Thanks, REPUBLICANS, for destroying the internet

Beautiful Day wrote: Thanks, REPUBLICANS, for destroying everything.

FIFY ^

Heck, I'm not even a political/partisan person, but more and more it just seems as though Republican politicians are out to stick it to the little guy. Or at least anyone who isn't extraordinarily rich. WTH?

Beautiful Day wrote:

Yeah, I'm sure everyone wants Comcast Streaming Services instead of Netflix.

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Dems voted yes not republicans

The real solution:

The NCTA called on Congress to conclusively settle the debate on net neutrality and adopt “bipartisan legislation that will end the decades-old legal controversy and permanently enshrine enforceable open internet principles in statute.”

In other words, the legislative branch is twiddling its thumb, and thereby allowed Trump admin to over-rule Obama 2015 rules (FCC power-grab). Likely the 9th Circuit will somehow think this is unconstitutional.

SayWhat, this was a party line vote. Don't be dumb, like Pai.

Small-ish Wallet wrote:

Heck, I'm not even a political/partisan person, but more and more it just seems as though Republican politicians are out to stick it to the little guy. Or at least anyone who isn't extraordinarily rich. WTH?

Err, “Heavy regulation always benefits the entrenched incumbents much more than the upstarts,”

Obama (2015 FCC) = heavy regulation to super-fund his tech buddies (entrenched incumbents).

Trump (2017 FTC) = benefiting the upstarts, allowing advances to help everyone far and wide, not just the billionaire tech Hillary-pocketed supporters of far-left Silicon Valley.

I don't care what side of the fence you're on. This vote helps no one except the ISPs, and having the legislation in place hurt no one except the ISPs. This is pure and simple corruption. Disgusting.

Umm, let's see..... in 2015, how much "pay-for-play" and "fast lanes" were there? Obama FCC made a fact-less assertion they needed to "preempt" this phantasmal possibility. As usual, the "solution in search of a problem" was a huge government power grab to cronies, not too mention the subsequent capitulation with ICANN.

Proponents of the 2015 rules argued that they were necessary to preemptively block ISPs from instituting “pay for play” plans and “fast lanes” for favored content, while throttling other lawful content.

The FCC chair disagreed, saying that the internet “wasn’t broken” in 2015, and that the rules have harmed consumers by throttling innovation and investment, as well as discouraging competition.

So much for the theory that "the little guy" is being hurt, when in reality he's missed out on two plus years of innovation, and paid more from discouraged competition (controlled only by oligarchic-sized providers).

Let's see: racial attacks against FCC chair, various antifa tactics like bomb threats at the hearing itself, etc. Clearly Left/Dems has lost their minds over this. Just because their tech-leech friends won't be controlling the $trillion-dollar Internet anymore?

The "Republicans" (FCC) have every constitutional right to "destroy" the internet. It's called politics.

The real issue is whether the Democrat-run FCC had any constitutional right to "save" it in 2015.

SayWhat2 wrote:

Beautiful Day wrote:

Yeah, I'm sure everyone wants Comcast Streaming Services instead of Netflix.

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Dems voted yes not republicans

wrong, schmuck.

The internet flourished for 25 years completely, utterly unregulated before the misnomered net neutrality law. If you say repealing it will “kill” the internet, you’re simply the dumbest f*ck alive and there is no point in arguing with you.

To OP: quit whining that your PornHub-endorsed "net neutrality" lost out.

Stop being butt-hurt wrote:

To OP: quit whining that your PornHub-endorsed "net neutrality" lost out.

Okay, so you're happy about the repeal. Can you explain how the regulation hurt you personally? Or conversely, how does its repeal help you?

Small-ish Wallet wrote:

Beautiful Day wrote: Thanks, REPUBLICANS, for destroying everything.

FIFY ^

Heck, I'm not even a political/partisan person, but more and more it just seems as though Republican politicians are out to stick it to the little guy. Or at least anyone who isn't extraordinarily rich. WTH?

Democrat-darling Planned Parenthood alone killed over 3000,000 little guys and girls last year. And taxpayers are forced to fund PP - thanks to Democrats - for about $500,000,000 per year.

Does this mean each post on LR will cost $5?

Dude, clearly you're not already a Dark Web user. Been like this for heaps already.

No one cares about you delta-level drones anyway.

repealing net neutrality rules is a disaster for everyone except the isp's and the politicians they donated to. startups, for instance, may face impossible hurdles when the keys to the internet are now in comcast's hands.