Congress Legalizes Internet Censorship

(aka Net Neutrality reversed)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/01/court-kills-net-neutrality/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usB-FDET3ds

So now, ISPs have free reign over what they will allow you to access over the internet even if it is legal content you are trying to access. If they (the ISP) don't like it, or don't want you accessing it, they can block it on a whim. Legally. They can even choose to charge you extra to access certain content over the net that is normally freely available, or to use certain applications that compete with services they (the ISP) offer. It's basically legalized black mail.

I can't say this really surprises me that much given how much shitty censorship legislation congress has been trying to force feed us for the last 5 years or so (PIPA, SOPA, ACTA, etc.), but that doesn't make this any less shit.

This is just another example of a room full of old, irrelevant men passing laws on stuff they don't have a single freaking clue about. Why do they care? Because they are all shills for big corporations who want to push this garbage on us so they can squeeze more money out of the American public, or push their garbage services over something we would choose ourselves that has nothing to do with them.

'Murica!

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-_-#

2013 Media in Review

The Good

Games

• Path of Exile
• Crysis 3
• Starbound
• Stardrive
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• The Last of Us
• Fez
• Spelunky
• XCOM: Enemy Within
• Rogue Legacy
• Metro Last Light
• Antichamber
• Don't Starve
• Evoland
• Hammerwatch
• The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing
• Sword of the Stars: The Pit

Movies/TV

• Lone Survivor
• Log Horizon
• The Mentalist
• The Walking Dead
• One Piece
• Naruto Shippuden
• Falling Skies
• Breaking Bad
• Dexter
• The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug
• Avatar: Legend of Korra
• Continuum
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
• Ender's Game
• Hell's Kitchen
• Frozen
• 12 Years a Slave
• Prisoners
• Captain Phillips
• Man of Steel
• The Amazing Spiderman
• Elysium
• Riddick
• The Lone Ranger
• Pacific Rim
• The World's End
• World War Z
• RED 2
• Oblivion
• Homefront
• After Earth
• The Colony

The Bad

Games

• Aliens: Colonial Marines
• Ride to Hell
• Battlefield 4 (PC)
• Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes
• Deadspace 3
• Bioshock Infinite
• The War Z
• Grand Theft Auto 5
• The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
• All movie tie-ins
• The Wolf Among Us
• Neverwinter Online
• Darksiders 2
• Call of Duty: Ghosts
• PAYDAY 2
• Saints Row 4
• Risk of Rain
• Outlast
• Day One Gary's Incident
• Defiance
• Battle Worlds: Kronos
• Dawn of Fantasy: Kingdoms Wars
• Eador: Masters of the Broken World
• Might & Magic X: Legacy
• Wasteland 2

Movies/TV

• Defiance
• Almost Human
• The Tomorrow People
• Prometheus
• Carrie
• Gravity
• Jackass: Bad Grandpa
• Thor: The Dark World
• Escape Plan
• Kickass 2
• Star Trek: Into Darkness
• Last Vegas
• Out of the Furnace
• The Wolverine
• All Is Lost
• Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
• Jobs
• Iron Man 3
• Machete Kills
• The Last Stand
• Jack the Giant Slayer
• RIPD
• Texas Chainsaw 3D
• Sharknado
• GI Joe: Retaliation
• Europa Report
• The Last Days On Mars
• Oldboy