On this fight, he’d lose. Even most leftists want the net left alone.
Based on the whitehouse’s track record with the internet, what could possibly go wrong?
I wasn’t sure on which way to lean on this topic, but not anymore! If Zero is for any topic it simply means that it is bad for me and all decent Americans.
The nationalized Internet “utility” will be subject to content regulation - that is the method by which the government will monitor ... whether or not ... the Providers of “Internet transmission speed” are in compliance with whatever is the leftists’ “executive order” of the day.
Again, it’s all about REGULATION OF INTERNET CONTENT ... ostensibly to monitor and control “transmission speeds.”
The government -aka the left - will then know directly, in addition to the progressives’ indirect metadata gathering via Google and Facebook, who you are and what your political leanings are.
Then, YOUR “Internet connection” will depend upon how politically correct YOU are.
So, decide.
YOU are for companies who provide access to the Internet, to determine your connection speed and transmission speed.
-OR-
YOU are for the government monitoring YOUR content, passing that thru its Thought Police Filter, and then controlling YOUR access.
If you want to defang cable companies and networks, forbid carriers from mandating you buy pre-bundled tiers of stations you don’t want. Require the nation’s cable companies to permit you to buy a tier of service and populate it with whatever stations you want to receive - and no more.
This issue is near and dear to his Millenial base.
The idea of having to pay more for Netflix downloads seems to cheese them off worse than unemployment does.
Consultants are probably telling Obama he SCROOOOD-up by not doing this before the election.
It’s hard to understand all the legal implications of this for the average person,so the best thing to do is to look at it this way.....if Obama wants it,it’s unlikely to be good for the citizens. They seem to purposely do things this way so people don’t understand what they got hung with until it’s too late. The internet should be left as is,but we could use some heavy restrictions on Obama & his enablers.
Over @ CNET there’s a big thread on this, 98% say NO and a few posters who are pretending to be conservatives shilling for it. I’m with all here, if 0 wants it, it’s heap bad medicine.
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It’s an old negotiating tactic.
Create a NEW outrage as a negotiating token to be given up in exchange for leaving prior outrages in place.
Counteroffer should be “You’re not getting away with ANY of these outrages!”