That Cruz quote is insane. Net neutrality will not be easily sold to the public as “radically left-wing”. Nobody is going to believe that shit.
It literally has neutrality right in the name!
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It’s not the name that makes it a centrist policy, it’s substance.
Hell, if policy names reflected their substance, then the GOP’s “protect children” initiatives would prioritize gun violence and not hating on RuPaul.
Yes, I know. Right on.
The NRA is an official child murder advocacy group.
T-Mobile, a US mobile carrier, currently throttles video streams to 480p. It's a pretty bad experience and I look forward to seeing it end.
The prior rules didn't say much about mobile carriers, and the new ones probably won't either
Have 4 different devices on T-Mobile, all stream at 1080, no clue what you're talking about.
During "peak hours" certain unlimited plans are throttled to 480p. It doesn't always happen.
It will get a new name given to it. Each perspective develops their own terminology in order to make their opponents stances seem less appealing.
The Affordable Care Act became Obamacare, because the name instills a partisan lean. And gun control became gun violence prevention because politicians realized advocating for "_____ Control" sounds authoritarian.
"If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet," Cruz said.
What the fuck jobs does this sack of butter think will be killed
“Obamacare for the Internet”
For all its flaws the ACA has worked out relatively well for most people. Is that a tactic that finds any purchase with anyone not already in the bag?
I understand its primary reason and you play to the base, but this seems short sighted even for the zodiac killer.
Ted Cruz knows that people were for the ACA and against Obamacare, so that's why he says this
Do you mean Rafael Cruz the migrant ? If people start to call it by his real name, and his status it would have some effects. I doubt the GOP would elect someone who isn't US born with a sound like latin forst name.
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anyone not already in the bag?
At this point, as far as I can tell, the GOP doesn't seem to give a shit about anyone not in the bag, their only goal is to keep everyone inside too scared to leave.
I don't know the individual mandate really messed me up one year. My workplace and the exchange were too expensive so I get fined for not having enough money. Meanwhile my employer's health insurance company made bank.
If the ACA had gone through without the individual mandate I would have been a lot happier. Go ahead and argue with me but unless you have a few hundred dollars to give me I am very unlikely to change my views. And before you start, yes I live in a state where the rate isnt $0.
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In Ted's defense he can't craft his statements from anything else. He's a horse shit man with horse shit thoughts using horse shit hands to do a horse shit job of anything he touches, which turns to horse shit.
His heart escapes this fate by not existing.
Hopefully we'll see the return of net neutrality. It was implemented the last time that the FCC was 3-2 dem, then it was revoked when that switched to 2-3. This is the first time that dems are in charge since that revocation.
For it to really stick, it needs to be enshrined in law. Until then it's just a temporary FCC policy that could get easily removed at some point in the future.
That depends on how long FCC is able to keep it implemented for, IMO.
Something that gets lost a lot in policy discussion is that once you implement a business regulatory policy like this, you create a constituency for that policy. It's an advantage in preserving hard fought gains but that also means the timelines need to work for it. The problem net neutrality faced the first time is that it was (a) late in Obama's presidency, (b) held up by court cases, and (c) reversed early on by Trump's FCC. There wasn't much time for the internet business community to build a business model around it.
If net neutrality is regulated into existence for 5+ years, at that point businesses will have come to rely on its existence. Taking it away will be harder, especially for a big pro-business party if it's getting an earful from megacorporations that want things to stay as they are.
Of course, I do agree that legislating it is the most robust option and would be the best course of action. I just don't see legislation as the only option with any longevity. FCC rules can be that if the timelines work.
I'm pretty sure that the GOP keeps a list of things that the Dems do expressly for the purposes of nullifying it the next time they have the chance. It may take them 50 years, coughRoecough but they just keep at it.
Imagine where we'd be if all that energy was turned to a more productive endeavor. Like, well, anything really.
Confirmation means she can, until it becomes clear that she isn't going to.
Then the excuses will start. And centrists will say that anyone who remembers this article "doesn't know how government works."
I'm saying this now because I intend to link back to this comment when it happens.
The only time we ever had net neutrality it was under a “centrist.” And yes, we will have it again, until another republican wins because actual centrists - people who equate both parties at every opportunity - didn’t vote, and encouraged people not to because it’s all “pointless.”
(Btw you are the enlightened centrist)
Also, people who reliably vote tend to get the policies they want. People who don’t vote tend to complain the most about not getting what they want.
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Let me steal someone else's thunder then, "you don't know how the government works!". I don't know either so me saying this is meaningless, but at least we skipped the "excuses" part lol
Five Republicans voted in favor of the Gomez nomination, according to the Senate Press Gallery. The Republican yes votes came from Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, and Todd Young of Indiana.
Yes, they are Republican. They made the right choice, and should be named and thanked vs focusing news on Cruz.
Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Jerry Moran (R-Kans.) did not vote.
Why not? This is your job.
Any vote Moran misses is a win for Kansas, and America.
Dunno about Booker but Moran is a moron.
Booker's confirmed sketchy as fuck. Sincerely, a New Jerseyan.
Fuck yeah. Shove a banana up Ajit Pai's ass while you're at it.
Gotta remove the excessively large coffee mug first.
I assume you mean a bunch and not a singular banana
Now make it a basic right and utility like water and electricity, PLEASE.
Ted Cruz can seriously pound some sand right now.
Question: can we expect net neutrality rules to change every 4/8 years with each new administration?
How will that impact everything, broadly speaking? Unstable rules and regs are hard to work around.
People were sending Ajit Pai death threats. Were they aware his rules would be reversed in4-8 years? It sure seemed serious a few years ago (not violently serious but a major issue for sure). I feel misled for not knowing regs will change real quick.
Just curious, I have no idea how this sort of thing works.
You can't know the outcome of general elections ahead of time, so there's no reason to feel misled.
I guess I meant I didn't realize these things can and do swing back and forth with the political pendulum. It just felt more permanent ish than that, idk.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Biden tried again in May with the nomination of Gomez, a State Department digital policy official who was previously deputy assistant secretary at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from 2009 to 2023.
"If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet," Cruz said.
The Republican yes votes came from Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, and Todd Young of Indiana.
Annoyed at how many vote no on a candidate as qualified and non-controversial as this," commented Harold Feld, senior VP and consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge.
Media advocacy group Free Press said the "unprecedented 32-month delay" that deadlocked the FCC "was the result of concerted efforts by the phone, cable, and broadcast lobbies to hamstring the agency that oversees their businesses.
Gomez's confirmation restores the agency's full complement of commissioners and provides a tie-breaking vote on issues related to diversifying media ownership, promoting broadband affordability and protecting the rights of Internet users."
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"If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet," Cruz said.
This is complete nonsense and I fail to believe he isn’t aware of that.
It doesn't need to make sense. Just vaguely associate the good thing with the bad trigger words and you've done all you need to do to convince the kind of people who think he's on their team.
Yet if he called it the affordable care act but for the internet he'd probably see an opposite reaction. People like their ACA. Years ago they found, people liked the ACA but not Obamacare. It's just that they didn't know they were one in the same. But they bought into the bogeyman scare tactics. Cruz knows what he's doing and it's definitely evil, again.
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