So, I guess tRump "could" shutdown DU and others as "targeted action against bad actors."

[RKP5637]

as he proceeds to police the internet! Now, he can make our internet freedom like North Korea, China whatever he wants by stretching the rules/law.

"FCC, FTC announce partnership to police internet after net neutrality repeal"

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/364336-fcc-ftc-announce-partnership-to-police-internet-after-net-neutrality-repeal

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced an agreement on Monday to coordinate their efforts to police the internet once the latter agency has repealed its net neutrality rules.

On Thursday, the FCC is expected to approve the plan to scrap the Obama-era consumer protections that prohibit internet service providers from discriminating against, or favoring, certain websites. Under the proposal, the FCC would get rid of the conduct rules governing broadband companies and cede authority over the industry to the FTC.

“The Memorandum of Understanding will be a critical benefit for online consumers because it outlines the robust process by which the FCC and FTC will safeguard the public interest,” FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement. “Instead of saddling the Internet with heavy-handed regulations, we will work together to take targeted action against bad actors.”

[annabanana]

1. He ABSOLUTELY could! Also Buzzfeed, Politifact,

ANY site he considers "fake news"

This is going to be bad.. and yet ANOTHER reason we have to wrest control from the 'pubs in 2018...

[RKP5637]

2. A major win for a wannabe dictator. Control the source/flow/access of information and further

progression of a totally brainwashed society. I really think a lot of Americans are clueless as to what is occurring.

[peacebuzzard]

3. This agenda would violate the 1st amendment

Firestorm brewing.

[RKP5637]

4. Yep, this what I think too! It flies in the face of freedom of speech. Basically, it's governmental

censorship in the highest form. A major violation of the 1st amendment IMO.

[annabanana]

5. So. Does Gorsuch think so too?

That's the only thing we need to know..

[RKP5637]

6. As Trump stacks the judiciary with birds of a feather. FFS, I hope no vacancies open on SCOTUS

during his supremacist reign.

[peacebuzzard]

7. Censorship of the press occurs in dictatorships

The SC could pass a conceivable coup d’etat

[RKP5637]

8. That would lead to the end of American democracy, as millions of Americans will say WTF, how

did this happen. ... state run propaganda.

[peacebuzzard]

9. In order to disseminate pertinent unbiased information

Could an independent browser, team up with a pirate satellite to circumvent a potential internet censorship? Certainly this subject is being explored?
The massive corporate net providers would still enjoy their billions in captive audiences and initially perhaps be unable to contain other offshore providers.
This subject will get complicated very quickly.

[RKP5637]

11. ... back to shortwave radios to get the news. ... until they use signal jamming. I feel like

we're sliding back into WWII era. Somehow with modern technology we will get info, but will the masses. I listen to the English version of Radio Havana occasionally, interesting perspectives on the US and Trump. Someone in some thread said this could also be used to maybe stop people from ordering cheaper prescriptions from other countries. As many Americans snooze, this guy is building a dictatorship and the GOP is more than willing.

[peacebuzzard]

14. I have lived in other countries under dictatorship

As a child, and the Voice of America in the 1960s was the only source of credible info.
I think it was shortwave.

[RKP5637]

15. Yep, it was shortwave. Many very powerful shortwave radios are made today at a fraction

of the cost they used to be.

[Thor_MN]

10. I believe that he would consider us "Baahhd hombres, very, very baaaaaahhhd. Bahleeeve me."

[RKP5637]

12. Resistors!!! Evil in his eyes, not knuckling under to his dictatorship! n/t

[Pachamama]

13. Maybe like the "Way back Machine", DU will have to be hosted on servers in Canada or elsewhere

....and then again if they succeed in removing Net Neutrality, they can control the access to those sites even from outside the US that people want to connect with....

This is really some dystopian nightmare we are moving into...