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How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Donald Trump's presidential election victory could have dire consequences for U.S. internet freedom and openness, according to several tech policy experts and public interest advocates surveyed by Motherboard on Wednesday. The Republican billionaire will likely seek to roll back hard-won consumer protections safeguarding net neutrality, the principle that all internet content should be equally accessible, as well as a host of other policies designed to protect consumers, ensure internet freedom, and promote broadband access, these experts and advocates said. In the wake of Trump's election victory, FCC Chairman Wheeler is likely to step down before the billionaire reality TV star is inaugurated in January. Incoming presidents traditionally have the prerogative to select the leader of FCC, which has broad regulatory power over the nation's cable, phone and satellite companies. It's unclear whom Trump might nominate to lead the FCC, but Ajit Pai, the Kansas-born Republican FCC commissioner and former Verizon lawyer, is likely to be a contender. Trump has tapped Jeffrey Eisenach, a conservative scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, to lead his telecom policy transition team, according to Politico. Eisenach is a well-known figure in right-wing telecommunications policy circles, with a reputation as a "crusader against regulation." One immediate consequence of Trump's election is a dimmer outlook for ATT's proposed $85 billion buyout of entertainment giant Time Warner. Last month, Trump vowed to block the deal, warning that it would result in "too much concentration of power in the hands of too few." Trump's ignorance about tech and telecom policy was on full display throughout the election season. For example, Trump blithely compared net neutrality to the FCC's old Fairness Doctrine, a bizarre and ignorant assertion for which he was roundly mocked. The Fairness Doctrine, which was eliminated decades ago, required media outlets to afford a "reasonable opportunity" for the airing of opposing views on major issues. Net neutrality has nothing to do with the Fairness Doctrine, but rather ensures that consumers have open, unfettered access to the internet. Net neutrality can't be torpedoed overnight. The FCC rules prohibiting online fast lanes and discriminatory broadband practices are now U.S. policy, and they can't be dismantled at the whim of an authoritarian president. But a Trump-backed, Republican-led FCC could simply stop enforcing the net neutrality policy, rendering it essentially toothless. That could unleash the nation's largest cable and phone companies, including Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, to expand controversial practices like "zero-rating" that are designed to circumvent net neutrality.
As the missiles descend and all the major metropolitan areas are bathed in nuclear hellfire, the neutrality of the Net will cease to be a concern as the former infrastructure drifts across the land in a radioactive cloud.
And Trump probably won't either, honestly. Hilarly have with how deep her hands were in Viacom.
This article is garbage propaganda.
The Republican billionaire will likely seek to roll back hard-won consumer protections PERIOD.
FTFY
I doubt that the Congressional Republicans can agree among themselves what they want to do with running the government. They haven't been able to do that under Obama for eight years. As a moderate conservative, I expect some bloodletting between the different factions.
If I follow the reasoning here.. there is a right wing conspiracy to help telcom steal the internet by preventing them from merging into stronger and more powerful concentrated media companies
Next slashdot article:
How President Trump Could Cancel Christmas
"surveyed by Motherboard " is all I needed to hear. This is through-and-through FUD. To best of my knowledge Trump is rather anti-media, and all big players that would benefit from NN repeal are also happen to be media.
Projections like this aren't helpful at all. He hasn't even taken office yet and people are trying to do their best to destroy him. Nice of you.
Net neutrality in the US is the least of our worries now. Trump will be able to get away with a lot of stuff like this because people are concentrating on the bigger issues.
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I'm not understanding how blocking the proposed takeover between AT&T and Time Warner would hurt net neutrality. It seems to me that blocking that (a deal between a telecom and content producer) would help net neutrality.
Really looking forward to Trump supporters apologizing for dumb shit he said and did 'to get elected'
The nightmare fuel is just begging.
He hasn't even been sworn in yet, but the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching has gone to DEFCON 5 already...
Clearly you're lying. Everyone knows that anyone who crosses Clinton gets shot during a mugging where the mugger forgets to take your wallet.
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Damn FCC just letting all the carriers run over them with this zero rating shit.
That's one of the things that net neutrality thing was intended to put a stop to!
Almost no one was doing it before it passed now damn near everybody's doing it.
I am getting really tired of all this "How President Trump could cause ${bad_effect}" ... c'mon everyone, pull up your big boy pants, and let's be more positive and work towards better results.
