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FCC Ignored Your Net Neutrality Comment, Unless You Made a 'Serious' Legal Argument (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The FCC received a record-breaking 22 million comments chiming in on the net neutrality debate, but from the sound of it, it's ignoring the vast majority of them. In a call with reporters yesterday discussing its plan to end net neutrality, a senior FCC official said that 7.5 million of those comments were the exact same letter, which was submitted using 45,000 fake email addresses. But even ignoring the potential spam, the commission said it didn't really care about the public's opinion on net neutrality unless it was phrased in unique legal terms. The vast majority of the 22 million comments were form letters, the official said, and unless those letters introduced new facts into the record or made serious legal arguments, they didn't have much bearing on the decision. The commission didn't care about comments that were only stating opinion. The FCC has been clear all year that it's focused on "quality" over "quantity" when it comes to comments on net neutrality. In fairness to the commission, this isn't an open vote. It's a deliberative process that weighs a lot of different factors to create policy that balances the interests of many stakeholders. But it still feels brazen hearing the commission staff repeatedly discount Americans' preference for consumer protections, simply because they aren't phrased in legal terms.
In the primary? If not you screwed up. I don't care what your reasons were, you done screwed up.
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Sorry.. you don't understand voting if you blame people for not voting a specific way. Votes do not belong to certain candidates. I vote for freedom... If I didn't vote Johnson, I'd have voted for Keninston, then Castle. Hillary and Trump aren't worth voting for. Just because a third party person voted third party doesn't mean they'd have voted a specific way otherwise. Greens didn't steal from Democrats, libertarians didn't steal from Republicans or Democrats. The vote doesn't belong to any party, it belongs and is placed by the people. Self governance and freedom are two points that must be fought for by the candidate to win my vote. Hillary supports neither, she'd never get my vote in a billion years. Trump has his own flaws, he'd get it the year before Hillary but no sooner.
Aka, enough with the blame game.
In the most recent Presidential election, we were given the choice between a candidate that was absolutely unacceptable and one whom we were willing to vote for, even if we had to hold our noses as we did. Which one was which is something that I'll leave as an exercise for the reader.
I have seen some buyers remorse on the R side. The D side seems preoccupied with reliving the past and speculating what small detail could have tipped it their way - ignoring the more obvious point that if they had only run a decent candidate it would have been an easy sweep.
Pro tips for 2018:
1) >50% of the population is white. Stop hating on white people and putting down whole states as racist deplorables.
2) Almost 50% of the population is male. Constantly criticizing men won't help your cause either.
3) Economics for the 99% is >330 times more important than corner cases like transgenders in the military. Focus on broad issues of real importance.
Citations:
https://www.urbandictionary.co... https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...