ISPs responsibly meeting the needs of both customers and websites alike. It may sound nice to be able to wish everybody have lightning fast speeds, but tech infrastructures cannot just give all websites Netflix levels of speeds; so, if they were forced to give everyone the same speeds, then they would most likely just slow everything down.

@OrganicNectar96@mstdn.social @Ox Same here friend. You can always reach out if you need help or want to talk.

People crowded on boardwalks, partied in lakes and packed into water parks around the country during Memorial Day Weekend as all states have lifted social distancing in some way on.forbes.com/6019GDuCN  by @iamsternlicht twitter.com/Forbes/status/1265
#Forbes

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Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest round of modifications to California's stay-at-home order allows for places of worship and retailers to reopen – albeit with precautions.

These new guidelines suggest less singing, fewer congregations and no communion. trib.al/NN393XN  twitter.com/npr/status/1265258
#NPR #California

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We'll also be releasing a new pleroma version that will fix a particularly bad query...
@djsumdog @mewmew @liaizon Not really specific laws but more like preventing possible harm from cyberbullying. Someone has committed suicide and mstdn.jp is asked to take part of the legal responsibility. It might be a long process and the instance might be regulated much more stricter if that's the case. So the managers of mstdn.jp decided to shut it down cuz they just can't handle it anymore.

@djsumdog @mewmew looks like it

Hey @noellabo any help with explaining what is going on and if there is ways we can help this situation

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