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Freedom of the internet is one of the things that got him elected. If HRC could shut it down, she would, to control the narrative and stop the skeletons from falling out of the closet.
Never mind the rest of the article, that one phrase right there encapsulates much of the problem. That one single phrase serves to illustrate exactly how much of a farce the next 4 years will be -- assuming he lasts that long.
Thank you for sharing your story. People here will try to silence you, to label you a troll, but we as a country are better than that. It's time for us all to unite!
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Yeah, the reaction from the blue collar people who elected him into office would be very bad.
Both may as well be true if every third article posted to slashdot for the next four years just talks about how America sucks now because...the president...
Seriously this is already starting to remind me of the crappy, overly dramatic/hyperbolic kdawson posts, which caused myself (and likely many others) to stop visiting slashdot because we'd rather read about tech rather than some dweeb share his chronic "politician induced" depression.
The sky isn't falling, the four horsemen aren't riding across the moors, just give it a fricking rest!
What happened to News for Nerds? Is it now Fear for Nerds?
Maybe we just need to start a "What Trump COULD do" thread and let the rest of us get on with life.
As the Beaverton reports:
"Donald Trumph, America's first sociopath president"
"Is this America's 9/11?"
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These predictions brought to you buy the same types of people who swore Trump wouldn't be the Republican nominee, and wouldn't be elected president. So take them with a grain of salt: everyone has been completely wrong about Trump so far regarding every material prediction.
If net neutrality would last exactly until a Republican gets in office... I mean, did you think there would never again be a Republican in office? Like, ever?
Valuable takeaways from the summary include:
"It's unclear whom Trump might nominate to lead the FCC"
and
"Trump blithely compared net neutrality to the FCC's old Fairness Doctrine"
It's reasonable and probable that Trump has barely thought about the issue.
The internet needs to be forked for the purposes of non-profit, non-competitive use.
Every "news" article that begins with "How" is a puff piece, and I refuse to read any of them, including this one.
Among all the things Trump can screw up, net neutrality is not the first one.
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I saw on TV Trump coming out of his transition meeting with Obama.
He had this "Oh Shit! What Have I gotten myself into." look on his face.
I think his first 100 days are going to be hard and fast and he's going to be so out of his depth that we're going to see some major fuckups.
And if he chooses more people like him for his cabinet, I'll be pretty concerned about what will happen. I"d rather he bring back W's people - that's how little faith I have in his ability to choose competent people.
Yes, I'll even take Dick Cheney back into the Whitehouse at some level.
I wish stories like this included a disclaimer. No one on the planet is opposed to network neutrality. Lots and lots of us are opposed to Network Neutrality, Inc.(TM) - a government overreach brought to you by corporate sponsors to use against their corporate opponents and customers which may or may not involve networks and certainly contains no neutrality.
Part of the reason we all hate the media so much is that they tend to switch back and forth between the concept and the instance in an intentionally deceptive way. Please, slashdot editors, for each story like this, insist that the submitter pick a meaning, tell us which, and stick to it.
See that "Preview" button?
The sun will rise in the east and set in the west. Life will go on, you aren't going to be rounded up and lead out of the country. You don't need to stay home from work because Hillary lost. I am sick and tired of these Democrats crying, weren't they the ones saying that the trump supportors are the ones wearing tinfoil hats. I didn't vote for either of these idiots, I only vote for my local issues in my county because my vote doesn't matter I live in california. Anyone with a "d" next to their name automatically wins. If I was forced to vote for one I would have voted for trump. So I guess that makes me a racists homophobic biggot lol. I always tell everyone I am not racists I hate everyone equally ;)
Dems are melting down faster than thought. Can't wait to laugh at what lies they cook up next.
All victims deserve to be believed.
Except you, because you said something nasty about a Clinton.
He's the president, he can hypothetically fix or ruin many things. Does every hypothesis need an article?
This kind of bullshit is just bait to create conflict, i personally don't mind the conflict I'm a Canadian and happy to watch you tear yourselves apart, but sick of bad journalism
Why was Net Neutrality considered an FCC/executive issue in the first place, instead of a problem for Congress? Was it just because the FCC was more responsive and Congress was dragging their feet, or is there some more principled justification?
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
There will never be any net 'neutrality' until we can work around the ISP problem with real ad hoc P2P networking.
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You keep using that word, I don't think you know what that means.
