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Net Neutrality Bill Sails Through the House But Faces an Uncertain Political Future (washingtonpost.com)
House lawmakers on Wednesday approved a Democrat-backed bill (alternative source) that would restore rules requiring AT&T, Verizon and other Internet providers to treat all Web traffic equally, marking an early step toward reversing one of the most significant deregulatory moves of the Trump era. From a report: But the net neutrality measure is likely to stall from here, given strong Republican opposition in the GOP-controlled Senate and the White House, where aides to President Trump this week recommended that he veto the legislation if it ever reaches his desk. The House's proposal, which passed by a vote of 232-190, would reinstate federal regulations that had banned AT&T, Verizon and other broadband providers from blocking or slowing down customers' access to websites. Adopted in 2015 during the Obama administration, these net neutrality protections had the backing of tech giants and startups as well as consumer advocacy groups, which together argued that strong federal open Internet protections were necessary to preserve competition and allow consumers unfettered access to movies, music and other content of their choice.
My internet is still working for me for what I reasonably expect from my ISP for the price I am paying. If my ISP starts fiddling with my connection I'll pick another ISP.
Remember buying internet access is a voluntary transaction between two parties if you don't like the service pick someone else.
Yeah, I'll make sure to switch from my one cable provider to my one cable provider if they start acting up.
Because political parties are one-issue beasts, right?
How about we vote for candidates that are the best policy match for our individual views, without any predisposition to any party at all?
A "omg don't vote Republican" is not any more nuanced or informed than "I'll just vote the party ticket"
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There are about a thousand differences in policy. I have no idea how anyone votes GOP unless they're rightwing racist idiots. The GOP is trying to kill your healthcare, kill your Medicare and Medicaid and give everything to the rich while yelling at you to hate poor brown people. When Trump got elected, they went total smash & grab on the USC, the House and the Senate, and the WH.
The only thing that seems to unite Republicans is their support for the sexist, racist, moronic imbecile who is a lousy excuse for a President.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
Except that it isn't about a single issue. It's about a pattern.
Democrats could push a bill that says, "Every conservative will get a free million dollars paid for by the left" and it would still get blocked, for no other reason than because it was Democrats that pushed it. Republicans have a *demonstrated* track record of doing this exact thing.
Hell, they had a good two year period where they controlled ALL the major branches of government. And what did they do? They spent the overwhelming majority of time reversing anything and anything the Democrats so much as glanced at, no matter how sensible. Oh, and trying to blame Hillary for everything up to and including running a child prostitution ring out of a pizzeria. I have no idea if they've managed to accomplish anything useful because if they did, it was drowned out by near limitless barrage of nonsense.
The Democrats are not perfect. Very far from it, in fact. But they are the epitome of sanity compared to the GOP.
Way to respond without actually giving an example of how it could be done with the current infrastructure.
Abortion isn't murder.
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OK, let's look at some other issues:
Health care: Democrats are for it, want to improve it, Republicans want to make it worse, have fewer people covered.
Science: Democrats are for it, want to continue funding it, react appropriately to the results for subjects like climate change, Republicans want to defund it, think climate change is a myth
Arts: Democrats for funding it, Republicans eliminate funding for it
Immigration: Democrats are for reasonable immigration policy, Republicans for LOCKING CHILDREN in cages.
Abortion: Democrats are in favor of birth control, family planning, sex ed which reduce abortions, Republicans want to reduce access to those which are shown to increase unwanted pregnancies and abortion
Taxes: Democrats want people to pay taxes so the government can be funded, Republicans don't want rich people or corporations to pay taxes which increases deficits
It's pretty clear where the better vote is on all of these subjects.
Because /. has a large population of super-right-wing trolls that like to steer the conversation in a way that favors Republicans or Russia. You can usually tell based on their name: Anonymous Coward
Oh wait, there's about a bazillion others, and the Democrats are on the wrong side of most of them.
Like what? Interesting that you didn't bother to mention any of them...
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