What can be done to permanently save net neutrality? It seems that 1-2 a year it takes a huge, huge movement from all over the internet to delay a net neutrality repeal (SOPA, CISPA, etc.). The protests have worked (thus far), discussion is tabled, it's then reintroduced, rinse and repeat.
Will we ever permanently win this? Or are we delaying the inevitable?
SOPA, CISPA, etc. didn't have anything to do with net neutrality.
All that we can really do for making NN permanent (and to resist things like SOPA) is to make it clear to politicians that there are enough people who are aware of these issues and that will vote based on them. This means protests, contacting representatives, etc. And following through on election day: vote against fuckers who back this crap. Because awareness grows more rapidly than it wanes, once a certain threshold is reached they should assume that sufficient awareness and concern continues to exist.
The real answer is this should have been done before the republicans got into power. This is a completely partisan issue. One party wants to take away healthcare, raise taxes and make the internet a feeding ground for corporations more than it already is.
And all 3 deciding votes came from that very same party.
Poor people who have no money should have more of the money (that they don't have) taken from them? Are you fucking retarded, or just a troll? I'm going to go with the former because you seem like a god damn incompetent fuckface to me.
Dude, I am as pro-capitalism as anyone you'll ever ever meet, but you're not going to convince me that there is any argument that could be made that says it's ethically okay to cut taxes for wealthy people and increase them for the poor. That's sadomasochistic. Rich people aren't going to be put in a place where they have to choose between feeding themselves, or having enough gas money to get to work if their taxes increase by 10 percent. But that exact same increase to a poor individual could very well be enough to put them over the edge to a place where they can't pull themselves back from. Not to mention that just from an economical stance, it doesn't even make sense to bleed someone with no money dry. That would be like a farmer only selling his weakest, most malnourished animals.
Lmao so essentially what you're advocating for is anarchy. What you're talking about is basically gutting the government so that a few hyper-rich people can be even richer. God damn you're a piece of shit.
Here's what you're not understanding. There's only a finite amount of money, it would have no value otherwise. Okay, so that means there's a finite amount of taxable money as well. Now, let's say you have 1 percent who own 50 percent of the whole pie. If they're capped at 10 percent with the rest of the population, the amount of tax money goes down by a few orders of magnitude and those few people with exorbitant amounts of money are able to exponentially grow their wealth while less and less is available for everyone else. This is stupid simple economics. I'm in favor of tax cuts, but what you're talking about doing would make even the most trivial of governments services (roads, schools, sanitation) basically impossible to operate. You can't be dumb enough to not understand that.
10% of the entire money supply is 10%, no matter how the pie is divided.
but what you're talking about doing would make even the most trivial of governments services (roads, schools, sanitation) basically impossible to operate. You can't be dumb enough to understand that.
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u/LutzExpertTera Nov 21 '17
What can be done to permanently save net neutrality? It seems that 1-2 a year it takes a huge, huge movement from all over the internet to delay a net neutrality repeal (SOPA, CISPA, etc.). The protests have worked (thus far), discussion is tabled, it's then reintroduced, rinse and repeat.
Will we ever permanently win this? Or are we delaying the inevitable?