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I'd like to see a presidential candidate that was :
Tech Savvy.
Pro-environment.
Pro-life.
Pro-small business anti-multinational conglomerate.
Pro-states rights
Pro-immigration and Pro-immigrant.
Anti-torcher , Anti-war. Pro-military, pro-police, pro-civil rights, pro-black lives matter.
Not Anti-Muslim just anti-terrorist.
And willing to stop shoving all kinds of liberals or conservative agenda's down the throats of people who don't want them.
But the democrats didn't give me that one nor the republicans so I had to pick someone less then optimal. The internet won't be destroyed, maybe less useful, or useful in different ways. Still a few of the things on that list ranked as more important then net neutrality to me.
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Trump could destroy Net Neutrality.
Trump could invite Obama and Putin on a "The Bachelor" style third-wheel date
Trump could drop trou during his inauguration and moon the nation
Trump could do a lot of things ... but I wouldn't count on any of the things I listed.
First off, it wasn't an Obama thing, it was an FCC thing. So his decree to erase Obama's legacy won't matter here. Secondly, Trump is smart. Scary smart. Or he has some ridiculously smart advisors to whom he pays very close attention. His entire run was by the book. "Which book," you ask ... the book. Sun Tsu: Art of War (note, this post was made 8 months ago.) All that stupidity, all the sound bites ("mexican rapists"), all the vague promises ("Make America great again") ... it was all 100% intentional and by design.
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi
That said, Trump and/or his advisors are smart enough to know that killing Net Neutrality doesn't really get them anywhere. He didn't make any promises regarding it, so there's no reason for him to focus any attention there. And really, he's going to have his hands full building a wall and repealing health care. Comcast v Netflix is small potatoes that won't even register on his radar.
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Why do you hate America and not want it to be great again? Discuss.
... https://www.greatagain.gov/ser... This is a breath of fresh air if real. Anyone know this was coming? Trump's gotta know this will get FOIA'd eventually to see who he did or didn't hire. Dude's got balls.
anybody need a job...?
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1. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
2. Also, a closed mind gathers no info.
Number 2 is most slashdot numb nuts. Number is everyone else.
Continue on, I get a big kick out of the retarded stories and the retarded replies.
Just look at the posted quote! Trump is so evil he's already destroyed Motherboard's ability to use paragraph breaks. That bastard! Will have to add this to the list of reasons to burn things in the street this Saturday night.
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All funny and true ...
except the "first sociopath" part . Come on ... L.B.J., Theodore Roosevelt, probably Kennedy and lots more.
They're not all bad.
Yeah - and I thought we (general audience on slashdot) wanted that deal blocked.
It's strange seeing my liberal brethren suddenly want a larger more powerful corporation - and ATT no less!
This is just speculation, but not completely unfounded given that we know that Trump used to espouse much more liberal views in the past, and the fact that he was tricked into accepting Pence as VP - also given what is now confirmed about the Russian influence.
A well informed acquaintance of mine thinks Trump is under duress, make of it what you wish:
Well it is speculation. But there was quite a change politically about five years ago as specified by that informant. And I can't explain the look in his eyes sometimes. He just looks terrified. Like, I don't really want to be here, terrified. And something odd. When he went off about "Mexican rapists" and then tried to qualify that with that awkward "and I'm sure some of them are good people" that was almost like he was reluctant to say what he had just said about them. I was sort of bizarre. And he never did that again. Gestapo spank. I just don't think he controls anything. Who picked his VP? Bannon. And the first appearance trump had with him was just bizarre. Almost like he had no say in it. By all accounts he was tricked by Bannon into even meeting with him. And this was the guy he had foisted off on him because it would bring in the Evangelical vote and when exactly has the Trump Monster been even remotely religious? Or actually bought into their point of view. A Kremlin diplomat today finally admitted that they had been in contact with the trump campaign during the campaign.
Why? According to reports, Bannon has actually been running his campaign from day one. Behind the scenes. Why? Why wasn't he openly running the campaign and why was Manafort the front man?
To me, there is a direct connection from Putin, to Manafort to Bannon. Maybe they do have something on him and it would ruin him. I don' know, he really just doesn't seem to be actually enjoying himself or give the air of any real commitment to what his doing or be really in charge of anything. I think it is the Bannon/Pence administration and he is just the card board cut out they need to reassure the public. And quite often, I swear to God, he has this weird terrified, unhappy look in his eyes.
