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Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality
99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes
"Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) submitted a rider yesterday to a bill on military and veterans' construction projects. The rider would, 'prohibit the FCC from using any appropriated funds to adopt, implement or otherwise litigate any network neutrality based rules, protocols or standards.' It is co-signed by six other Republican senators. We all knew this was coming after the last election removed most of the vocal supporters of net neutrality and supplanted them with pro-corporate Republicans."
If that was truly the case, the rider would have eliminated the FCC and not just tie its hands for one particular issue.
Seriously, though, it should be about pro-corporate and anti-corporate. It should be about pro-people and anti-people. As a group. Net neutrality gives more freedom to the few (the connectivity companies) and takes away from the rest (content providers, consumers).
What a dirty trick. Obama can't even veto it without voting against "military and veterans". I can see the black-and-white political ads with terrifying music in the background now.
More Twoson than Cupertino
And the Democrats also want to screw you over, so I'm not seeing a really great shift in my level of screwed here.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
You are very naive if you really mean that. AT&T and Comcast are private companies at the mercy of the market and have no power to force you to do anything. You don't depend on their whims in any way. FCC is a government organization with power to regulate the hell out of things that affect you, with a history of censorship and ever expanding mandate over forms of media that were not intended to be regulated by it when it was initially conceived. To quote from the Senate Republicans letter to FCC: "Whether and how the Internet should be regulated is something that America's elected representatives in Congress, not the Commission, should determine."
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Pounding a guy in the ass is just getting your rocks off. A reach-around? That would be kindof gay, wouldn't it?
clearly both of you are brainwashed. i say let them tax the rich. it's not going to solve any of the problems that the left pretends it's going to solve. just like the right wants perpetual war, because it makes us all safe. you're selling a load of shit just like the guys on the right. raise taxes on the rich. raise taxes on everyone. you're still fucked. and none of the problems will be solved. i'll be fine. but you'll be fucked -and wrong. hope that feels good in about 10 years. ...the only agreement I have with you anon, is that people should turn off beck, palin, and fox news in general.
but you should take your own advice. because they call it an idiot box for a reason. and you're hoovering up the other half of the output from the bozos on MSNBC, NPR, and CNN.
here's a thought. turn off the idiot box all together. you might even stop sounding like an idiot.