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#Policies of neutrality

neutralityday · 5 months

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Provide impartial mediation to help prevent and de-escalate conflicts.

The United Nations provides impartial mediation to help prevent and de-escalate conflict.

Tuesday is the International Day of Neutrality.

#impartial mediation #International Day of Neutrality #12 december #Policies of neutrality #preventive diplomacy #conflicts prevention #peace and security #sustainingpeace #neutrality

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manyminded · 16 days

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y’know, we aren’t endo. but we definitely still lean pro-endo. even if we are traumagenic, we’ll still be getting fakeclaimed, because we aren’t disordered. isn’t that funny? I’m almost there. I’m so close. Yet, I’ll never be accepted. At least pro-endos will believe I exist.

yes, we try to remain syscourse neutral. we want to get out of the pro-endo side of syscourse - we want to hear you out! we want to understand where you’re coming from! getting out of the echo chamber is essential. our main goal is to connect our community. syscourse runs so rampant, it’s hard to find others like you. it’s so awful to be here and that isn’t right. we need to change it!

still. sometimes I’m tired. maybe I just wanna be around people who won’t fuck me over, I guess. at least part of the time.

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mostlysignssomeportents · 6 months

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Big Telco’s fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts

I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!

Reality has a distinct anti-conservative bias, but conservatives have an answer: when the facts don't support your policies, just get different facts. Who needs evidence-based policy when you can have policy-based evidence?

Take gun violence. Conservatives tell us that "an armed society is a polite society," which means that the more guns you have, the less gun violence you'll experience. To prevent reality from unfairly staining this pristine ideological mind-palace with facts, conservatives passed the Dickey Amendment, which had the effect of banning the CDC from gathering stats on American gun-violence. No stats, no violence!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment

Policy-based evidence is at the core of so many cherished conservative beliefs, like the idea that queer people (and not youth pastors) are responsible for the sexual abuse of children, or the idea that minimum wages (and not monopolies) decrease jobs, or the idea that socialized medicine (and not private equity) leads to death panels:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

The Biden administration features a sizable cohort of effective regulators, whose job is to gather evidence and then make policy from it:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis

Fortunately for conservatives, not every Biden agency is led by competent, honest brokers – the finance wing of the Dems got to foist some of their most ghoulish members upon the American people, including a no-fooling cheerleader for mass foreclosure:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/06/personnel-are-policy/#janice-eberly

And these same DINOs reached across the aisle to work with Republicans to keep some of the most competent, principled agency leaders from being seated, like the remarkable Gigi Sohn, targeted by a homophobic smear campaign funded by the telco industry, who feared her presence on the FCC:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/culture-war-bullshit-stole-your-broadband/

The telcos are old hands at this stuff. Long before the gun control debates, Ma Bell had figured out that a monopoly over Americans' telecoms was a license to print money, and they set to corrupting agencies from the FCC to the DoJ:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/14/jam-to-day/

Reality has a vicious anti-telco bias. Think of Net Neutrality, the idea that if you pay an ISP for internet service, they should make a best effort to deliver the data you request, rather than deliberately slowing down your connection in the hopes that you'll seek out data from the company's preferred partners, who've paid a bribe for "premium delivery."

This shouldn't even be up for debate. The idea that your ISP should prioritize its preferred data over your preferred data is as absurd as the idea that a taxi-driver should slow down your rides to any pizzeria except Domino's, which has paid it for "premium service." If your cabbie circled the block twice every time you asked for a ride to Massimo's Pizza, you'd be rightly pissed – and the cab company would be fined.

Back when Ajit Pai was Trump's FCC chairman, he made killing Net Neutrality his top priority. But regulators aren't allowed to act without evidence, so Pai had to seek out as much policy-based evidence as he could. To that end, Pai allowed millions of obviously fake comments to be entered into the docket (comments from dead people, one million comments from @pornhub.com address, comments from sitting Senators who disavowed them, etc). Then Pai actively – and illegally – obstructed the NY Attorney General's investigation into the fraud:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#pais-lies

The pursuit of policy-based evidence is greatly aided by the absence of real evidence. If you're gonna fill the docket with made-up nonsense, it helps if there's no truthful stuff in there to get in the way. To that end, the FCC has systematically avoided collecting data on American broadband delivery, collecting as little objective data as possible:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pandemic-profiteers/#flying-blind

This willful ignorance was a huge boon to the telcos, who demanded billions in fed subsidies for "underserved areas" and then just blew it on anything they felt like – like the $45 billion of public money they wasted on obsolete copper wiring for rural "broadband" expansion under Trump:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/all-broadband-politics-are-local/