Another clickbait pile of lies from a lobbyist organization looking for a slashvertisement.
Some of which overran any net neutrality features that might otherwise have benefitted consumers.
Between the two Trump is an uncertainty. Clinton has a congressional voting record to answer for. The point is neither was a good option and now we've gotten the candidate who is percieved as worse but is unknown enough that he *COULD* be better. Sort of a schroedinger's cat of negativity. He'll probably be bad, but we can't be certain until he's sworn in as president. Clinton was more like a previously observed cat whose state was known.
I'd much rather see innovation instead of government regulation. I didn't vote for President Trump. However, on this issue, I hope we can be a bit more flexible in what ISPs and various information providers can do.
Lmftfy "How every copyrights holder is trying to destroy net neutrality". Please take your cognitive bias elsewhere.
Every other national politician has come up through the ranks and is driven by a quest for Power to control Policy. trump never has cared about policy unless it directly affected his plans. In older, pre 2016 interviews he would answer policy question without thought and tended towards what he likely heard on the NYC TV news - mildly liberal. He does not have a policy bone in his body. He really does not care about policy or politics. Like every other con man he sells you what ever you want. He is a narcissist who is driven to make money to be a bigger man. I believe the reason he ran for the presidency is to make money. To a great extent, the President and VP are exempt from most conflict of interest laws. Trump is not putting his wealth into a trust lake every other present has done for decades. It is perfectly legal for him to propose having the federal government buy the block across from trump tower, tear down what is there and put in a national park to increase the value of his tower. There is noting illegal from trump threatening republican congressional leadership with putting Elizabeth Warren on the supreme court unless they build such a park for him. Let me take a flyer and say that trump's plan is to use the presidency to become the first trillionaire bythe end of his first term. That means he has to make $684,931,506 per day. That is a lot of money to shake the county down in a day, but heck he is a hard worker. This guy is going to be like Silvio Berlusconi on a yuge dose of steroids. There is the whole social security trust fund that can be channeled into a new trump security investment company, because who would be smarter to mange the money??? I do think the republicans in congress will get their way with policy as they have leverage, but so does trump to get paid for every bill they want signed. I fear that in four years we will have an empty treasury and and caveman republican policies with supreme court seat sold to the highest bidders. Want a supreme that likes patents, no problem, just make the highest bid.
This is what happens when crazy scientists in Switzerland create a mini black hole using expensive colliders they don't understand. Now they've done it, they completely messed up the time-space continuum and put the entire world in an alternative reality with president Donald Trump... Where is Michael J. Fox when we need him?
Odd...I thought they committed suicide by shooting themselves in the back several times.
Seriously? The big news in tech for the next few weeks is "what is Trump going to do about issue X in tech" and you expect slashdot to ignore it?
There are other stories to read and comment on.
It's worse than propaganda, it's just FUD.
Those you mentioned seriously fucked some things up - faking an attack to drag the USA into a petty French colonial war, getting taken hook line and sinker by Stalin at Yalta and the incredibly fucking stupid brinkmanship that resulted in the Cuba missile crisis.
If you are hysterical over the election, please keep your mod points to yourself. Your personal feelings do not change the facts in this post.
No candidate is perfect, no president is perfect. Trump was not my first or even second choice. He is not a politician and he does not have much of an internal filter. That said, the hysteria on the left is ridiculous. People need to realize that he is only 1/3 of the government, he has no more power that Obama took and used with his phone and his pen. As long as you are not actively breaking any laws, you will be fine. If you are breaking laws, well, you have made that choice. (Criminals are ~5x more likely to be Democrat than Republican, which makes sense seeing Dems want criminals to be treated as if they are ill or at worst just made a mistake, whereas Republicans want to protect society from criminals, and if that means a long drop at the end of a short rope, thems the brakes for the criminal.)
We who did not vote for Obama have suffered through 8 years of his mismanagement and assaults on our constitutional rights. He has repeatedly attempted to infringe on 1st amendment free speech, and the 2nd amendment. The middle east is on fire, ISIS is on the rise, Europe is being invaded, the country is bankrupt with $19,190,000,000 in debt ($10.6T when Obama took office, but he called Bush un-American after Bush incurred $5.8T due in large part to 9-11 and the subsequent war on terror). Obama the dove was one bloodthirsty president, he has killed 3,491 people abroad by direct order using drone strikes.
