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Your answer encourages international users to participate, but you could make it clearer what actions you think they can take which would have any tangible effect on the FCC, on US politicians, on US voters, or on whoever else you mean for their actions to affect. I think that part of the answer could be clearer about what you're seeking/advocating.
– Glen_b
Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 2:11
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@Glen_b Shog9 already indicated they have a plan for what they plan to say about how people can participate in the upcoming blog-post, this question was finally the first time they asked us for approval: "So let's hear it: why should or shouldn't we all head over to battleforthenet.com right now and use the handy form to send a letter to the FCC?"
– Der Kommissar
Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 10:10
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This is exacty the issue I was worried you might be getting at -- how would a foreigner have any impact on the FCC? Indeed wouldn't they open themselves to exactly the sort of accusations (and perhaps investigations) of connections to/influence from other countries that the current administration is struggling with? Isn't the FCC's responsibility to Americans? Indeed such considerations would seem to require a show of ignoring international pressure especially in the current climate -- so bringing any would seem potentially counterproductive
– Glen_b
Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 10:17
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@Glen_b The problem is that this has an international scope. If you're not in the U.S., then I encourage you to research how many websites (including Stack Exchange) that you visit that are exclusively located in the U.S., and you might find that a lot of the ultra large ones like Google, Amazon, Netflix are probably geo-located to your international location (assuming you have one), but I bet some of the somewhat smaller ones are only found either here or there. This has a global impact, there's no doubt about that.
– Der Kommissar
Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 10:32
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I completely agree it has an international scope. At no point did I so much as begin to suggest otherwise. I was discussing the value of foreigners trying to pressure the FCC -- if their responsibility is only to Americans they will likely get more value (in political capital) from being seen to ignore the international impact than listening to it (as has happened many times in the past with US institutions -- such behavior always seems to play well with a segment of the US population). From the tenor of your response I feel like you didn't really read my comment at all.
– Glen_b
Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 10:41
@Glen_b I read it, I just didn't respond to exactly what you said because you're using the wrong point of view. The interesting thing about our government is that they're easy to pressure. The other thing is, what's the worst that can happen if you, an individual, sends them a comment that you disagree with net-neutrality? They ignore it? Great, so you wasted a couple minutes but someone, somewhere probably read it. You can at least flood them with messages about how you think it's a bad idea. No action is the worst action: because you're at the whim of whomever does take action.
– Der Kommissar
Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 11:02
@Glen_b At any rate, I've updated my answer and if you're going to continue to debate whether or not foreigners should do something I have no interest in that, the chat room might have a good discussion on it though (maybe they can convince you why participating is necessary and how).
– Der Kommissar
Commented Jun 30, 2017 at 11:03
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This starts out by saying how important it is to help people understand net neutrality, then there's an irrelevant wall of text, and at the end a highly contrived and strained analogy that doesn't help that much.
– erickson
Commented Jul 2, 2017 at 4:53
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@Glen_b - Australian here. The biggest problem from my perspective is the precedent that the US will set should these changes be implemented. I think that "foreigners" (myself included) can help by reaching out to our own local elected people and sharing our concerns on the topic with them (rather than the FCC or the US Congresspeople). If they see this concern filtering through based on the US decision they will be less ready to adopt the same practices locally, which in turn could feed back into the US's future decisions/plans if enough of the international community don't support it.
– Robotnik
Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 4:25
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Add more examples so they do not read about barbecue only :)
– Kyslik
Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 8:08
I just post the link about this to chatroom but it seems like not much people care... So sad, I'm from Taiwan, I've just finished the comment to FCC.
– Niing
Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 8:40
What does this have to do with the bill? AFFAIK the bill and you are aligned, right?
– user319967
Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 20:04

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