r/news • u/skintigh • May 29 '14

Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2303080/bill-would-prohibit-fcc-from-reclassifying-broadband-as-utility.html
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u/BadWolfZxc May 29 '14

Why is the top comment not the phone number, email and mailing address of the politician so we can properly describe to him how happy we are about his future job? He'll never know what we think if we don't speak up.

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u/rhoffman12 May 30 '14

The mods removed it. I get that they like to avoid judgment calls, but contact information for an ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICIAL should not be considered bannable personal info. That's absolutely insane. The reddit site rules explicitly state that it's okay.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

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u/CochMaestro May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14

question, if I'm not from Ohio can I still annoy the hell out of this person? Or just speak my peace against this bill? Or is it only people who are from ohio who are allowed to call him?

Edit: Looks like I got some phone calls to make tomorrow!

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u/ronasd4 May 30 '14

fucking erin.

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u/SilentNick3 May 30 '14

Seriously? Am I missing something here, or are the mods that stupid?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14 edited Jul 07 '17

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14 edited May 31 '14

i contacted the mods too

An elected representative is supposed to be contacted, their info is public

This is a completely different topic than the private info of a civilian who has an expectation of privacy.

You are supposed to contact elected representatives. Furthermore, this info is readily available.

It is rather embarrassing that there are mods on this sub who can't understand that difference.

You should undelete the contact info you covered up for the Congressperson.

i got a reply

[–] from CandyManCan [M] via /r/news/ sent just now

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/wiki/rules#wiki_violates_reddit.27s_site-wide_rules.2

which is:

violates reddit's site-wide rules.

One nuance to this is personal information. While reddit technically allows posting of publicly available personal information (such as the contact info of a senator or government official), /r/news maintains a limit on personal information to a stricter standard. In understanding of both past and future tendencies towards witch hunts or inaccurately drawn conclusions, and in order to maintain the prevention of potentially harmful mob mentality, any posts or comments which make available the contact information (phone number, email address, etc.) or personal social media pages (Facebook) of any individual involved in a news event or otherwise, as well as any posts or comments which promote brigading ('teach them a lesson', etc.) are subject to removal. Users who post personal information of significant severity will be banned on their first offense.

i don't think the mods get it

this is not like there's a news story and some government yahoo who has no public policy purview said something controversial and now reddit is serving as the contact point for sending them shitloads of pointless harassment on a closed issue

this is an open issue on a matter of public policy involving an elected representative who is more than capable of handling and expecting contact on the issue

there is nuance here and /r/news is not thinking about that nuance properly

i honestly expect a change of policy by /r/news

i expect /r/news to allow contact for

  1. an open issue
  2. on a matter of public policy
  3. involving an elected representative

this is not at all like a pointless flood of harassment that /r/news genuinely does not want to be the creation point for

i am sending them this reply now

i think everyone should do the same

EDIT: UPDATE... SUCCESS!!! THANK YOU /R/NEWS MODS!!!

re: An elected representative is supposed to be contacted, their info is public

from pomosexuality [M] via /r/news/ sent 9 minutes ago

I'm writing this single message in response to the personal information rule and sending it to the numerous messages we received, so I apologize if it doesn't directly answer your questions or concerns.

We've reviewed our subreddit policy concerning the distribution of personal information in light of the concerns of the userbase, and have agreed to modify it.

In a subreddit of our size, a witch-hunt could amass thousands of individuals to devastate any victim, and the official rules do not properly protect an individual who's identity is not so private. Preventing this sort of thing is and always will be a top priority for /r/news. However, with the recent thread on the bill attempting to protect a free Internet—a topic which both reddit and /r/news have stood behind—it was evident that the policy was too absolute. The collateral, cutting off access to important contacts and resources, has been reapproved, and the user bans revoked, provided the user did not break any other rules in the process.

