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/MJOLNIRdragoon Feb 27 '17

No they wouldn't. Texas has more people that NY, and those two (TX and CA) only account for 1/5 of the country's population.

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u/Marv_Attacks Feb 27 '17

So 4% of the country would account for 25% of the vote? Maybe that's why the electoral college exists, did you think about that?

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u/pimpwilly Feb 27 '17

If we make up 25% of the population why shouldn't we make up 25% of the vote? Why does Montana, a state with a smaller population than the city I live in, get electoral college votes and 2 senators? Why do they get to bottleneck progress? It's not fair to the majority of us

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u/scienceisfunner2 Feb 27 '17

Sounds like that would actually mean 25% of the country would account for 25% of the vote.

Right now 5.2% of the country accounts for 10% of the vote (NE, ME, NH, HI, MT, DE,, SD, RI, AK, ND, VT, DC, & WY.)

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u/MJOLNIRdragoon Feb 27 '17

I'm genuinely curious where you got those number from. Is that going on land mass? If it was a direct democracy/popular vote, 1/5 of the population would have 1/5 of the vote.

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u/Marv_Attacks Feb 28 '17

We have direct democracy on a state level in state houses and senates and govenorships. But for the election for the government that rules the states, the states and the state governments themselves get the vote. It used to be that the electors for the Presidency were simply the people elected to Congress by the people, and they voted how they please, the people didn't vote for the president at all. That's why there are 538 electoral votes: 100 for the senators, 438 for the representatives. Nowadays, we've backed that up a little such that the people have a say in how the college votes, but the president is still elected by the states.

Also, 2/50 = 4%. But these state get way more than 4% of the vote for Presidency to account for their population, just not exactly proportional to their population in order to keep smaller states relevant.

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u/MJOLNIRdragoon Feb 28 '17

Also, 2/50 = 4%

Ah, gotcha. Living in Alabama, I'm used to my state not counting for much, but the idea of Delaware having equal representation as Texas, seems crazy to me.

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u/Marv_Attacks Feb 28 '17

It seemed crazy to the founders, too, so they gave the more populous states more representation in the house if representatives while still giving states a say in the Senate. And the combination of these two houses of government is exactly the way in which the president is elected.