Senate confirms Biden FCC pick as 5 Republicans join Democrats in 55-43 vote. Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”::Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”
That Cruz quote is insane. Net neutrality will not be easily sold to the public as “radically left-wing”. Nobody is going to believe that shit.
It literally has neutrality right in the name!
It’s not the name that makes it a centrist policy, it’s substance.
Hell, if policy names reflected their substance, then the GOP’s “protect children” initiatives would prioritize gun violence and not hating on RuPaul.
The NRA is an official child murder advocacy group.
Yes, I know. Right on.
T-Mobile, a US mobile carrier, currently throttles video streams to 480p. It’s a pretty bad experience and I look forward to seeing it end.
Have 4 different devices on T-Mobile, all stream at 1080, no clue what you’re talking about.
During “peak hours” certain unlimited plans are throttled to 480p. It doesn’t always happen.
The prior rules didn’t say much about mobile carriers, and the new ones probably won’t either
It will get a new name given to it. Each perspective develops their own terminology in order to make their opponents stances seem less appealing.
The Affordable Care Act became Obamacare, because the name instills a partisan lean. And gun control became gun violence prevention because politicians realized advocating for “_____ Control” sounds authoritarian.
“If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet,” Cruz said.
What the fuck jobs does this sack of butter think will be killed
Hopefully we’ll see the return of net neutrality. It was implemented the last time that the FCC was 3-2 dem, then it was revoked when that switched to 2-3. This is the first time that dems are in charge since that revocation.
For it to really stick, it needs to be enshrined in law. Until then it’s just a temporary FCC policy that could get easily removed at some point in the future.
That depends on how long FCC is able to keep it implemented for, IMO.
Something that gets lost a lot in policy discussion is that once you implement a business regulatory policy like this, you create a constituency for that policy. It’s an advantage in preserving hard fought gains but that also means the timelines need to work for it. The problem net neutrality faced the first time is that it was (a) late in Obama’s presidency, (b) held up by court cases, and (c) reversed early on by Trump’s FCC. There wasn’t much time for the internet business community to build a business model around it.
If net neutrality is regulated into existence for 5+ years, at that point businesses will have come to rely on its existence. Taking it away will be harder, especially for a big pro-business party if it’s getting an earful from megacorporations that want things to stay as they are.
Of course, I do agree that legislating it is the most robust option and would be the best course of action. I just don’t see legislation as the only option with any longevity. FCC rules can be that if the timelines work.
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Confirmation means she can, until it becomes clear that she isn’t going to.
Then the excuses will start. And centrists will say that anyone who remembers this article “doesn’t know how government works.”
I’m saying this now because I intend to link back to this comment when it happens.
The only time we ever had net neutrality it was under a “centrist.” And yes, we will have it again, until another republican wins because actual centrists - people who equate both parties at every opportunity - didn’t vote, and encouraged people not to because it’s all “pointless.”
(Btw you are the enlightened centrist)
Also, people who reliably vote tend to get the policies they want. People who don’t vote tend to complain the most about not getting what they want.
You’re angry.
Considering centrism a bad thing makes any opinion you have worthless.
What’s your take on separating an ideology from its proponents? Because while centrism in principle isn’t necessarily bad, I most frequently see self-described centrists equating people, usually on the left, protesting against a bad thing with people, usually on the right, doing the bad thing that’s being protested against, as a way of arguing that nothing should be done about those bad things. And that is a position that ultimately only runs interference for people doing bad things.
I’m not sure what you’re asking here. Do you want to know whether I think that a proponent of an ideology having a view I don’t like means that their ideology is evil? I do not.
Centrists believe this about anyone to their left and only their left.
Let me steal someone else’s thunder then, “you don’t know how the government works!”. I don’t know either so me saying this is meaningless, but at least we skipped the “excuses” part lol
Fuck yeah. Shove a banana up Ajit Pai’s ass while you’re at it.
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Gotta remove the excessively large coffee mug first.
I assume you mean a bunch and not a singular banana
Question: can we expect net neutrality rules to change every 4/8 years with each new administration?
How will that impact everything, broadly speaking? Unstable rules and regs are hard to work around.
People were sending Ajit Pai death threats. Were they aware his rules would be reversed in4-8 years? It sure seemed serious a few years ago (not violently serious but a major issue for sure). I feel misled for not knowing regs will change real quick.
Just curious, I have no idea how this sort of thing works.
You can’t know the outcome of general elections ahead of time, so there’s no reason to feel misled.
I guess I meant I didn’t realize these things can and do swing back and forth with the political pendulum. It just felt more permanent ish than that, idk.
Now make it a basic right and utility like water and electricity, PLEASE.
Ted Cruz can seriously pound some sand right now.
So we’re having American news shit everywhere now? Fantastic.
This particular “American news shit” has the potential to impact the entire internet.
Maybe quit being a whiny fucking baby.
Yeah. America still heard a lot about GDPR. Because some policies just change the whole internet.