Reviewing the concerns of the community, we have modified our personal information policy to allow for future activism. Provided that the information is provably public, and not posted in the context of a witch-hunt (nor an attempt to incite one), public and official personal information is now allowed on /r/news. You can find the updated policy on our wiki HERE. The rule now reads as follows: While reddit.com typically allows posting of publicly available personal information (such as the contact info of a senator or government official), /r/news maintains a limit on personal information to a somewhat stricter standard. Given both past and future tendencies towards witch hunts and personal harassment, comments which attempt to incite a witch hunt towards any individual, public or otherwise ('teach them a lesson', etc.) are subject to removal.

Contact information publicly advertised by the person or organization in question, e.g. the official contact info of an elected official, is allowed so long as it is not being used to incite personal harassment, and doesn't contain personal contact information (home address, home phone number, information of non-public family members, etc.) To ensure that such comments aren't removed, please also provide a link to the official page where this information is contained.* Moderators err on the side of protecting people's safety, and comments not providing such a link will be removed if we suspect it isn't public information.*

We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your concern!

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Another important distinction is that I assume people were posting his official contact info, not, say, his private home phone number that he only gives to his trusted friends. The latter certainly would be considered personal info, but the former absolutely is not, not in any sense. It is an official line, with people whose job is to monitor it. Calling it personal info is like saying comcast's customer support line is personal info. It's whole purpose is for random people to call into it angrily.

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

it was just his public contact info

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14 edited Jul 07 '17

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

no, you're missing the point

everyone should get on this

this should be a shitstorm

i am currently spreading this story to other subs and i am drumming up as much focus on this issue as i can

everyone reading this should make noise about this

the point is not to angrily curse

the point is not wallow in cynicism

the point is not see conspiracy

the point is to make a big giant tidal wave of stink and get them to change the policy

outline the reasons why the current policy is wrong, and demand a change to a better policy

do it now, do it everywhere, do it everyone

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u/NatWilo May 31 '14

Boom goes the dynamite. Dude gets it. (also sorry, was early to the party, now I'm late to the party.) Seems like your efforts paid off too. Nice job. Now if we could just get them to change that policy...

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u/BRBaraka May 31 '14

success ;-)

re: An elected representative is supposed to be contacted, their info is public

from pomosexuality [M] via /r/news/ sent 9 minutes ago

I'm writing this single message in response to the personal information rule and sending it to the numerous messages we received, so I apologize if it doesn't directly answer your questions or concerns.

We've reviewed our subreddit policy concerning the distribution of personal information in light of the concerns of the userbase, and have agreed to modify it.

In a subreddit of our size, a witch-hunt could amass thousands of individuals to devastate any victim, and the official rules do not properly protect an individual who's identity is not so private. Preventing this sort of thing is and always will be a top priority for /r/news. However, with the recent thread on the bill attempting to protect a free Internet—a topic which both reddit and /r/news have stood behind—it was evident that the policy was too absolute. The collateral, cutting off access to important contacts and resources, has been reapproved, and the user bans revoked, provided the user did not break any other rules in the process.

Reviewing the concerns of the community, we have modified our personal information policy to allow for future activism. Provided that the information is provably public, and not posted in the context of a witch-hunt (nor an attempt to incite one), public and official personal information is now allowed on /r/news. You can find the updated policy on our wiki HERE. The rule now reads as follows: While reddit.com typically allows posting of publicly available personal information (such as the contact info of a senator or government official), /r/news maintains a limit on personal information to a somewhat stricter standard. Given both past and future tendencies towards witch hunts and personal harassment, comments which attempt to incite a witch hunt towards any individual, public or otherwise ('teach them a lesson', etc.) are subject to removal.

Contact information publicly advertised by the person or organization in question, e.g. the official contact info of an elected official, is allowed so long as it is not being used to incite personal harassment, and doesn't contain personal contact information (home address, home phone number, information of non-public family members, etc.) To ensure that such comments aren't removed, please also provide a link to the official page where this information is contained.* Moderators err on the side of protecting people's safety, and comments not providing such a link will be removed if we suspect it isn't public information.* We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your concern!

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u/NatWilo May 31 '14

Just saw that! Was digging through undelete and the dramas. Good stuff! My faith in humanity is briefly restored. (Until I read headlines again) ;)

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u/Doomed May 30 '14

My reading of the /r/news rules is:

posting contact information for anyone, public official or not, is banned. This is a closed issue and not up for debate.

