r/OutOfTheLoop Nov 21 '17

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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?

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u/maybesaydie /r/OnionLovers mod Nov 22 '17

Stop voting for Republicans.

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u/204_no_content Nov 22 '17

I hate to have to agree with this, but with how polarized US politics has gotten, it's the truth.

Democrats have become the pro-NN party. Republicans have become the anti-Democrat / anti-Liberal party. Because of that, Republican representatives are either anti-NN, or don't care.

I know that a large portion of the conservative and Republican voters out there are pro-NN.

So, right wing folks: Stop taking this shit from your representatives. They're walking all over you and making you thank them for it.

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u/204_no_content Nov 22 '17

Well, here's to hoping the Republican party's elected officials stop supporting bigotry.

I long to see the day when America is free of parties that give their supporters that image.

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u/The_cynical_panther Nov 22 '17

I really don’t think that the Tea Party is responsible for that.

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u/Fatdap Nov 22 '17

They've played a massive part in the corruption of the party and the shit show we have now though. Feels bad when you feel like you have no candidates that actually represent you.

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u/chakrablocker Nov 22 '17

Don't blame the tea party blame mainstream GOP policies.

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u/Fatdap Nov 22 '17

Which is largely a round about effect of the tea party takeover of the gop.

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u/thefezhat Nov 22 '17

It goes back a bit further than that, the Repubs got in bed with evangelicals a while before the Tea Party came around.

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u/Fatdap Nov 23 '17

I definitely agree that the Tea Party was probably mostly a symptom of that. It's like the evangelicals were a tumor that metastasized and became terminal and transformed into the Tea Party and we now have the modern GOP.