Posted on 12/17/2017 7:57:21 AM PST by Kaslin
Now that net neutrality has ended and the internet’s been shut down, hordes of confused peasants roam America’s formerly bustling highways on foot, trudging along as they stare forlornly at their now-useless mobile devices which used to connect them to the rest of the world. Those few of you clever enough to have hooked into the Russian-run dark web and are still able to read the content at Hot Air may have some good news to share with them, however. Net neutrality is coming back, baby!
There’s just one catch. You’ll have to go to California to enjoy it so you’d best loot some comfortable hiking shoes from one of the abandoned Walmarts and hit the road.
California state Sen. Scott Wiener vowed Thursday to introduce a bill that would require net neutrality in California.
Following the Federal Communication Commission’s repeal of net neutrality Thursday, Wiener (D-San Francisco) wrote on a Medium post:
“There are several ways we can bring net neutrality to California. California can regulate business practices to require net neutrality, condition state contracts on adhering to net neutrality, and require net neutrality as part of cable franchise agreements, as a condition to using the public right-of-way for internet infrastructure, and in broadband packages.”
Net neutrality, a principle that Internet service providers should provide equal access to web content, has been fiercely championed by tech entrepreneurs.
Being a states’ rights advocate, I suppose California can do whatever they like, at least up to a point. But has anyone explained to senator Wiener how this whole internet thing works? (It’s like a series of tubes, you see…)
California doesn’t have their own internet. (Which is kind of a shame because if they did, the rest of us could simply filter them out.) So if they’re going to impose state-level regulations on entities which operate on a national and, in most cases, international basis, that means that those providers and associated entities are going to need to set up an entirely separate service structure for users inside that one state. (Well… possibly two states, since Washington is talking about it too.) That’s going to cost extra most likely. And who is going to pay those additional costs for special services? If you said the service providers will just suck it up, buy yourself a ticket to Venezuela where such thinking is all the rage.
Of course, the end users will have to foot the bill. Which means that Californians will wind up paying more for the same service everyone else is receiving because of state-level government regulations. Of course, we’re talking about California here, so that’s just a fact of life already. Perhaps nobody will notice.
Or perhaps they will. Earlier this year the citizens of the Golden State finally rose up on their hind legs and began working to repeal a massive gas tax increase which was put in place to fund even more of California’s endless mandates and schemes. That one jacked up their state gas taxes to nearly fifty cents a gallon. When all of their internet services become similarly more expensive, will they push back again?
Best of luck, Californians. Remember… when the revolution begins, you’ll want to chat with the folks who voted in all those gun control laws too.
You get it. The left is all about control. Control brings more regulation, more fees, fines, etc. They want to control your cars, your homes, your electricity, your rent, utility usage, your income, your food, your rights...
They want total, complete control of everything.
Controlifornia
Yes, Disney is located in CA, with it’s
corporate headquarters being in Burbank, California
They tried that with egg farming.
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Trying that.
Each farmer has a farm in one state, they do not, as a rule, have egg farms in many states - internet providers are usually nationwide, so the analogy does not work.
You would be asking people who are already leery of providers prices to pay even more. As the article said at the end: “At the end of the day, the least profitable or economical type of product to produce is the kind no one will buy.”
We need to give Liberals their own territory.
It is said that Texas is now the new preferred destination for illegals so they best be aware, especially since they already have a growing cancer in the university cities. I have noticed the scourge spreading from the east coast too!
Unfortunately for California, they’ve imported enough Mexicans to ensure a permanent socialist majority; there aren’t enough net producers in the state to overcome their votes, so yeah, this is what they get from now on.
Too late. The lefts mostly control all the U.S. Coastlines and coastal population centers. This is some of the best prime real-estate. So what do patriots do? They fled those areas. Eventually they’ll run out of places to run to.
This is the asshat that introduced the bill to not make knowingly transmitting HIV a felony.
Good luck with that Jerry!
Indeed more big government it’s the Ca way.
I don’t know much about Net Neutrality but I do know The Affordable Healthcare Act has cost me about $40,000 so far.
Actually there are only a small number of farm firms supplying most of the eggs for America. When the law was passed it was exactly the same situation. All of the farms were forced to start the changeover because they all sold eggs in California and the economics of two product lines.
The states — Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky and Iowa — failed to show how the law would affect them and not just individual egg farmers, a unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. The court upheld a lower court decision that dismissed the lawsuit.
California voters approved a ballot initiative in 2008 that set the space requirements for egg-laying hens in the state. The standards say chickens must spend most of their day with enough space to lie down, stand up, turn around and fully extend their limbs.
The measure gave farmers until 2015 to comply.
California egg farmers raised concerns that the measure would put them at a competitive disadvantage with their counterparts in other states. In 2010, California legislators expanded the law to ban the sale of eggs from any hens that were not raised in compliance with California’s animal care standards. The California law cites concerns about protecting people from salmonella and other illnesses.
The six states argued that the law would force their egg farmers to stop selling in California or spend hundreds of millions of dollars complying with the California standard. Ninth Circuit Judge Susan Graber said that argument did not give the states standing to file suit.
“The idea of trying to restore the restraints of NN at a state level is nearly impossible. “
It’s just our nutball Marxist legislature pissing into the wind again! Just more money to be spent on litigation to put them in their place.
“The standards say chickens must spend most of their day with enough space to lie down, stand up, turn around and fully extend their limbs.”
Wow, that is a small amount of decency to ask for. Who would be against this? What a nation we’ve become.
Having said that, I am against Net Neutrality!
Too bad they would even have to pass a law like that. My dad had a bunch of chickens and we sold the eggs when I was a kid, and we would never had thought about treating them inhumane.
I just bought a t-shirt yesterday that says, “Don’t California my Texas.”
Fruits and nuts.
They’re.
So true. As human beings we need to remember the Lord strongly rebuked the cruelty being done to just one little donkey. Nothing escapes His eye.
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