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Democrats Introduce 'Save the Internet Act' To Restore Net Neutrality (cnet.com)
As expected, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other House and Senate Democrats on Wednesday introduced the Save the Internet Act, which aims to restore open internet rules that were repealed in 2017. From a report: The Obama-era rules, which lasted from 2015 to 2018, banned broadband providers from slowing or blocking access to the internet or charging companies higher fees for faster access. Democrats in Congress have said the repeal allows for large broadband and wireless companies to "control people's online activities." "86 percent of Americans opposed Trump's assault on net neutrality, including 82 percent of Republicans," said Pelosi during the press conference on Wednesday. "With 'Save The Internet Act,' Democrats are honoring the will of the people." Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey tweeted out a copy of the bill on Wednesday, saying nearly every Democrat in the Senate had joined him to introduce it.
They don't want anything positive to happen during a Trump presidency. Trump asked congress to introduce such a bill to codify NN into law, not executive policy.
This is way too close to collusion, it's almost cooperation!
What progressive horseshit are they going to tack onto this bill so they can deliberately tank it and blame Trump?
Is as much as Democrat's claim NN stops ISPs from controlling activities it gave exemption's to companies like google and Facebook which did exactly what they are claiming their rules are preventing. The vast majority of censorship we seen on the internet happened while NN was in place from said companies. On top of all that they let Obama pretty much turn control most essential part of the internet over to the UN who lets be real that countries that have most strict control over internet information is in control of.
That needs to happen - I'm sick of the techno-fascists in san Francisco.
Bernie?
Yes PLEASE, give us Bernie, the guy who embraces the crazy left wing of your party... PLEASE! Talk about an entertaining election, the old aging socialist on the left and Trump standing clearly in the middle making Ole' Bernie look like the hypocritical leftist he is every day. It will be a land slide to the right, both in the House, the Senate AND the Whitehouse. It will be fun to watch... You do know that he's already behind in the polls right?
In fact, I may need to send Bernie a few dollars, just to make sure he has a chance this time.. That the Democrat party doesn't cheat him out of the primary win again with all their "super delegate" creative accounting and slight of hand.
I hear Hillary hasn't ruled out running yet... That would be fun too.
Seriously, if you think "Net Neutrality" or "Save the Internet" or what ever you want to call it today is going to help your chances, bring it on, power to you, whatever, just know, it's a show vote and nothing more. Also know that when push comes to shove, by the time the democrats get back into power this will be about as relevant as all the "blue laws" from the 60's are now.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
That was then...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/elections/
THIS is today.
I do hate to tell you this (ok, not really), but by all appearances, Trump would win the election today with Sanders as his opponent with far fewer competitive states than the previous election with Hillary. The one you want on your ticket is Biden.... He's polling the best of the flock right now, even though he's not actually IN the race officially yet. But the star player doesn't take the field until near the end anyway as they don't have to, they already have the donors lined up and willing to give, they don't have to do the "generate excitement" thing with the media.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
And if you ever doubted it, just browse a Slashdot thread at -1 a see where all the vindictiveness is coming from. I consider myself a somewhat leftist moderate, and there's just no way I can support the Democratic Party given the way it's currently lost its mind. Have you seen the anti-semitic comments coming from one of the new Democratic representatives? And the party won't flat-out condemn and censure her?!
You constantly see people screaming about "Trump is a traitor!" and how "Russia is buying our elections!" and then when pressed for evidence, they have ... nothing. Shouts of racism and sexism and every sort of -ism yet they ignore the blatant anti-semitism in their own party. It's blatant and ridiculous and I can't imagine supporting that party until they do a purge of the lunatic fringe that currently dominates the party.