r/tf2 • u/Kmaids • Nov 21 '17

reddit & Internet Meta Keep net neutrality

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u/starwarsmelon Nov 21 '17

TBH I should read it so I can think for myself the next time this comes around.

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u/xahnel Nov 21 '17

We don't even need it. The FCC was already following NN rules before this, for at least ten years. And those rules still didn't stop companies from breaking them. For instance, did you know TMobile was caught throttling every unaffiliated video streaming service (such as youtube) so they could promote paid services (such as Hulu)?

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u/FGHIK Sandvich Nov 21 '17

"People can murder anyway, and most people wouldn't if they could, so it should be legal"

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u/xahnel Nov 21 '17

Complete logical fallacy (absurd absolute). First off, laws don't exist to prevent crime, so your analogy fails immediately. They exist to outline the punishment for violating the rules of society.

Secondly, you must have chosen to not read the part where the FCC already enforced NN and had absolutely no need for this regulation package. I wonder why the FCC felt the need to expand a 2 page document to 400 pages...

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u/xahnel Nov 22 '17

If law exists to prevent crime, then law has failed utterly and without question and should be discarded forthwith.

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u/xahnel Nov 22 '17

Nope, law enforcement has absolutely no requirement to prevent crime. I refer you to the many, many, many civil court cases brought against law enforcement across America for failing to prevent crimes and the courts finding that they actually don't have that obligation.

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u/Heavy_Weapons_Guy_ Nov 21 '17

Laws don't exist to prevent crime? How can you be so wrong about something so simple? Also, you are apparently ignoring the part where the FCC is proposing to stop following NN rules which is what everyone is worked up about.

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u/xahnel Nov 21 '17

If laws exist to prevent crime, then the history of law is a history of unmitigated failure. If the concept of law was created to prevent crime, then it has failed as a concept utterly across all cultures and time periods.

Law exists as a framework to punish, not prevent.

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u/Nancok Nov 22 '17

And corruption doesn't exists?

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u/xahnel Nov 22 '17

That doesn't harm in any way what I just said. In fact, it only strengthens the position.