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Technically, Net Neutrality in the USA ended on Monday 23rd April, the end of the 60 day consultation period, but it's unlikely that your ISP provider will do anything immediately because the negative PR would be impressive. But keep an eye out, as it's been speculated they'll wait a bit until you're not paying attention, then gradually up the ante... think... lobsters in pots of water slowly coming to the boil.

In (I'm sure completely unrelated) news the NTA has given its Charlton Heston Courage Award to Ajit Pai (I guess the inanimate carbon rod declined) for his brave decision, and presented him with a handmade Kentucky long gun.

A statue of Millicent Fawcett, one of the pioneer Sufragette's has been unveiled in London's Parliament Square, the first statue of a woman in that place, to celebrate 100 years of women in Britain getting the vote.

The UK has a new holder of the title "Fifth in line to the throne" as the Duke and Duchess of Kent welconme their third child, a boy, to the world.

The last 12 Toys'R'Us stores in the UK shut their sdoors for the last time today (the others closed over the past few days).

In one of those "genuinely sad, but still slightly restoring your faith in humanity" stories, a man who died whilst running the London Marathon at the weekend, and who had hoped to raise £2,500 for a local charity, has inspired donations to be made to the charity by members of the public in excess of £90,000.

Let us raise a bottle of maple syrup to James Shaw Jr, the unarmed man who wrestled the rifle out of the hands of a gunman (since arrested) who opened fire at a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville.

"Avengers: Infinity War" opens at the end of the week. Which will at least hopefully end the merciless, seemingly endless media coverage.

Is anyone watching "Krypton"? I can't seem to find anything in the way of actual coverage on it, it's not even garnering bad stuff like Inhumans did. Is it any good?

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commodus

Oh, dear. I've been very ill. As it is, I have to wake up at one in the morning to get to work, but last night I had no sleep whatsoever, so the whole time I was at my job I felt like I was going to faint!

In brighter news, those of you with a PS4 might want to check out the new demo of Detroit: Become Human. It's a little clunky to control, but I really love the interactive story style of it. It reminds me of those old Choose Your Own Adventure books :D

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icon_uk

Sorry to hear that, drink plenty of water (I'd say fluids, but on THIS site that could be misconstrued!) and try to rest as much as you can, even if you can't sleep.

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deh_tommy

Have you ever tried any of Quantic Dreams’ other games?

Re: I hope you get well soon

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crinos

Regarding the Net Neutrality thing, bear two things in mind:

1)There is still a massive court fight underway where over twenty states, free speech groups, and a coalition of video game companies are fighting the decision via lawsuit, and Pai's legal precedent to kill Net Neutrality is shaky at best, especially considering the public opinion period was obviously compromised by Anti Net Neutrality Spam bots flooding the comments section (of which Pai did nothing). So its pretty likely that the Cable companies wont do anything until the court things are settled since they don't want their hands in the cookie jar.

2) A number of states have already begun to make their own Net Neutrality laws (In spit of Pai saying that they couldn't do that when he wrote the repeal). For a few this is nothing more than a Executive order, but in some places like Washington and I think Vermont its been signed into actual law. The basic work around they are using that if Internet providers don't adhere with net neutrality, the state will not do business with them.

I always had a feeling that trying to protect Net Neutrality in the federal level was a waste of time as long as Trump and his cronies were in charge up there. I kept seeing all these "We only need one more vote in the senate to save Net Neutrality:" and just groaned and rolled my eyes because I knew that one vote was gonna have to be a Republican and we weren't getting it. No, Net Neutrality, for now at least, will be defended in the courts and the states. So you want to save Net Neutrality, call your State Attorney General or your Governor and tell them to get in on this.

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deh_tommy

Stupid question: why does Mr. Pai call this the “plan to restore internet freedom”? What freedom is being restored that was taken away previously?

Bringing the crack since December 2003

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