Domestically there are 42% more people on food stamps than when Obama took office, home ownership is as low as it was in the 70's, we have the lowest labor participation rate (real unemployment) in 38 years (94,044,000 people not working). 1 in 5 households have no one working (just think about that for a minute)! Welfare enrollment is up 30% under Obama as well. Obamacare has turned out to be a colossal lie and everyone now knows that it is a massive indirect tax on the middle class to give insurance to the non-productive/uneducated/economically unproductive class in exchange for votes.
Bush inherited the war on terror from Clinton and Bush dealt with the 9-11 economic impact and took the fight to the terrorists. He did not blame Clinton and whine like a 4 year old.
Obama inherited the housing market crisis and a pacified, free Iraq and Afghanistan from Bush. Obama blamed Bush for 8 years, he took the real solution that had been crafted to deal with the housing market crisis (the government was going to buy up distressed properties in foreclosure and then slowly re-sell or rent them out to the residents as the housing market improved, which would have recouped most of the money laid out by the taxpayer). Instead Obama pissed it away on corporate give aways to his cronies (Solyndra/Tesla/NRG/etc. 75% of all stimulus money went to Obama supporters) which left the housing crisis largely un-solved and 5 years later had created zero new jobs directly from the stimulus. Obama compounded our economic problems with Obamacare, more environmental regulations, and the destruction of our coal industry. Obama left Iraq for political reasons, and EXACTLY what Bush said would happen in the power vacuum happened. Obama created ISIS and now we have over 4000 troops back in Iraq and Syria and ISIS has spread to 40 countries. Obama has presided over the weakest economic recovery since the great depression. Median household income is down thousands of dollars since Obama took office.
We on the other side have had a pretty bumpy 8 years, so suck it up, act like an adult and judge your new president by his actions and the new jobs that will likely be coming your way. Trump may truly want to improve the country for everyone, give him the chance to show you one way or the other before you become apoplectic.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
Good. Destroy it. It's socialist nonsense anyway. You want your dumb content, pay its true cost - including opportunity costs. Trump is going to burn your failed world to the ground. Drain the swamp!
Trump 2020!
...FCC Chairman Wheeler is likely to step down before the billionaire reality TV star is shot and killed along with Mike Pence and a slew of other retardlicans in January. Now is the winter of our discontent...
Requiring "Net neutrality" requires regulation which by definition limits freedom. The internet has succeeded so spectacularly because it was unregulated. Regulations stifle innovation and limit progress and consumer choice. Net neutrality limits not only the freedoms of the companies providing access to run their business as they see fit, but the consumers ability to choose the type and quality of services they can demand. Maybe my provider wants to charge Facebook a premium for a premium delivery. That is their right. If I don't like it, I can switch providers. Maybe I want to pay a premium for premium delivery of Netflix. I should have that option. What really boggles me is that we think it is a good idea to allow the FCC to regulate the internet in exchange for "neutrality" The fracking FCC!!!! They regulate communications by radio (spectrum allocation), television, wire (telephone), satellite and cable. These are NOT the regulatory models we want applied to the internet. Maybe people have forgotten, but these are crappy distribution networks the internet was intended improve upon and replace. Asking the FCC to regulate the internet on behalf of the consumer is like asking the fox to guard the hen house on behalf of the eggs.
Because I am a European and do not want a mongrel failed nation of untermensch to lead the world. That role rightfully belongs to us sophisticated and smart Aryans, the Herrenvolk! Sieg heil!
you are talking out of your ass.
Aren't people being throttled and have data caps now?
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Dumping Tom Wheeler would be about putting big telco over consumers.
That would be a bad deal for the folks that Mr. Trump is here to help.
It might not be a bad idea to keep Mr Wheeler and see how it works out.
There will likely be squalks for big telco.
But supposedly, nobody owns Mr. Trump.
It should be as easy to defend in Congress,
Bipartisan, who like Comcast, importance of the Internet, etc.
Might even net positive on political capital.
It should be an interesting decision point to see.
But a dire prediction seems premature.
I suspect the next dire prediction will be ACA.
Overall, that's a bad deal, but there are parts that are useful and popular.
Some adjustments are desperately needed.
A worse alternative is to just let it collapse and have single payer.
If the man is a good at finding deals, he certainly has plenty of opportunities.