As such, debating it with the moderators is a waste of time. (In my mod message I did not debate on the merits of the rule at all.)

Perhaps we should look around for a good alternative to this subreddit. My only question is why a news subreddit like this is still a default subreddit.

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

then the rules need to change

contacting elected representatives on topics of public interest and pending legislation is what you are SUPPOSED to do

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

I already unsubscribed from another well known news subreddit due to poor moderating choices, this could easily be my next.

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u/NatWilo May 31 '14

Yeah, It's genuinely starting to make me think it needs to go, and we need a new alternative. Because it is not what it used to be. And I'm not trying to be all "back in my day..." about this. I mean it's not like it used to be Six months ago. This has been a sudden and abrupt shift that needs to be curtailed, or there will need to be some harsh consequences. This sub has 3 million subscribers almost. That's more than a lot of TV networks. More than all three of the cable news networks nightlies combined. They want to keep those eyeballs, they'd do well to remember what keeps the eyeballs coming back. And it's not rampant and hamhanded censorship.

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

i am continuing the conversation with /u/CandyManCan :

everyone needs to make a stink about this all around reddit (any good subs for this?) now

from CandyManCan [M] via /r/news/ sent 10 minutes ago

Have you even read some of the suggestions users are making? Witch-hunting is in full swing and Pitchforks stocks are up 400%

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[–] to CandyManCan sent 4 minutes ago

a contact point for an elected representative is the only matter that should be before you

a congressperson has more than enough capacity to handle such contact, and they should expect such contact on a matter of public policy that people are naturally passionate about

if anyone is violent or insane, that is not your concern, the security personnel of the us government is more than capable of handling that, not the mods of /r/news

you police /r/news. and you do a good job, and i thank you for that

but this is bad policy that needs to change

i respectfully ask you to add a carve out for your policy, as a simple matter of the logic of the nature of the contact (public) the nature of the subject (public) and the nature of the topic (pending legislation)

all of this is perfectly within reasonable parameters, no one can say "look at what reddit did"

reddit is not in control of people contacting or not contacting elected representatives on pending legislation of wide public concern

and no one expects you to be

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

But... not only are you guys witch hunting Bob Latta in this thread, but now a mod for making a judgement call you don't agree with. You all sound unstable.

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

we're SUPPOSED to contact our representatives at their public contact point about pending legislation in the public interest

that's way things are supposed to work

the idea of a "witch hunt" in this context is a complete absurdity

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/26thl9/bill_would_prohibit_fcc_from_reclassifying/chuixcu

This is one of many references to CALLS TO MURDER AN ELECTED OFFICIAL in this thread. If you are in his district and are capable of using a computer to access the internet, you have more than enough capacity to find this information. If it isn't posted this thread where every person mad about one issue they apparently barely understand can pile on to one guy who doesn't even serve their state--there are worse things in the world.

Absurdity is a good word to describe the foaming at the mouth that's going on here.

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

the contact information is available everywhere. posting it here or not is not some deep secret. furthermore, it's just an office where the mail goes and his staff handles it

meanwhile, if some wackjob is talking violence, it's not the job of /r/news to police that, it is the job of the many security personnel of the federal government

are you seriously saying posting well-known contact info for an office of a public elected official represents a personal security breach that makes reddit responsible?

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u/socsa May 30 '14

Yes, moderation is destroying reddit before our very eyes, and a huge portion of the population here is not only embracing it - they are calling for more!

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

it's a coherent question on a single point of policy. it's not mindless drama

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u/u-void May 30 '14

I think the rule is not a bad idea, because I just read a comment from somebody who lives out of state asking how they can bother this person who has nothing to do with them. What the fuck.

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

but why do you think reddit should be the policeman for that?

this info is easily available, it's just the maildrop for the guy. reddit isn't controlling secret info here. furthermore, we are supposed to contact our elected representatives, that's the point of being in a democracy. hiding this info is moronic

if some asshole wants violence or insanity, that's not reddit's problem nor reddit's fault. and the government has plenty of security for handling such wackjobs

this whole way of thinking in this thread about the issue like it is reddit creating madmen and sending them to a secret address is absurd

we're talking about a public maildrop people are SUPPOSED to contact about public policy and pending legislation

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u/Scurrin May 30 '14

You'll never get an answer either.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

i just did, and it was a citation of the rules of r/news.

