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2017-12-15 -Land of the Free

Regulators abolish 'net neutrality' rules in heated hearing that was stopped because of a BOMB threat

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Posted by Fred 2017-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Don't worry, the private sector will fix it as they do most things. No one asked you mental midgets to get involved anyway.

Consider it a Blessing to not have to regulate things you have no knowledge of.

And f off

Posted by newc 2017-12-15 01:05|| 2017-12-15 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 How dare you return the means of production from the agents of the proletariat who had already seized them in the name of the People(tm)! /s

Posted by P2kontheroad 2017-12-15 08:03|| 2017-12-15 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 But net neutrality was a promise of more Free Stuff™ and we kno, once promised, it can never be taken away on pain of a stage managed tantrum from the left.

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-12-15 08:10|| 2017-12-15 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Net Neutrality was guaranteed to keep smaller ISPs from entering the market with tons of regulation. The big boys can absorb the hit, the small ones can't.

Government choosing the winners. What a fascist idea...

Posted by DarthVader 2017-12-15 09:11|| 2017-12-15 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 And without that handful of multi-billion dollar corporations, as much as I dislike some of them, there would be no Internet. The alternative is for the government to provide all that infrastructure. Ready for that?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-12-15 09:46|| 2017-12-15 09:46|| Front Page Top

#6 The left would *love* for the government to provide and ~~rule~~ manage the internet.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-12-15 09:50|| 2017-12-15 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 It's so tempting to respond to their frantic bleatings on Arsebook but I keep politics off there because my wife dislikes all the whining that it brings.

Posted by Silentbrick 2017-12-15 10:47|| 2017-12-15 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 "Net Neutrality" is another one of those false eupharysms from the democrats that the actual regulations do exactly opposite what they are called. This net neutrality thing guarantees that blogs and on line services that do not give equal time to opposing ideas can be shut down...unless you are a democrat. Much like "Affordable Care Act" and "Consumer Credit Protection Acts".

And with a pack of lefties on the panel, all we would have left was big brother.

The left set in place a number of regulations that were supposed to be steppingstones to a socialist/leftist "paradise". Hillary was supposed to continue the work with the media running cover until they were disposable useful idiots of the left. Taken with the weaponizing of the IRS, EPA, DoJ, FBI, BLM, and other agencies, both literally and figuratively, we were on the verge of a totalitarian nightmare.

That's why Trump's election was such a big deal and that's why the left is going knuckles to the firewall to take him down. Too bad the Internet has a long memory and nothing can be said or done without a record.

Our democracy dodged a bullet with Trump. I don't think he is a very good POTUS, compared to other good POTUS in the past, but he is doing just enough good and unwinding just enough of the leftist BS that OBAMA and the democrats put into place to save our way of life.

The millennials and the snowflakes have no idea of what would have happened to their safe places and trigger warnings had Hillary been elected and the master plan put into place.

They should have been reading Trotsky instead of Alinsky to get an idea of what was to come.

I still don't understand what the IRS needed with armored cars...or BLM needing storm trooper SWAT teams.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2017-12-15 10:50|| 2017-12-15 10:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Those on the left think everything Obama is good and those on the right tend to think anything coming from Obama was bad. I always suspect alternative motives from Obama.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-15 11:34|| 2017-12-15 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't think he is a very good POTUS, compared to other good POTUS in the past,

I think the plural might be POTTI.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-15 13:09|| 2017-12-15 13:09|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't think he is a very good POTUS, compared to other good POTUS in the past,

This is one of those times when context is everything. Given what he has to deal with I think DT is doing all you could hope for.

The key here is that while Trump could "theoretically" do more, draining a swamp is hard for one person.

I hoped when he was elected (not my first choice by a ways) was that he would tear the masks off the treasonous Swamp creatures. He is doing that, hopefully that will be enough to ameliorate the corrupt status quo.

Posted by AlanC 2017-12-15 16:12|| 2017-12-15 16:12|| Front Page Top

#12 If something is done by executive order or by bureaucratic regulation it is much easier for the next administration to turn it around. It was not an act of Congress. My fear is the Dims get control of Congress soon and then make stuff like this truly law.

Posted by Cheretle Angeans6218 2017-12-15 20:29|| 2017-12-15 20:29|| Front Page Top

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