Posted on 12/16/2017 7:45:40 AM PST by WWII_Historian
The first great equalizer – the revolver – was invented back in the nineteenth century. The U.S. federal government, in accordance with the Second Amendment to the Constitution, as expected, withdrew from having discretionary control over revolvers. As a result, the chances of bad guys versus good guys have leveled off. And in the end, the mores of the Wild West have been replaced by a law-abiding (and armed to the teeth) America.
The second great equalizer – the internet – was also invented in America. The U.S. federal government, in accordance with the First Amendment to the Constitution, as expected, withdrew from control over the internet. As a result, the chances of bad guys versus good guys, from the point of view of the free distribution of information, have leveled off.
The exponential growth of the new industry continued until mid-2015. In that year, the Obama administration decided to implement government control over the internet. The P.R. campaign was conducted under the slogan "net neutrality." But the remarkable term "net neutrality" had nothing in common with either the net or its neutrality.
In the progressive, politically correct Newspeak, this term meant "government control over the redistribution of profits on the internet." Similarly, the term "global warming" has nothing to do with the rise in the temperature of the atmosphere; rather, in Newspeak, it means simply "a global redistribution of wealth."
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It was a new form of Ferinhigt 453*
It was a new form of Ferinhigt 453*
Really? Show me one alternative economic system that has produced a higher standard of living over the long run than capitalism.
“Net neutrality” was an obama payoff to Google and Facebook. Some of his biggest corporate supporters.
As I ask liberals - “net neutrality” was an obama regulation forced on America in mid 2015.
So tell me, what was so bad about the internet in the Spring of 2015 that you are afraid to go back to?
Taking over control of a government as a dictator and using it like a wallet has always outperformed capitalism 😂
Wasn't “BUNDLE” the think a slave carried on its back?
Yesterday Trump literally saved the Internet and freedom
1. The Internet grew very well for 20 years without Obama’s and soros’ “net neutrality”
2. Pai the FCC commissioner said in a video while being grilled by liberal rags like politico that a lot of small isps have not been able to expand their network because Obama passed this net neutrality bit of communism in 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrJe6fk_h94
3. Net Neutrality was just one move in a sequence of events to completely take over the internet. A sequence that happened so slowly none of you noticed it happening at all: This lays it all out :
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/152760068/the-globalist-takeover-of-the-internet
4.Soros funded and is behind this “net neutrality”
http://ijr.com/2015/03/270555-soros-groups-dropped-82-million-push-net-neutrality-interesting-thing-happened-placeholder/
5. This Net Neutrality would have allowed government to control the Internet which was their goal not any money savings or whatever their stupid spin is. We dodged a bullet and Trump literally saved America again.
6. We have 3 years of freedom left or 7 if Trump wins in 2020. not much longer once the marxists get their Net neutrality back in place many of you even here believe will be “good” for you. get a clue
You believed the communists’ (democrats) lies .
No, it was a new form of the Fairness Doctrine, only this time aimed at the internet, since all attempts to re-regulate AM radio have utterly failed.
Net neutrality is how they do internet in China, North Korea, Iran & Cuba, not here in the U.S.A. No Bill of Rights in those places.
Plus obama only got this communist Net neutrality bs in mid 2015 so all your and democrats lies about how bad it was back then in 2015 are just lies.
Your response:
Really? Show me one alternative economic system that has produced a higher standard of living over the long run than capitalism.I don't think you understand the concept of "creative destruction". The idea is that centralized control tends to be conservative, to prevent innovation and change. The stakeholders in the status quo can use their entrenched positions to leverage government power against innovations that threaten their regulated monopolies. Up until 1982 you could not buy a telephone handset for an extension line, you had to buy them from Ma Bell. It was illegal for non-Bell companies (MCI) to transmit microwave communications for third parties, only Bell was legally allowed to do so. No one could be a "common carrier" except Bell.
If the government regulates what content internet companies can carry, what they can charge and what level of service they provide, they are no longer in the business of serving customers, they are in the business of serving the government, and will focus attention on pleasing politicians rather than customers.
Search on the web for a movie by that name.
That's not true. You could buy handsets but not the telephone line from anyone other than Ma Bell. Also, natural monopolies (i.e., companies with a continually falling ATC curve as they get bigger) are regulated because it makes sense to allow them to have monopolistic powers.
Also, you are not talking about capitalism, but the regulation of capitalism, which is a political question, not an economic one. Perhaps I should have said unfettered capitalism outperforms other economic systems.
Do you think government regulation would make things cheaper???
“Creative Destruction” is a vital and necessary aspect of Capitalism. Buggy whip factories needed to be destroyed. So did rotary telephone makers. The typewriter repairman has seen his trade wiped out. Thank God!
Do you understand what is being said? Creative destruction is a necessary and valuable component of Capitialism. That’s what capitalism is the freedom to succeed and fail. The freedom to start a new business that destroys existing business. It allows businesses to fail even if it means wealth is destroyed and jobs are lost.
Yeah, and do let me know what you come up with.
That was one of the all time dumbest post I have ever read on FreeRepublic. If streaming your movies is your biggest concern maybe Daily Kos is the forum for you. Juvenal understood your type.
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