Townhall/Marina Medvin:
Don’t be fooled by the terminology. Net neutrality isn’t a tech term that will be hard for you to comprehend. You will get it in an instant, I promise. It’s the same old socialism, just rebranded to make it tech-trendy.
There’s nothing neutral about net neutrality. It simply means everyone pays more, for things they need and don’t need, all indiscriminately, like taxes. Net neutrality is just internet socialism.
People who originally fought for net neutrality were afraid of “unregulated capitalism.” Red flags all over the place.
Why else did you think Democrats wanted it so badly?
Senate Democrats just voted to keep their collectivist legacy. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren; all 49 of them voted in favor of keeping net neutrality regulations. Because providers can otherwise dangerously “discriminate” if people pay more or less. “Discriminate” means apportion services based on how much providers are paid. Pay more, get more is terrible discrimination, according to the Democrats.
Democrat thought process: How dare you ask for the right to pay for better service! How dare you ask to pay less to save some money and not subsidize your neighbor’s internet! Everyone pays the same and gets the same. Government tells you what you need and what you pay.
Democrats argued Wednesday that if we repeal the regulations, the internet as we know it will come to end. Net neutrality didn’t even exist until three years ago when the Democrats passed the rules through the Democrat-controlled FCC. Was anyone feeling that their internet opportunities were hindered before 2015? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Maybe if you couldn’t afford the internet. But you’re not entitled to internet. Just as with everything else, you need to earn your money and pay for it if it’s worth anything to you. Same as any other service. more here
Totalitarian Left never stop in their quest to control free speech.
The internet backbone is a private entity as are most of the cable and fiber networks. The Democrats and some Republicans would really like to nationalize it – or at least control it as if it were public. They are just wrong.
Al Gore must be spinning in his grave…
It’s just the same ol’ equality of outcome crap being pushed in every way the left-collectivists can dream up.
We, The Party, will decide what is available on the shelves. And where those shelves will be allowed to be set. And how much we demand from the shelves’ minders, to ensure that “something” doesn’t happen to “their” shelves. And to ensure the shelf minders’ profitability, we will (hire someone else to) shoot you in the face and take all “your” stuff, should you attempt to buy from an unauthorized minder. And we will (not hire someone else to) shoot you in the face and take all “your” stuff, should you attempt to “do it yourself”, in a defiant act of counter-revolution.
But, since we allow the shelf minder to demand any price, and do not force you to purchase (though we reserve the right to make it a crime to not have) the goods on offer, we, The Party, are the party of Freedom™. No socialism to see here. Move along.
@Jimmy May 19, 2018 at 11:41 am
> The internet backbone is a private entity as are most of the cable and fiber networks.
I would be insulted that you’d even hope that I’d believe that. But the “fact” that you appear to believe that ANYONE would believe that is just, so, profoundly… sad.
Perhaps I should have used the plural “entities.” The carriers are not government owned. Their status as public or private corporations is irrelevant .
“Al Gore must be spinning in his grave…”
If ONLY…
@Jimmy May 19, 2018 at 12:24 pm
A government created entity, doing, exclusively, the tasks assigned it by the same government… if those tasks are regulated by the same government… is no longer an organ of that same government, because… well.. Science™! (or something…)
Look… I’m willing to agree that voting for “not the Democrats”, approved for election by the Democrats, because they’ve sworn that, if elected, they will comply with the acts of the Democrats, is not voting “for” the Democrats. (I have to… since the Republican repeal of… well… I’ll get back to you, after Google explains it to me.) But, I can NOT bring myself to voting “against” the Democrats. That wouldn’t be patriotic!