Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26028116-20150219134620/@comment-4598272-20150219231207

Remember Barack Obama who organized his election campaign also with the internet. Most people can't live without internet anymore. As well I saw in the articles that they talked about safety of digital data and net neutrality. Indeed digital data can get lost easier than old types of media such as books or old photos. Net neutrality also has another meaning according to Wikipedia:

Net neutrality Internet neutrality, or net equality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003 as an extension of the longstanding concept of a common carrier.

To be honest, it says nothing about shutting down the internet. Last year there also has been something about net neutrality, which also was thought to be against the internet. The government just wants that data and services of the same kind are treated the same. Nobody talked about shutting down the internet. Even if somebody posted that news you also have to think whether it is a trustable source.