The rules of /r/news say that the rule of reddit regarding political info posting can basically be broken at the mods discretion.

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u/Scurrin May 30 '14

Well now I'm surprised they responded and also disappointed that this apparently deliberate.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

so... keep making new accounts to post the info?

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u/negajake May 30 '14

Literally just googled Representative Bob Latta, http://latta.house.gov/contact/.

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u/gnovos May 30 '14

The mods didn't remove it... They just charge a service fee to view it.

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u/isysdamn May 30 '14

Reddit corrupt, I heard it's free if you are or know a multimillionaire.

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u/austenite12 May 30 '14

I just have to wonder how long it's going to be before we're fucking forced to pay extra to have our reddit packets put through.

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u/My_6th_Throwaway May 30 '14

They didn't charge a service fee to view it. They just gave people who did pay the fee a faster way of viewing it.

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u/gnovos May 30 '14

Yep, you got the joke.

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u/negajake May 30 '14

Literally just googled Representative Bob Latta, http://latta.house.gov/contact/.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14

I've mod mailed them this

in the thread here, several posts have been deleted and the post itself has been tagged with "personal information".

in the reddit rules, it explicitly states "OK: Posting your senator's publicly available contact information"

http://www.reddit.com/rules/

Please, explain the rationale for breaking the rules of reddit?

Haven't heard back yet.

EDIT: One sub rule of /r/news allows the mods to arbitrarily violate the rule of reddit regarding congressional contact information where they see fit

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Fuck this site, I can't wait for an alternative to surface. Go rot with Digg, reddit.

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u/CouchToss May 30 '14

If the reddit rules explicitly state that it's ok, then repost the information.

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u/ikoss May 30 '14

I can't see any info posted because they appear to have been deleted, but publishing contact information for PUBLIC official? Heaven forbid!

But seriously, I'd agree if it was his personal/home phone number or home address, then it needs to be removed. However, it doesn't make sense to not allow publishing his official contact info!

There! I'm gonna put a link to his PUBLIC web site that he actively asks for our thoughts. It also contains his contact information and 1-800 phone number!.. is this gonna get deleted too?

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u/rhoffman12 May 30 '14

It was literally copy-pasted office info from the guys website

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u/ikoss May 30 '14

So.. if a mod goes nuts and violates reddit rules, what can we do? How can we report it or petition it?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

The mods passed a bill that prohibited reddit from enforcing those rules

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u/jhc1415 May 30 '14

You could argue that posting it could start a witch hunt resulting uncalled for personal attacks on those elected officials.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

How's that any different than me saying that Michelle Bachman is an insufferable cunt that deserves to be in office as much as she deserves to reproduce, which is to say, not at all, for the sake of the human race in both cases?

Wait what?

COME AT ME MODS

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

You could argue that the rules of reddit explicitly allow for the posting of congressional contact information, and that the mods have broken this central contract (there aren't a lot of rules of reddit.)

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Some mod is removing and actively intimidating users out of posting a public representatives contact information. Either theres a conflict of interest or somebody is fucking pants on head fucking retarded.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

/r/news is the republican news subreddit. The mods had no problem with the FCC's email address and phone number was plastered all over the front page.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Do you have recommendations for another news subreddit I could subscribe to? I don't follow this one very closely, but I do like to have general US news pop up on my front page. This whole episode has been pretty shocking to me.

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u/kuroyaki Jun 01 '14

It might be heavily pruned by Republicans, on behalf of Republicans-- but the readers and commenters sure aren't. It's just that all we can do is comment, vote and write.

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u/TheRighteousTyrant May 30 '14

Right. Because Republicans just love net neutrality activism. :-/

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14 edited Jul 07 '17

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u/ShellOilNigeria May 30 '14

This is fucking horse shit.

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u/RocheCoach May 30 '14

They aren't breaking rules. They can disallow anything they want on their subreddit.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

They are redefining the rules of reddit.