Like other cherished conservative delusions, the unsupportable fantasy that private industry is better at rolling out broadband is hugely consequential. Before the pandemic, this meant that America – the birthplace of the internet – had the slowest, most expensive internet service of any G8 country. During the lockdown, broadband deserts meant that millions of poor and rural Americans were cut off from employment, education, health care and family:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/12/ajit-pai/#pai

Pai's response was to commit another $8 billion in public funds to broadband expansion, but without any idea of where the broadband deserts were – just handing more money over to monopoly telcos to spend as they see fit, with zero accountability:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pandemic-profiteers/#flying-blind

All that changed after the 2020 election. Pai was removed from office (and immediately blocked me on Twitter) (oh, diddums), and his successor, Biden FCC chair Jessic Rosenworcel, started gathering evidence, soliciting your broadband complaints:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/23/parliament-of-landlords/#fcc

And even better, your broadband speed measurements:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#fly-my-pretties

All that evidence spurred Congress to act. In 2021, Congress ordered the FCC to investigate and punish discrimination in internet service provision, "based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin":

https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ58/PLAW-117publ58.pdf

In other words, Congress ordered the FCC to crack down on "digital redlining." That's when historic patterns of underinvestment in majority Black neighborhoods and other underserved communities create broadband deserts, where internet service is slower and more expensive than service literally across the street:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/flicc/#digital-divide

FCC Chair Rosenworcel has published the agency's plan for fulfilling this obligation. It's pretty straightforward: they're going to collect data on pricing, speed and other key service factors, and punish companies that practice discrimination:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/preventing-digital-discrimination-broadband-internet-access

This has provoked howls of protests from the ISP cartel, their lobbying org, and their Republican pals on the FCC. Writing for Ars Technica, Jon Brodkin rounds up a selection of these objections:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/internet-providers-say-the-fcc-should-not-investigate-broadband-prices/

There's GOP FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, with a Steve Bannon-seque condemnation of "the administrative state [taking] effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the US. He's especially pissed that the FCC is going to regulate big landlords who force all their tenants to get slow, expensive from ISPs who offer kickbacks to landlords:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/carr-opposes-bidens-internet-plan

The response from telco lobbyists NCTA is particularly, nakedly absurd: they demand that the FCC exempt price from consideration of whether an ISP is practicing discrimination, calling prices a "non-technical aspect of broadband service":

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/110897268295/1

I mean, sure – it's easy to prove that an ISP doesn't discriminate against customers if you don't ask how much they charge! "Sure, you live in a historically underserved neighborhood, but technically we'll give you a 100mb fiber connection, provided you give us $20m to install it."

This is a profoundly stupid demand, but that didn't stop the wireless lobbying org CTIA from chiming in with the same talking points, demanding that the FCC drop plans to collect data on "pricing, deposits, discounts, and data caps," evaluation of price is unnecessary in the competitive wireless marketplace":

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1107735021925/1

Individual cartel members weighed in as well, with AT&T and Verizon threatening to sue over the rules, joined by yet another lobbying group, USTelecom:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1103655327582/1

The next step in this playbook is whipping up the low-information base by calling this "socialism" and mobilizing some of the worst-served, most-gouged people in America to shoot themselves in the face (again), to own the libs:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/15/useful-idiotsuseful-idiots/#unrequited-love

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/10/digital-redlining/#stop-confusing-the-issue-with-relevant-facts

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tam--lin · 2 months

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Planet Fitness revoking the membership of someone who took a picture of a trans woman using the women's locker room is truly a "worst person gym you know makes a great point" situation.

#like. I would never feel welcome in a planet fitness because of my beloved powerlifting. but at least they have written pro-trans policies?#tamlin's gym tag #are we gonna cancel co-ed dorms next #just fully go Shaker #this one transphobe was like “all they need is gender neutral bathrooms” bro you are SO close.!!!

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dysphoric-culture-is · 2 years

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dysphoric culture is your school refusing to have x markers in student management or even just using gender neutral language on their forms

Dysphoric culture is!

Also, yup sometimes schools just intentionally ignore and exclude their students and it sucks and you just have to wait to graduate/go to a better school.

The use of ‘refusing’ here leads mod to believe that this has brought up to the school and they’re being intentionally exorsexist (something mod deals with in school as well) but hopefully they’ll change their ways eventually anon! And maybe you can join/make a GSA in the meantime?

