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It still should be written differently then. As a non-American this all reads quite... strange.
by Sujan 9y ago
It still should be written differently then. As a non-American this all reads quite... strange.
- aladin 9y agoit does
- dsr_ 9y agoMake suggestions, send them in. team@fightforthefuture.org
- StevePerkins 9y agoOh good grief. THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: Imagine an ISP writing some text about "the American Internet". Imagine that it gives the impression of the American Internet being isolated. That foreign entities shouldn't worry (or lobby), because changes to American law or regulation will have no impact on the rest of the world. In this scenario, I imagine there would be lots of comments about American arrogance. About how the Internet is more interconnected than that. About how ignorant Americans are, for not realizing that other nations' data flows through our pipes, and is subject to the whims of our legislators and regulators, etc. People on HN are always so bothered by everything. Too often on posts, you have to scroll halfway down the page to find any substantive, non-meta discussion... rather than arguments about font selection or CSS layout, or various political tangents that people find more interesting. At any rate, the U.S. is deserving of so many legitimate criticisms, the imagined grievance in this sub-thread is flatly absurd.
- noxToken 9y agoThat's not just HN. That's anywhere anything about America is discussed. No matter what side of an argument it is, there is always plenty of criticism of American sensibilities regardless of actual relevance. We get it: we're all pompous, obese, gun nuts who have no consideration for any other nation than 'murica. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, can we focus on the topic at hand?
- FussyZeus 9y agoWell the website is written by and for Americans, because it's an American law, being worked through the American system, to target American companies. Don't get me wrong, we need everybody's help we can get for this, but if they were trying to do the same in Germany it would be written by Germans, in German, and be targeting a German audience.
- rev_null 9y agoMuch like healthcare, it's safe to assume that discussions about net neutrality are specific to the USA as most first-world nations established this a while ago.