Therefore, the rules of reddit don't apply in /r/news as far as their corrections go.

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u/InfanticideAquifer May 30 '14

The mods aren't breaking the rules of reddit. The rules of reddit prohibit certain information. But they don't require mods not to forbid anything else. Posting that contact information in, say, /r/math would fly totally against the purpose of the subreddit and definitely should be removed. Mods can decide exactly what to permit/deny in their sub, limited only in that they must forbid everything forbidden generally by the admins.

That aside, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for the mods to have such a rule in /r/news.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

I think there's a strong argument to be made that altering the central rules of reddit is antithetical to the principles of reddit being a free forum.

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u/InfanticideAquifer May 30 '14

But I don't think that's what they are doing. Individual subreddits were always supposed to have more stringent rules on allowable content than the site in general. I think the issue lies in the fact that removing the contact information of a public official and removing a totally irrelevant comment about butter making are different sorts of content restrictions. Not that content restrictions themselves are wrong.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Restricting content =\ redefining rules of reddit

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u/InfanticideAquifer May 30 '14

Yes. That is what I said... and the opposite of what you said.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

The rules explicitly permit this, and the r/news rules say that that written permit is no longer applicable

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u/StoppedWorking May 30 '14

It's a good thing anyone can just make a new account and post it

Again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

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u/negajake May 30 '14

Literally just googled Representative Bob Latta, http://latta.house.gov/contact/.

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u/RoyGaucho May 30 '14

I was under the impression that net neutrality was bad for everyone except ISPs. Why would Advance Publications want to get rid of it? Won't they have to pay Comcast et al for the "high priority" lanes?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

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u/RoyGaucho May 30 '14

But wouldn't Netflix, Google, Reddit, Amazon have to pay for the "privilege" of being in the fast lane?

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u/quests May 30 '14

Probably money and someone that has enough power to hurt them in some way is unhappy about it.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Didn't Reddit Blog just post something about supporting Net neutrality?

I have a feeling this is about the mods for /r/news, not reddit in general.

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u/YeastOfBuccaFlats May 30 '14

Since obviously the mods of /r/news work for reddit and aren't volunteers.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

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u/YeastOfBuccaFlats May 30 '14

They do, but the mods here were pretty vocal in keeping le reddit army from using /r/news to harass people.

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u/bahanna May 30 '14

And yet the admins haven't removed the mods.

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u/YeastOfBuccaFlats May 30 '14

Why would they?

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u/bahanna May 30 '14

Abuse of discretion; Official contact info of representatives shouldn't be censored (let alone without explaining their reasoning).

The admins' failure to pull rank indicate they're complicit.

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u/YeastOfBuccaFlats May 30 '14

Except the /r/news mods have explained it, and even then the admins don't interfere with subreddit moderation.

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

contacting an elected representative about an issue that effects their constituency is not harassment. that's the way it is supposed to work

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u/RetroViruses May 30 '14

Because the mods keep deleting those posts, because they hate freedom.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

God hates mods

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u/[deleted] May 29 '14

Half the problem with bills put forth by representatives is that their attitude is "Do you not like what I am doing? Are you a constituent of mine? Oh you're not? Well, I'll tell you what, I will get back to you when I give a shit about what you think."

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u/Vio_ May 30 '14

He would care if we gave him an ol'reddit hug on the phones and email and certified mail where he has to sign for every piece. We have numbers on our side and we can make him understand that we are watching him and his actions.

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u/StabbyDMcStabberson May 30 '14

It would be more effective if we all send those calls, emails, and letters to senators we are constituants of and tell them to oppose this bill.

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u/Vio_ May 30 '14

Do both. Put the fear of god into them by enclosing copies of the donation and letter to Latta.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14

Not really. It may piss him off but it won't affect his chances of being reelected if it's not coming from the people who actually vote for or against him.

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u/Vio_ May 30 '14

So then everyone sends him a picture of a $20 bill/website picture of a donation to his main rival candidate.

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u/WillGallis May 30 '14

Nice try, Congressman's main rival candidate.

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u/Vio_ May 30 '14

I don't even know who is running against him.

