As an American, I believe the fundamental reason you don't see widespread organized resistance against lack of universal healthcare and employer benefiting work legislation is due to the absolute lack of social programs.
Americans cannot organize because of the lack of universal healthcare and work legislation such as "at will employment." Doing such would risk one's job and healthcare. There is no recourse once one is unemployed in the US, especially if one does not have a significant amount of money saved. The government and corporations have our back against the wall.
thanks for this. i don't have a 6s. either that or it thinks i've already had a battery replacement. which could be true? this is my third 6 plus.
my original's lcd screen had the touch disease, since it was just inside warranty they "replaced" it by just giving me a new phone.
the replacement died within a week. serious wtf. so i went in and got yet another one.
this one has been fine, mostly. but i'm probably not going to get a iphone for my next device. not saying no other devices do this but that touch disease should be fixed even if you're outside warranty and not be charged with the $329 it cost. my original phone was susceptible to it and only by sheer "luck" did it happen within my warranty.
I think the FCC's repeated adoption of pro-neutrality regulations are very clear actions. The people who keep knocking them down are the federal courts, and then the FCC keeps setting up new ones framed slightly differently but aimed at achieving the same ends. So, yeah, actions speak louder than words -- and the FCC's actions on net neutrality are pretty consistently in favor of it (just as the words of the majority of commissioners, including the current chair, are.)
The whole "fast lane" idea is based on a couple news outlets reporting of claims of anonymous sources with unspecified qualifications about their interpretation of the content of an unreleased proposal (note also that the original articles weren't actually consistent on their claims, either, as one claimed that the proposal would include a provision allowing for "fast lanes", and one suggesting that the proposal would allow it implicitly because it didn't address the practice at all), claims which have been emphatically denied on the record by Wheeler, whose proposal it is.
Once they've actually published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for public comment, there will be a chance for informed discussion.
Maybe. But this isn't just a question of using the right label. Classifying ISPs as common carriers also subjects them to a pile of other regulations and statutory requirements that were designed for other segments of the telecom industry. I don't think it's obvious that this cure would be better than the disease. It may, indeed, be better for the FCC to go as far as they can without designating ISPs as common carriers, but no farther. This seems to be what the FCC plans to do.
Americans cannot organize because of the lack of universal healthcare and work legislation such as "at will employment." Doing such would risk one's job and healthcare. There is no recourse once one is unemployed in the US, especially if one does not have a significant amount of money saved. The government and corporations have our back against the wall.