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1 posted on 12/16/2017 7:45:40 AM PST by WWII_Historian
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2 posted on 12/16/2017 7:51:10 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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It was a new form of Ferinhigt 453*


3 posted on 12/16/2017 7:52:19 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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It was a new form of Ferinhigt 453*


4 posted on 12/16/2017 7:53:08 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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...the business on the internet returns to the old and well known bosom of "creative destruction" that exists under capitalism...

Really? Show me one alternative economic system that has produced a higher standard of living over the long run than capitalism.

5 posted on 12/16/2017 7:56:40 AM PST by econjack
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“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?


6 posted on 12/16/2017 8:02:21 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Bad for us, good for big media. Want Netflix or something else that streams, well we can give that to u for a little more (profit to us). We will just add that to your BUNDLE.

Wasn't “BUNDLE” the think a slave carried on its back?

8 posted on 12/16/2017 8:07:41 AM PST by Herakles (Diversity is a globalist scam for power!)
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My ISP is Verizon, not my favorite company in the world, but at least they recognize that their business is facilitating electrons over wires [photons over fiber these days]. If they start to mess with that there are all kinds of other options - cell for one, satellite, cable, etc.

I would imagine that lots of companies would love to have the competitive advantage of not messing with their customers access to the internet when some other big player decides to.

30 posted on 12/16/2017 11:05:44 AM PST by AndyJackson
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This article is total lies. Net neutrality is a feature that the internet always has had. It’s not a change made by Obama. There was no change, just a codification of the way the internet always worked. This new ruling by Trump will allow a change.

There is a false implication going around that somehow, net neutrality is like the “fairness doctrine” in broadcasting and that it was used by Obama to somehow crack down on conservatives. That’s not what NN means at all. It’s technical concept about how internet traffic flows.

I cannot believe the level of craziness that has infected conservatives and other right wing people on this issue in the last few months. It’s just like the pro-Iraq war hysteria.

People are mindlessly taking sides on this when they don’t understand it at all just to be contrary to what some liberals are saying. That’s not a smart way to decide policy issues.

This is going to to backfire, just like the Iraq war did. When Comcast starts giving slower speeds to websites that allow “hate speech” and then blocks access entirely, people are going to be sorry. We are seeing the same phenomenon here with the mindless group think, lack of knowledge about the facts and triumphalism before the results are in as we saw in the build up to the Iraq debacle.


33 posted on 12/16/2017 2:12:44 PM PST by WatchungEagle
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