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| 12/14/2018
| James Freeman
Posted on 12/14/2018 7:08:56 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
Of all the anti-Trump hysterias of our age...the most absurd..:was the charge that last year’s repeal of an Obama-era regulation would break the Internet... the Internet is still working just fine and in many ways much better...
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It was bitter war an FR. There were plenty who staked their unlimited Netflix and porn on Obama big government regs. But Trump got this one right biggly.
To: FreedomNotSafety
Basically, Obama’s regulations for the internet were about fixing a problem which never existed, but was only imagined. So, undoing the regulations meant going back to when there was no problem, and to when nobody knew that the internet was broken. So, yeah, nobody would notice that the non-problem was undone. You can’t undo a problem which never existed.
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posted on
12/14/2018 7:14:10 PM PST
by
adorno
To: FreedomNotSafety
Net neutrality was explained to the public about as well as blockchain and string theory. As near as I could tell, it was some sort of feud between Big Content and Big Telecom.
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posted on
12/14/2018 7:14:11 PM PST
by
snarkpup
To: snarkpup
It was about government control, nothing else—as if there is not enough already.
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posted on
12/14/2018 7:23:05 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: FreedomNotSafety
Net Neutrality was pushed by the Google, Facebook and Netflix because they want someone else to pay for all the bandwidth they are using. RATs liked it because they got to lay their grubby hands all over Internet Freedoms. NPC’s (SJW’s or leftists) liked it because they were programmed to like it .
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posted on
12/14/2018 7:25:21 PM PST
by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
To: FreedomNotSafety
Yep, 3 big nationwide wireless networks with a variety of cheap resellers is not good enough. Llow bandwidth FR is not good enough. Using a few simple browser add-ons or a new browser to avoid any kind of censorship is not good enough.
No, the NN freaks want the government(!) to guarantee their right to unlimited HD streaming. The same government that is in bed with one political party and big media. Yeah, that'll work.
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posted on
12/14/2018 7:29:08 PM PST
by
palmer
(...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
Soros put big bucks into pro-NN propaganda.
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posted on
12/14/2018 7:29:45 PM PST
by
proust
(Justice delayed is injustice.)
To: FreedomNotSafety
I never knew what the fuss was about. I have experienced no difficulty using the inte
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posted on
12/14/2018 7:36:05 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: FreedomNotSafety
The government should keep its hands off the internet.
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posted on
12/14/2018 7:53:18 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
To: FreedomNotSafety
Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.
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posted on
12/14/2018 8:12:48 PM PST
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: adorno
The Obama regulations on the internet was all about control and nothing else
To: adorno
The Obama regulations on the internet was all about control and nothing else
To: Nateman
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posted on
12/15/2018 4:17:16 PM PST
by
YogicCowboy
("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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