Two great tastes that taste great together
By smartyboots • Apr 29th, 2008 • Category: TechnologyNet neutrality and losing your virginity – what on earth could they have in common?
What is net neutrality? It’s the principal that the network provider (that is, your internet service provider) shouldn’t be allowed limit the content their clients have access to online – otherwise, if your ISP was owned by Time/Warner, they might not want to let you download a trailer for a Disney movie, using the argument that they shouldn’t have to provide resources to promote their competitors’ product.
And what is losing your virginity? That’s having sex for the first time – there’s some controversy about what actually qualifies as losing your virginity, but it’s general considered to be intercourse. Historically, the word virgin referred to a young woman with no sexual experience, but in modern usage, the term can apply regardless of age or gender, and it’s often assumed that people who use the internet a lot are likely to be virgins. (I don’t have any idea why – I’m on the internet all the time and I get all the action I could ever want. Your mileage may vary.)
This is where Tania Derveaux comes in – she promises she will make love with every virgin who defends the internet! As long as you are over 18, a virgin, and can provide proof that you have been defending net neutrality, Tania will go to where you are at her expense, and “perform sexual intercourse (services)” with you. (No word on whether second virginity counts.)
Ms. Derveaux’s offer is a response to the CEO of Virgin Media in the UK announcing that “this net neutrality thing is a load of bollocks”. Virgin Media UK plans to treat their partners’ content to more bandwidth, and those who don’t pay Virgin a premium will have their bandwidth restricted. Naturally, this isn’t going over very well with a lot of folks.
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Not coincidentally, Ms. Derveaux ran last year for the Belgian senate as a member of the Belgian political party NEE. She rose to internet stardom with an ad in which she promised 40,000 blowjobs as a parody of mainstream politicians promising what NEE considered an absurd number of new jobs if they were elected. The blowjobs were ultimately delivered virtually, via YouTube.
Due to the presence of activists like Tania, and the fact that you can buy beer from vending machines at the train station, I hereby declare Belgium to be awesome.
smartyboots >> a blogger here at Good Vibrations.
Smartyboots likes technology, comic books and country music. She is a member of The Whoreshoes, San Francisco's premiere all-female country band.
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