Lobbying elected officials? - How to explain the series of tubes?

[KiwiFuzz]

Hi, I heard Daddy Null's call to action on Rekeita's show suggesting that we lobby our state senators for net neutrality in our state.

I live in California and my state senator is on the communications subcommittee. I feel like he would be an excellent prospect for approaching on this topic.

Unfortunately, I am ass-ignorant about how the Internet works and I feel like with my current body of knowledge I would not be very effective at communicating with the senator on this topic. Also, my senator is not known for his interest in tech issues and I doubt he has someone on staff who is willing to do any heavy lifting on the topic. My worst fear is getting a little bit of traction on this issue and then having my senator decide that I am a crank and that this issue is too difficult for him to address.

1. Are there any quick-and-dirty summaries that would help me verbally explain the difference between, say, Facebook and the Internet? Preferably involving the manufacture and sale of sandwiches? And preferably not making me look like an Elon Musk fart-huffer?

2. In an ideal, rainbow-covered mescaline dream of a world, what would a state-level bill on net neutrality look like?

Thanks, fronds.

 

[Null]

Right now, almost unfortunately, it looks like things will be sorted sensibly. There's not really a political agenda I can endorse when we still have options.

In particular, if hurricane electric (HE) blackholed us, I'd be crying war however and wherever possible. I don't think we're quite there yet. For some reason, only companies with DDoS filtering are particularly sensitive.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Right now, almost unfortunately, it looks like things will be sorted sensibly. There's not really a political agenda I can endorse when we still have options.

In particular, if hurricane electric (HE) blackholed us, I'd be crying war however and wherever possible. I don't think we're quite there yet. For some reason, only companies with DDoS filtering are particularly sensitive.

What about a general push to designate US ISPs as common carriers, without even bringing KF into it?

 

[Karma Khan]

The fact that the Tier 1 backbone providers aren't already designated as common carriers is pure insanity. How the fuck did whoever is in charge of this shit overlook that fact when regulating the telecomm sector?

 

[Dyn]

Right now, almost unfortunately, it looks like things will be sorted sensibly.

Well what the fuck are we supposed to do with all these IRA poutine-shop pipe bombs now?