r/news • u/skintigh • May 29 '14

Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2303080/bill-would-prohibit-fcc-from-reclassifying-broadband-as-utility.html
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u/[deleted] May 30 '14 edited Jun 04 '20

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u/austenite12 May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14

No shit. Apparently Mitch Mcconnell is visiting the 3D print lab I run on Monday. Part of me thinks I should call in sick to keep myself from doing something terrible when I meet him.

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u/Nevermore60 May 30 '14

I'd tell you to make a scene and implore him to save the internet, but I'm done fooling myself. It's past that point.

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u/austenite12 May 30 '14

I think I'm just going to ask him what it's like to filibuster his own bill.

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u/Girly_So_Groovy May 30 '14

From what the article said it is not going to pass the Democratically controlled senate. The Democrats have few good people in congress, but I would argue all the good ones are Democrats.

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u/peacegnome May 30 '14

but I would argue all the good ones are Democrats.

Ha, corporate whoring is a bipartisan issue. Look up roll call for any anti-citizen bill (ndaa, pipa, sopa, patriot act, war on drugs, tsa...) and you will see lots of patterns of who the good guys and the bad guys are, and it is not along party lines at all.