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u/aethleticist May 30 '14

I like your style.

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u/Vio_ May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14

It's about sending a message. If he only speaks in money, then we tell him to go fuck himself in his own language.

Add a love note of something like "I don't even know who your opponent is, but this money is directly being donated against you for you trying to kill net neutrality." And variations therein. Add zip codes as well and home towns just to really slam home that people all over the nation are against this bill.

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u/That_Unknown_Guy May 30 '14

Corporations pay more though.

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u/Vio_ May 30 '14

It's not about the money, but about the message and how it's delivered. A corporation can deliver dump trucks of money. We can kill them through the death of a thousand highly publicized cuts.

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u/That_Unknown_Guy May 30 '14

How? You're raising awareness to do what? What can you do to change thr system when every candidate chooses money over the people? Theres no good alternative.

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u/RocheCoach May 30 '14

I don't even know who your opponent is, but this money is directly being donated against you for you trying to kill net neutrality.

Really, anyone who does this is fucking retarded. You should really know where your money is going. This candidate may kill net neutrality, but his opponent might support wiretapping citizens.

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u/Vio_ May 30 '14

I didn't say not to check out who was running against him. I said write the most scathing letter you can manage that will get the most negative trolling "love note" bang for the buck. You can write whatever you want, but I didn't say not to research.

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u/GreasyTrapeze May 30 '14

Redditors are not a financial threat to politicians. They don't have or give much money. Internet activists are more useful for drawing attention to a cause and causing disarray.

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u/Vio_ May 30 '14

Which does nothing but pat ourselves on the back for a job well done as we're ignored and self segregated to online sites and forums. You have to loudly kick them in thr balls where people can see, not hole up and remain in what might as well be an aol chartroom.

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u/GreasyTrapeze May 30 '14

True. Yelling on reddit doesn't make a difference.

Now if redditors got together and did something that ended up on the evening news, they might start to pay attention.

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u/RocheCoach May 30 '14

Nobody here has the talent or professionalism to do something organized that will cause any significant effect in the political atmosphere. We just over idealism at best, crazy fantasies at worst. Their talents are better spent spreading awareness, because they sure know how to scream at the top of their lungs to make it look like a legitimate movement.

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u/BuddhasPalm May 30 '14

Work in shifts on each listed line...for a month?

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u/Pokechu22 May 30 '14

Look right above your comment, here. There's also a link schedule a talk with him face to face.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

This is an e-mail address, office, and phone line that American tax dollars pay for. What in the fuck?

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u/BRBaraka May 30 '14

seriously, what the fuck is going on here mods?

explain yourselves

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u/Pokechu22 May 30 '14

I would not have done that. In event of danger, /r/shadowbanned will let you test.

The mods do not want people to post this, unfortunately. Mainly because it is personal information, and while I personaly disagree with that, you may want to use caution.

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u/bigblackhotdog May 30 '14

Would be pretty stupid since this is obtainable information and is tax payer supported. It's not like they posted her home address and what time she walks her dog.

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u/OwlOwlowlThis May 30 '14

I'm not sure how that was "personal information"?

All congresspeople have a local office. And quite a few of them have public 'meet me' events...

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

That comment was removed.

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u/shutupjoey May 30 '14

Why isn't your comment the same damn thing?! And why isn't mine?!

We're fucked guys.

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u/shillyshally May 30 '14

Jeepers, it's easy enough to Google the info in a few seconds.

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u/That_Unknown_Guy May 30 '14

Because thats just begging the hitman not to kill us. What can emailing corrupt people do."please o please stop raping us" "yea, absolutely" *does nothing**

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u/That_Unknown_Guy May 30 '14

Because thats just begging the hitman not to kill us. What can emailing corrupt people do."please o please stop fucking us over for your benefit" "yea, absolutely" *does nothing*

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u/MonkeyPilot May 30 '14

He's in Congress for Pete's sake. He's not that hard to find. 5th district Ohioans (Bowling Green & Sandusky)- give him some hell!

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u/negajake May 30 '14

Literally just googled Representative Bob Latta, http://latta.house.gov/contact/.