Net Neutrality: Almost Gone
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Friday, August 25, 2023 18:29
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Now, as far as I've seen, "net neutrality" means the big bad government would be involved in your internet access only to the degree that they'd be there telling corporations they can't interfere with your internet access. I'm sure that's a sinister plot in someone's book...
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Quote:Thanks for the succinct point.
Now, as far as I've seen, "net neutrality" means the big bad government would be involved in your internet access only to the degree that they'd be there telling corporations they can't interfere with your internet access. I'm sure that's a sinister plot in someone's book...
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Thanks for the succinct point.
Now, as far as I've seen, "net neutrality" means the big bad government would be involved in your internet access only to the degree that they'd be there telling corporations they can't interfere with your internet access. I'm sure that's a sinister plot in someone's book...
Well, y'know... If you get right down to it, the Constitution itself is kinda the government telling you what you can and can't do, too. I'm surprised more people don't have a problem with that. ;)
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oooh. ouch. touche. 
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Quote:What blows my mind is how the US can be so great and the constitution SOOOO great but the US govt, which is bound by the constitution, is evil, while private corporations, which do as they damn well please, are A-OK.
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Originally posted by SignyM:Quote:Thanks for the succinct point.
Now, as far as I've seen, "net neutrality" means the big bad government would be involved in your internet access only to the degree that they'd be there telling corporations they can't interfere with your internet access. I'm sure that's a sinister plot in someone's book...
Well, y'know... If you get right down to it, the Constitution itself is kinda the government telling you what you can and can't do, too. I'm surprised more people don't have a problem with that. ;)
Huh?
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hmm-burble-blah, blah-blah-blah, take a left
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Exactly. Government absolutely is NOT to be trusted, ever, for anything. Meanwhile, corporations are do-gooders, and have only ever done what was in the best interests of Americans. Y'know, things like polluting lakes and rivers so much that they caught fire, and if you happened to fall in one of them, you'd be rushed to the emergency room.
Rappy thinks of that kind of treatment as a public service, no doubt...
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Other than the fact that Medicate is a unmitigated disaster ?
I'll assume you're referring to Medicare here; where do you get the "fact" that it's an "unmitigated disaster"? Peer-reviewed, non-partisan studies show quite the opposite: when uninsured people reach the age at which Medicare kicks in, their health overwhelmingly starts to IMPROVE.
It's odd that you'd call improving health in poorer populations an "unmitigated disaster".
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
corporations are do-gooders, and have only ever done what was in the best interests of Americans. Y'know, things like polluting lakes and rivers so much that they caught fire, and if you happened to fall in one of them, you'd be rushed to the emergency room.
Rappy thinks of that kind of treatment as a public service, no doubt...
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by Storymark:
Irony being if a Republican was in the White House, Rappy would be going on about how necessary it is for the Gov. to be involved in the internet for security reasons.
Nonsense. Is that the best you have ?
The truth hurts, boyo.
Anyone who's been around here long enough knows you'll bend over backwards to justify ANYTHING a Republican Admin does - and vilify everything a Democrat Admin does.
So, you're right, it IS nonsense - but it's Rappy's own brand of nonsense.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by Storymark:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
Irony being if a Republican was in the White House, Rappy would be going on about how necessary it is for the Gov. to be involved in the internet for security reasons.
Nonsense. Is that the best you have ?
The truth hurts, boyo.
Anyone who's been around here long enough knows you'll bend over backwards to justify ANYTHING a Republican Admin does - and vilify everything a Democrat Admin does.
So, you're right, it IS nonsense - but it's Rappy's own brand of nonsense.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
You're 100% right, of course. Rappy lionizes his idol Reagan, who offered us higher taxes, higher unemployment, bigger government, more than DOUBLED the national debt, and was a horrible, horrible racist to boot.
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions
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