#mod’s school has a trans inclusive nondiscrimination policy. supposedly #but their forms and curriculum are not trans inclusive at all and school staff are purposely trans exclusionary #so yeah #dysphoria tw #gender dysphoria #dysphoria #dysphoric culture is #x marker #gender neutral language #trans inclusion #nonbinary #trans students #trans #queer #lgbtq #lgbt+

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batsarebetterthanpeople · 1 year

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The way the American government treats drugs is so stupid dude. "Meth is ok but only when used to sedate unruly neurodivergent four year olds. If an adult consents to take it of their own volition with the intent to get high they go to jail for the rest of their lives." Like what????

#antipsychiatry #I say antipsychiatry I'm actually psychiatry neutral #critical of the way psychiatry is imposed but I think psychiatric drugs can be good for people #drug posting #just like if you give meth to someone under dubious consent circumstances that's fine but don't you dare take it of your own free will #no fun allowed ass drug policy

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mulaplateada · 6 months

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milei also promised to move the arg embassy to jerusalem btw i feel like killing myself rn

#most ppl who oppose this policy oppose it solely cause they care about argentina maintaining neutrality lmao #zionism sadly is fairly popular

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impossible-rat-babies · 1 year

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thinking about eyrie and love and hmmmm they aren’t…afraid of love as much as they are afraid of the power of love. Afraid of how blinding it is, the all encompassing way it feels and the drive to protect that comes from it. It’s those feelings that drove them to become and imperial—blinded them to the wrongs they were doing even though they knew from the start that what they were doing was never going to protect anyone. Not their homeland, not their children—not even the ones they didn’t know had survived childbirth. (which that is a terrifying thought they bury wayyyu deep down).

they made those mistakes out of a false sense of hope and the idea of doing the right thing, because protecting the people you love is always the correct thing to do. They protect the forest, but more their people within—a duty driven into their head since they were in their early teens. Eyrie loves—they love fiercely and beyond reckoning, but at the same time they are terrified of those feelings. What they might do for love and if they’ll regret those choices later. They’ll have the time to look back and regret it half a century later. Eyrie is troubled and regretful of their past, but they stand so immovable as to not make a mistake again. which means they don’t move forward; they’re guarded, they distance themselves behind a veneer. They fool themselves into stagnation being the better of the options. I don’t think they truly know how to move forward much anymore

#oc: eyrie kisne #which….hmmm gonna say some spoiler stuff so uhh #owen ffxiv spoilers #but there’s all of this they have going on standing in stark contrast to DRK #all that it encompasses being something eyrie is terrified of and it’s the power held within love #that and fray screaming instead for someone to #see—someone to notice that there is something or rather anything is wrong #they make my brain itch I love eyrie #completely different topic though: eyrie does take leave of Mohr Dona once the crystal braves are established #they had a mild argument with Minfilia about them taking their leave once the idea was brought up #they don’t want any part in the crystal braves—the whole thing while good intentioned #is Bad. yes pls give the scions of the seventh Dawn a standing army. it will be fine!#y’all remember the policy of neutrality? talking about neutrality when the coffers of the braves are lined w ul’dah riches #they don’t like any of it and they go off to find alisasie

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wutheringmights · 2 years

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🤣 yeah sorry first impressions are everything as they say!!

I am not used to kids lying as children because no one lied really where I grew up, but you are right that’s a kid thing and I should of found a better example. Maybe I’ll do a deep psychoanalysis but usually I’m too busy having Wars brain rot after each chapter lmao

I can’t wait for the next chapter to get psychologically fucked up! I am still hoping Warriors at least finds out how to cope with his very very big chungus issues or make amends with some of the crew at the very least. But I’m not keeping my hopes too high…

Well maybe I'm the weird one for thinking it's natural that kids lie. Someone who was once a child should come in and fact check this for me.

But the more important thing here is that you have just accused Warriors of having "big chungus issues," and I am not sure if I am ever going to be able to refer to them as anything else ever again

#that's going to enter my vocabulary now rip #also no sweat anon you don't need to do a deep analysis #my policy for the What Kind of Character Is Wars debate is to argue against whatever the current argument is #so if someone says he's sympathetic. i bring up how much of an ass he is #if someone else says he's an ass. i call him a sad little meow meow #call that authorial neutrality #me rambling #lu ctb #ask #anonymous #linked universe

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robpegoraro · 2 years

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Weekly output: slumping social-media satisfaction, Russia threatens to leave ISS, CHIPS Act, IRS direct e-filing, net-neutrality bill

My workweek ended with a streak of only-in-Washington posts. 7/26/2022: Customer Satisfaction With Social Media Platforms Is Slumping, PCMag I got an advance look at the latest results from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, an ongoing survey project that’s been a source of story ideas since I worked at the Post. 7/27/2022: A Russian ISS exit could give NASA a hangover—then leave…