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[NEWS] FCC votes to overturn net neutrality rules, tl;dr bye internet freedom
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otto-san:
also the FCC is honoring fake bot comments which is cool http://www.vocativ.com/431065/fcc-ajit-pai-net-neutrality-bots/
Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: Poliwhirl on May 19, 2017, 11:13:23 PM ---societal elites in america dont face repurcussions for their actions, if you havent noticed
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*lists politicians assassinated for their actions*
woops
--- Quote from: Foxscotch on May 19, 2017, 10:44:21 PM ---yeah FCC regulations are laws, dummy. the FCC may do some stupid stuff like censor radio but they're also the reason you can listen to a radio station at all
also I don't know what the hell you mean by those quotation marks but whatever it is there's a 90% chance you're wrong about it
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"enforcing" neutrality just sounded weird to me
I don't know why you think I'm against it because of that
and I say the FCC needs to go because not only does the bad outweigh the good with them (as clearly evidenced by the fact that they want to overturn net neutrality) but because they are basically useless these days
if you take in the facts that the FCC is an unelected body that shuts down comedians for their jokes and changes its mind on important issues on a whim it kinda overstates their accomplishments in technologically unifying the market for the communicative intellige-- you get what I mean
the idea that the telecommunications sector couldn't run itself now without the government's help, after all these years of doing it swimmingly, makes no sense to me
e-maxx:
comcast should forget off and die tbh
otto-san:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on May 24, 2017, 06:00:03 PM ---and I say the FCC needs to go because not only does the bad outweigh the good with them (as clearly evidenced by the fact that they want to overturn net neutrality) but because they are basically useless these days
if you take in the facts that the FCC is an unelected body that shuts down comedians for their jokes and changes its mind on important issues on a whim it kinda overstates their accomplishments in technologically unifying the market for the communicative intellige-- you get what I mean
the idea that the telecommunications sector couldn't run itself now without the government's help, after all these years of doing it swimmingly, makes no sense to me
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the FCC has been enforcing net neutrality since the obama administration, the republican party has been trying to undo this ever since and the guy that Annoying Orange put in as chairman finally put the reversal into motion. letting telecom run completely privately is a terrible idea, that would absolutely guarantee the destruction of net neutrality and all manner of abuse for businesses and consumers alike who all depend on internet, telephone, etc. for function. telecom is a major backbone of modern society and that's an immense amount of economic power to entrust to the private sector completely unchecked.
and i'd contend you don't want them to be elected because you don't want politicians looking for reelection every cycle in these chairs. you want people who are damn good at what they do and who know the industry well and know what's best for both telecom firms and consumers. if you put the seats up for national election, you get people who just want to play the political system to protect their jobs above all else. that's why the president appoints judges and executive positions, because we don't want these positions to be political. and for the longest time, they haven't been