Cruz fires back at Franken on net neutrality

CNN ^ | 11/17/2014 | Ashley Killough and Sara Fischer

[SMCC1]

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, hit back at Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota, Monday for his comments that Cruz doesn't know what he is talking about when it comes to net neutrality. Cruz used a video that he uploaded to YouTube and social media that shows the senator explaining what net neutrality is and how it works.

[Ouderkirk]

Franken was not elected...he stole that election through stuffing the ballot box. Manufacture enough votes to win, and declare victory. Coleman was a weak candidate anyway but there was nothing to recommend Franken to such a position, and his tenure there has been a warmed over joke.

[Slyfox]

Thanks for the Cruz bio. He is a man of great principles.

[hal ogen]

The degenerate clown franken “attended” haaaarvad, apparently not graduating. How long did he “attend”? I believe he is some sick sort of fool.

[nascarnation]

wiki (dubious?) says he graduated cum laude in 1973

[GeronL]

clown college?

[TurboZamboni]

Either one and he’d shiite his diaper.

[JudyinCanada]

lol - yes, that’s it!

[palmer]

Net neutrality is a pro-market regulation that prevents content-providers who also own ISPs from establishing what was once called a "vertical trust" and using their dual position as content providers (already holding a government granted monopoly called "copyright" on specific content) and ISPs to simultaneously disadvantage competing content providers and competing ISPs.

No, it is simply about having the two bandwidth hogs, YouTube and Netflix, pay for their bandwidth, nothing more than that. In quite a few countries, China, Iran, Arab countries, etc, there is one, very non-neutral provider. Instead of neutrality they have thousands of developers worldwide ensuring neutral access to content. Obviously it doesn't require government regulation to have neutrality, it is almost entirely up to the users

What Obama's net neutrality starts with is giving drivel from Netflix and YouTube a free ride on all users of large ISPs and ordinary non-drivel-watchers like myself. There is obviously one form of neutrality that the ISPs can neuter and that is streaming video, particularly from Netflix. But if people want to download that video they can do it without streaming via Tor.

As you are quite aware, the government won't stop there. They will micromanage all types of neutrality that can easily be worked around by the private sector. Right now any content that anybody wants can be made available with the same techniques that censored Chinese users have available to them. The exception, like I said is streaming video which is easy to throttle and should be throttled. But the exception to the exception is that if you want the video that can be obtained easily also, just not streaming.

Once government has the ability to enforce "neutrality" they will enforce the distribution of drivel, namely streaming video, above all other types of content. It is not censorship of sites like this that we would have to worry about since that is not currently a problem anywhere even in China. But it is the crowding of the channels with drivel which slows down everything else to the point of making it unavailable in some cases like my own (rural and poorly provisioned ISP).

[joshua c]

Nothing is perfect.

But it is always worse once the government gets involved.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Franken attended Harvard University

I went to Harvard, then I went to the Science Museum, and then to Logan Airport.

[Mastador1]

Just back away, Al. You are not remotely in Cruz’s league.

Franken revealed his true intellectual stature in Trading Places, it was a breeze for him, no acting involved whatsoever!

[DBrow]

From Harvard Magazine:

“It was almost inevitable that Blake’s Jewish wrestler and honor student glided into Harvard, graduating cum laude in general studies. But his real field of concentration was comedy. In Minneapolis, he’d worked up an act—some improvisation, some sketch comedy—with his Blake classmate Tom Davis. By Franken’s senior year at Harvard, Davis was sleeping on his couch.”

[SoConPubbie]

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[2001convSVT]

I hope he can add President of the United States to his resume.

[Gene Eric]

Al “Oatmeal” Franken.

[Paleo Conservative]

Every time I see Ted Cruz speak, I see why Dems and RINOs want to demonize him and marginalize him: if you hear the real Ted Cruz, he comes across as intelligent, informed, convincing, and NOT EXTREME. So his opponents must destroy his image before the public has the chance to see the real Ted Cruz.

I got to sit right across the table from him at a meeting with local Republican activists in the summer of 2011. He was absolutely brilliant. He talked for about his campaign's strategy for knocking off Dewhurst. He didn't refer to notes at any time during the meeting. He doesn't need a teleprompter.

[davius]

'I went to Harvard, then I went to the Science Museum, and then to Logan Airport. '

Great! Are you available to pilot a charter flight to St. Thomas over the holidays?

[cynwoody]

Here is the Cruz video ........2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oRoG8SqChE

That guy should be President of the United States!

[cynwoody]

When libs try to demean Rush Limbaugh by saying he never graduated from college, my reply is: "Neither did Walter Cronkite." I'm surprised how many libs don't know that.

Krankcase was a libtard who misguided the country.

Jobs and Gates also failed to graduate, but, politics aside, they both accomplished much!

[Fresh Wind]

Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[35]

Betcha that's no longer the case, LOL!