Obama ruins the internet

thaiboxerken said:
One of the arguments is that ISP's will regulate themselves and the free market will be the enforcement........

Remember when rivers were on fire? That was industry regulating themselves.
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And remember the Fed's Alan Greenspan's pitiful after-his-job speech, he was crushed his idol Ayn Rand wasn't right. The markets did not self regulate, they caused the biggest crash since the Great Depression.
 
lobosrul5 said:
Dems can't possibly get 66 seats in the Senate, only 8 seats held by the GOP are up for grabs, and really only 2 that are realistic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2018
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Eleven more months of Trump and the current batch of GOP scum and I'd suggest all bets are off.

Trump fires Mueller and the GOP legislators do nothing, you want to bet the voters don't start a symbolic armed rebellion?

Look what these idiots are already doing, passing a tax plan only ~30% of the country approves, trying to squelch the ACA when at the moment ~60% of the voters approve of it.

Voters are manipulatable, but I don't think they are that stupid.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Eleven more months of Trump and the current batch of GOP scum and I'd suggest all bets are off.

Trump fires Mueller and the GOP legislators do nothing, you want to bet the voters don't start a symbolic armed rebellion?

Look what these idiots are already doing, passing a tax plan only ~30% of the country approves, trying to squelch the ACA when at the moment ~60% of the voters approve of it.

Voters are manipulatable, but I don't think they are that stupid.
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They'd already been payed off before Trump. 90%+ of the GOP is "in favor"* of NN. We'd be having the same NN conversation had a "mainstream" Republican been elected. Impeachment proceedings will start in Jan of 2019, of that I have no doubt. Removal from office... Don't hold your breath.

*As In bribed to be in favor see:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp-web-browsing-privacy-fire-sale
 
IIIClovisIII said:
Just because they can prioritize doesn't mean they will
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Sure, and just because they were prioritizing traffic before the 2015 regulations doesn’t mean they will after. Maybe for-profit companies in near monopolistic control oppose network neutrality on altruistic principle alone.
 
Upchurch said:
Sure, and just because they were prioritizing traffic before the 2015 regulations doesn’t mean they will after. Maybe for-profit companies in near monopolistic control oppose network neutrality on altruistic principle alone.
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Near monopolistic? *gasp* But, but... Pai is telling us that the free market will make it allllll better. That must mean that what are effectively monopolies will totally not be a problem for the free market! Just like we should trust that recently dead people calling for the repeal of net neutrality is a sign from heaven about what we should be doing.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Should I be proud that my Rep was one of the highest paid?

Anything over a million means he's technically a call girl, right?
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I'm going to be contacting a Colorado Senator and Representative today to express outrage that they sold us out so cheaply. I guess they didn't know how much other scumbags were charging.
 
casebro said:
The list was not marked with party affiliation. Anybody know the score thereof?
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"Wednesday afternoon, 107 Republican members of Congress sent Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai a letter supporting his plan to repeal net neutrality protections ahead of the commission’s Thursday vote."
 
Finster said:
"Wednesday afternoon, 107 Republican members of Congress sent Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai a letter supporting his plan to repeal net neutrality protections ahead of the commission’s Thursday vote."
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That has to be just the House. There are senators that I'm pretty sure I've heard are on the ISP payroll.
 
At this point I'm fairly certain that congress won't act and that the current court challenges will probably loose. I also feel confident that none of the providers will do anything bad before next years mid-term elections. So I'm going to make sure I keep up my membership in the EFF so that they can keep monitoring the situation and trying to get legally enforced neutrality back.
 
Finster said:
"Wednesday afternoon, 107 Republican members of Congress sent Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai a letter supporting his plan to repeal net neutrality protections ahead of the commission’s Thursday vote."
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That does leave about 200 Repub and 200 Dems that did not sign? Methinks it ain't over yet.
 
I can't wade through the sea of "there was no net neutrality before 2015 and everything was fine" lunacy.

Within about 24-36 hours I watched history rewrite itself.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.
 
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