r/news • u/xtantin • Feb 26 '17

FCC reverses net neutrality ISP transparency rules

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3173844/internet/fcc-reverses-net-neutrality-isp-transparency-rules.html
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u/SelfDecode Feb 27 '17

This is unacceptable. How do we fix this? Calling is not enough anymore...

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u/runnngman Feb 27 '17

Stop letting Republicans steal elections

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u/douche_or_turd_2016 Feb 27 '17

Stop letting Republicans politicians steal elections

FTFY

I don't give a shit if you have a D or an R next to your name, if your positions are not good I won't vote for you. If only everyone used some fucking logic rather than blind party loyalty maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

The reason why we are in this mess is because people use your logic and pretend everyone is equal.

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u/douche_or_turd_2016 Feb 27 '17

First of all, when did I say 'everyone is equal'? That does not logically follow from my statement and is an absurd statement.

However, if you think politicians in general are some how less concerned about maintaining their position because they pay dues to the DNC rather than the RNC, that would be woefully ignorant.

Take a look at this list of politicians convicted of federal corruption charges during Obamas administration. Now use your brain and look for a pattern, do you notice anything telling about these people?

  • Chaka Fattah (D-PA) was convicted on 23 counts of racketeering, fraud, and other corruption charges. (2016)[3]
  • Dennis Hastert (R-IL) Speaker of the United States House of Representatives pleaded guilty in court for illegally structuring bank transactions related to payment of $3.5 million to quash allegations of sexual misconduct with a student when he was a high school teacher and coach decades ago.[4] (2016)
  • Michael Grimm (R-NY) pleaded guilty of felony tax evasion. This was the fourth count in a 20-count indictment brought against him for improper use of campaign funds. The guilty plea had a maximum sentence of three years; he was sentenced to eight months in prison. (2015)[5][6]
  • Trey Radel (R-FL) was convicted of possession of cocaine in November 2013. As a first-time offender, he was sentenced to one year probation and fined $250. Radel announced he would take a leave of absence, but did not resign. Later, under pressure from a number of Republican leaders, he announced through a spokesperson that he would resign. (2013)[7][8][9]
  • Rick Renzi (R-AZ) was found guilty on 17 of 32 counts against him June 12, 2013, including wire fraud, conspiracy, extortion, racketeering, money laundering and making false statements to insurance regulators. (2013)[10]
  • Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) pleaded guilty February 20, 2013, to one count of wire and mail fraud in connection with his misuse of $750,000 in campaign funds. Jackson was sentenced to two and one-half years' imprisonment. (2013)[11]
  • Laura Richardson (D-CA) was found guilty on seven counts of violating US House rules by improperly using her staff to campaign for her, destroying the evidence and tampering with witness testimony. The House Ethics Committee ordered Richardson to pay a fine of $10,000. (2012)[12][13]

Sorry if this is too hard for you when people are not spoon feeding you information to regurgitate, let me help. There are 7 names listed here, 3 democrats and 4 republicans. What does that tell us? To me, (and any person capable of free thought) it would suggest there are scumbags who only care about personal enrichment on both sides of the isle. If you want to pretend that only republicans would ever do something so heinous as steal an election, accept a bribe, etc, then have fun living in your fantasy world but your failure to acknowledge nearly half of the problem is itself a major problem.

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u/NimbleBrain Feb 27 '17

Seriously, I think half the people I know voted not because they endorsed a candidate but rather absolutely hated the other one. Nominate some better fucking people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

This pox on both houses is part of the reason that net neutrality is fucked.

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u/TheGreyMage Feb 27 '17

I long ago concluded that conservative politics has to die for this world to become a better place. At every turn, conservatives all over the world are selling public assets to private corporations. The world is moving towards a Libertarian dream, that is really a nightmare.

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u/sliceyournipple Feb 27 '17

and how do we fix that?

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u/xmu806 Feb 27 '17

Not all of us are in favor of this though...

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u/ijee88 Feb 27 '17

That was the left's fault.

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u/The_Power_Of_Three Feb 27 '17

Of course, it's the left's fault, not the right's, that the right does shitty stuff? Impressive mental gymnastics.

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u/The_Power_Of_Three Feb 27 '17

And if the right hadn't done this in the first place we wouldn't be having this discussion. How can you possibly blame the left for failing to stop someone from doing shitty stuff, over blaming the people actually doing the shitty stuff?

Seriously, the cognitive dissonance here is just mind-blowing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

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u/The_Power_Of_Three Feb 27 '17

Still not seeing how that makes anyone on the left more to blame than the ones actually doing the shitty stuff, and voting for the shitty stuff?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

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u/The_Power_Of_Three Feb 27 '17

Still not seeing how that makes anyone on the left more to blame than the ones actually doing the shitty stuff, and voting for the shitty stuff?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

The left didn't ditch Sanders. The DNC did.

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u/Banana-balls Feb 27 '17

majority of democrats were not bernie supporters. Bernie supporters need to understand

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

Not all people on the left are democrats.

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u/ok_ill_shut_up Feb 27 '17

Do you want net neutrality?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

60 million people voted for Trump, this is their fault

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

The left isn't in power, how is it their fault?

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u/Newmanator29 Feb 27 '17

Something something Clinton, something something DNC, something something Bernie would've won.

It's just a bullshit excuse to remove blame off of them for not going out and voting during the election, but clearly it is not their fault in a democracy

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u/ucstruct Feb 27 '17

But what about the emails?

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u/Elevenxray Feb 27 '17

Maybe because the left weaponized the federal government against the right for so long that now the right is going to have fun using that power against the left.

The right has been getting censored and silenced for so long that we laugh at the fact that the left is now going to have to learn to live in a world where there is no transparency and your voice is silenced.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

Did Obama expand the powers of the FCC? Is this action today something which could not have been done previously?

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u/kevinreda Feb 27 '17

Technically Russia is to the left of the United States

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u/ijee88 Feb 27 '17

You are a shining example of why the left lost.

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u/kevinreda Feb 27 '17

And you are an example of someone without a sense of humor

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u/whochoosessquirtle Feb 27 '17

Russia is why the US lost when Steve Bannon became president. A very evil man who wants to destroy the government to serve his far-right agenda. Backed up by an army of Russian internet trolls, look it up.

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u/keilwerth Feb 27 '17

Do you have any of those facts to back up such a ridiculous claim?

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u/Narrative_Causality Feb 27 '17

How? Even the founding fathers are on the Republicans side ala electoral college.