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[Philly]

[Spider]

@non
The principal, yeah, but also the manipulative rhetoric. Basically, they are claiming they want to protect net neutrality by opposing it. They want to insulate gigantic conglomerates with no real competition...from competition by removing them from the influence free market forces.

And they couch it in language like:

"I hope that Feb. 26 doesn't go down in history as the time when the Internet moved from something that was driven by free-market innovation to something that's driven by bureaucratic decisionmaking," Thune says.

The whole point of this is to make sure that the free market is what's actually calling shots. What they want to do is allow the Comcasts and the Time Warners to pick and choose who wins and loses based on how much they can pay for priority data traffic, as opposed to actual competition and innovation.

They aren't ignorant. They're just corrupt.

[eynon81]

[The dane]

Here's an example of absurd propaganda for you, the current frontpage of Foxnews.com:



It's bad enough that they have the nonsense about government control of the internet and billions in new taxes, but what really bothers me is the picture they used. If you read the description it sounds like these people were protesting against the net neutrality rules, but if you look at the picture you can see a sign saying "Protect the internet from corporate greed", so clearly they were actual protesting in favor of the rules. Thus the picture is actually completely opposite to the text, but they pretend otherwise, probably because there aren't any protests in favor of letting the cable companies screw consumers.

[Philly]

[eynon81]

[The Comrade]

did you read the whole article? literally (and i mean that literally) every sentence is an attempt to generate controversy. also half of it is just propaganda.

[eynon81]

[Aaron]

eynon, just curious, what are the likelihoods that suing could actually roll this decision back?

[eynon81]