A vote by the Federal Communications Commission to repeal Obama-era net neutrality protections is scheduled for Thursday and is expected to pass on a party-line vote.
A Twitter post by England-based graffiti artist Banksy has been making the rounds ahead of the vote and scaring people into thinking they’ll be paying $15 a month for access to Twitter if the FCC goes back to the dark days before net neutrality passed in 2015.
https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/940989790677291010
That tweet has been retweeted more than 60,000 times, but people in the know aren’t buying it.
There are no words to describe how stupid and incorrect this is. Someone just made some random stuff up and tens of thousands of people retweeted it. Ugh. I hate everyone. https://t.co/aaOnMaY9vY
— Pounce de León (@RightAllTheTime) December 13, 2017
Literally none of this is true but that won't stop it from getting 10's of thousands of retweets https://t.co/qzGIty7I4a
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) December 13, 2017
This is totally made up, but even if it were true, I’m not seeing the problem here. If Twitter or Google wants to charge for their services, that should be their right. I’m not a damn socialist who expects something for nothing. https://t.co/TbdeNEivK0
— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) December 13, 2017
This is not how that works… https://t.co/5bXnR5dF5H
— Hines (@HinesmanTrophy) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/Josiahbrown_1/status/941083191603027968
i actually wish this did happen so i could go back to being a human being and quit the internet https://t.co/FDIetQfauz
— scott vener (@brokemogul) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/xchixm/status/941082171321868288
It'll be like those dark days 2 years ago… When there were no free websites at all https://t.co/0EgtRW12mi
— G̶e̶n̶ ̶Z̶,̶ ̶M̶i̶l̶l̶e̶n̶i̶a̶l̶, Gen Yitz (@MeerkatYitz) December 13, 2017
When you love the government more than the market, you make these kinds of outlandish claims.
None of this was before February 26, 2015.#StopLying https://t.co/CvCHaHY48k
— Ryan Rickard (@GospelPanacea) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/RogersWork/status/940995893100244992
I'm not up to date with net neutrality, so correct me if I'm wrong, but the net neutrality rule was only put in place two years ago so why would we see this now as opposed to two years ago before it was put in place? https://t.co/pQyKT7gBvQ
— Ricky (@_rickycaruso) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/TheOpulentAmish/status/941068886375522304
https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/941061747225579520
If you believe this you’re kinda dumb. https://t.co/pNKeKq52zK
— ross (@rlag09) December 13, 2017
What a terrible way to advocate for Net Neutrality. Give people facts (if you have them), not scary, made-up numbers. https://t.co/hg5D1Q0clL
— Mark Wickens (@mwickens) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/IamGreeneye/status/941034337037844480
https://twitter.com/FryinHam/status/941033231528296448
This is the dumbest take I've seen yet.
And that is saying something.
You can't fix stupid. https://t.co/bPDCWKYeKR
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/MrJoshPerry/status/941072022133669889
This has almost 40,000 RTs. I swear, people have zero critical thinking skills. https://t.co/SLBrIXD8nf
— Lt. Kernel Robert Kroese (ret.) (@robkroese) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/calebqwash/status/941009925819502592
https://twitter.com/themattcolvin/status/941079923304861698
Clearly has a firm grasp on the matter. https://t.co/f300blytIM
— BT (@back_ttys) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/GlomarNeverDies/status/941010501584281600
Son, lay off the drugs. https://t.co/uH1MR8K36R
— Smokin Monkey (@ARaised_Eyebrow) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/zucced/status/941038217150611462
Stick to vandalizing property, bro. https://t.co/55J5TbdrRM
— RBe (@RBPundit) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/SeanOQuin/status/941042124824379393
We can't be fighting a misinformation campaign with our own lies. This is not even close to how it will work. By lying like this you are discrediting a good cause https://t.co/uy5mt2sUF0
— Jonathan Cooper (@The_Coopdogg) December 13, 2017
i actually wish this did happen so i could go back to being a human being and quit the internet https://t.co/FDIetQfauz
— scott vener (@brokemogul) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/rafeeudeen/status/941016729827803136
This is about as real as those Russian-funded memes of a horned Hillary Clinton arm-wrestling Jesus. Would a responsible media outlet like to weed out some of this fake news they’re supposedly so worried about?
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