Public reactions to Trump may hound him out of the presidency even before he takes the oath of office. First all loyal Americans must avoid using any Trump owned properties such as golf courses or hotels. Next we will want to investigate in persistent, unending, close inspection of any individual involved with Trump including their family members. After all, money gets moved around through family members, relatives and supporters so getting into their lives with a magnifying glass is important. Total stonewalling and obstruction as well as massive marches on Washington sufficient to shut down the city should be frequent. We can make this jerk so miserable that he quites before he begins. And that rape trial for the 13 year old that he is accused of raping should be very, very public as well. Some of the women he groped may well bring forward criminal charges as well. A sled ride to hell awaits Trump. Can we impeach before he takes the oath?
The GOP platform specifically states that it is against net neutrality
The term - Net Neutrality - regardless of what it actually is, seems to suggest that it's about regulating the Internet so that the contents/coverage are balanced b/w Left and Right. So people on the Right see this as an attempt to censor them in case the coverage weighs out heavily in their favor. The big communications companies - the Comcasts, the AT&T's, et al see this as an opportunity to sabotage the attempts to force them to deliver all content via any of their channels. Like if you don't have a TV but just an Internet connection, you should be able to watch the Super Bowl w/o having to subscribe to their TV services. That is something that rank & file GOPers wouldn't have a problem w/, but the idea of content regulation, which is what the term 'net neutrality' suggests, leaves them w/ a more sinister impression of what it is about
If the proponents of Net Neutrality want it to succeed, they should segregate the part about content being even from the part about access being available regardless of whether someone subscribes to broadcast TV or Internet only
What a total crock. Did congress ever vote on the FCC's policy? No, they did not. The FCC just decided to use a new, dubious interpretation of a depression era law in order to enact the measure entirely on their own. And indications were that the White House told them to do it. The media has breathlessly sung the praises of so-called "net neutrality", but even before that screwball Trump humiliated them in the election, there was a high probability that a higher court would strike the measure down because the Democrat-controlled FCC had no authority to enact it in the first place.
TCP/IP is independent of the medium, this law deals with the medium of transmission. It looks like wired ISP protection hiding as consumer protection. Cable company protection from TCP/IP delivery innovation.
So the Republicans have now deteriorated to the point where they actively pursue policies that would undermine the US's internet economy, which is leading the world and spurs innovation globally and should be one of the prides of the nation. It's astounding to think that the GOP once used to be the quintessential pro-business party, whereas these days the majority of business leaders support the Democratic Party, if only for the fact that they seem to churn out fewer religious bigots and all-around numbnuts.
President-ELECT Trump cannot do anything until he is inaugurated 20 Jan 2017. Get some (any!!) facts. This entire post is an insult to ALL liberals && conspiracy-theoristsl The use of "could' and "likely" is easier to use than links to actual quotations, public records, and events.
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Amazing how easy it is to get hens to vote for foxes these days
There is no such thing as a political election where the voters aren't hens, and the candidates aren't foxes. Replace "these days" with "since the beginning of time", and you're good to go. It's completely natural, even guaranteed, that the people interested in gaining coercive authority over others are the same people who would use that power for their own self-interest.
If this is how Slashdot is going to be for the next 4 yrs, I'm leaving.
What is with all the speculation that he will do the worst that anyone can imagine in every situation before he has even taken office? This is all by the same media that was found to be completely full of shit the entire race. Now that it's over am I supposed to accept their bullshit once again and act like they are just reporting the news, not pushing an agenda. For fucks sakes! We have ADHD of history now where people learn nothing from the past or want to ignore it. It is utterly mind boggling how you can put the evidence in some ones face on something and they will go out of their way to ignore it and on other things they are all in and accept it as truth with little more than hearsay. WTF? Does no one research anything any more or look to seek out the actual truth on matters any more? It's like everyone has become like the people in the hospital at the end of 50 first dates.
Do you really think the protests are anywhere near what the media has claimed they are? They wouldn't even tell the truth about how many were showing up at Hilary rallies but I am suppose to think this time they are factual?
...he intends to drink the blood of our children, too.
He's yugely, biggly into that.
The bulk of the Trump stories here have been political, not tech related
This comes from someone who wants to make it easier to file libel suits to silence critics. He also supports mergers to eliminate competition and filed a take down request against a site that sold "dump trump" T-shirts claiming trademark infringement.