Republicans Create Rider To Stop Net Neutrality

[Synthaholic]

Is government "neutral?"

What does government have to do with it?

 

[Vanquish]

When has more government involvement in your day to day life ever given you more choices and freedom?

outlawing what i put in my mouth stops drugs which gives me the freedom to live

outlawing pesticides stops evil corporations from poisoning me which gives me the freedom to live

shall I go on?

Is an ISP the same as a drug or pesticide?

You keep making terrible comparisons after asking an open-ended question. I hope people don't rely on your writing or deductive skills at your work.

You asked an open-ended question looking for an example of day-to-day government control that amounted to freedom. I gave you two of many possible valid answers.

But I'll play.

It's not an ISP that you want to compare....it would be the censorship/unfair trade practices by an ISP that you'd want to compare to drugs or pesticides. Stamping all 3 of those things out would make my day-to-day life better.

Thanks for playing!!

 

[Revere]

I did not compare drugs and pesticides to ISPs. You did.

You want gifts from your ISP. If you don't like their service, you can go elsewhere.

 

[Synthaholic]

That's a business decision. Think they would cut off programming that beats its competition 2-1?

To remove the competition? They would no longer be beating anyone 2-1 if they were bounced from the biggest cable provider.

Why would the biggest cable provider settle for being the 4th biggest cable provider and do that?

Why would that happen?

Oh - you are of the belief that FOXNEWS is some mammothly watched network. It's not! It beats CNN and MSNBC, but that's not saying much. Cable news is not a large market. Disney's iCarly regularly beats almost everything on TV, and most cable channels beat FOX, or any news channel.

 

[Revere]

Is government "neutral?"

What does government have to do with it?

Who is the FCC? Government.

 

[Revere]

To remove the competition? They would no longer be beating anyone 2-1 if they were bounced from the biggest cable provider.

Why would the biggest cable provider settle for being the 4th biggest cable provider and do that?

Why would that happen?

Oh - you are of the belief that FOXNEWS is some mammothly watched network. It's not! It beats CNN and MSNBC, but that's not saying much. Cable news is not a large market. Disney's iCarly regularly beats almost everything on TV, and most cable channels beat FOX, or any news channel.

It's a business decision to carry it. No more, no less.

 

[Synthaholic]

Democrats had a chance to defund the war(s) as long ago as 2007.

Defunding a war is the cowardly way, and the American public would not allow it once the Republicans start crying their crocodile tears over the troops' welfare.

Ah, so they had the power to stop it, even ran on doing so, but did not.

Sorry your representative government didn't work for you.

It wasn't the only thing they ran on, by far.

Bush ran on being a uniter, not a divider. Sorry your representative government didn't work. Idiot.

 

[Revere]

Bush had an attack on the country dealt to him very early on. The country was as united as it could be at that time.

 

[Synthaholic]

Buy a different cell phone carrier's product, crybaby.

And then I would be restricted by that company.

I would rather have no restrictions and keep my freeeeeedom!!!!!

 

[Revere]

Why do you think you are entitled to gifts?

 

[SwordofDamocles]

Good.

It's good for politicians to put riders into unrelated bills to avoid an honest vote on something?


We'll remember that the next time the Dems do it and you bitch about it.

You know what they say, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Dems live for those types of riders. Put a sock in your suck.

 

[Synthaholic]

Is government "neutral?"

What does government have to do with it?

Who is the FCC? Government.

What specific action by the FCC do you object to?

 

[Revere]

All of Net Neutrality. Julius Genachowski needs to have his balls cut off by Congress.

 

[Synthaholic]

Why would the biggest cable provider settle for being the 4th biggest cable provider and do that?

Why would that happen?

Oh - you are of the belief that FOXNEWS is some mammothly watched network. It's not! It beats CNN and MSNBC, but that's not saying much. Cable news is not a large market. Disney's iCarly regularly beats almost everything on TV, and most cable channels beat FOX, or any news channel.

It's a business decision to carry it. No more, no less.

So if Comcast's new business decision upon acquiring NBC is to try to crush NBC's rivals, you are fine with that? If they maybe move FOXNEWS into the higher priced TV packages?

 

[Common Sense]

im still waiting on revere to tell me about all this different internet providers he has access to at his home. because it 1 phone guy, 1 cable guy and the wireless phone companies, who by chance also happen to be some of the same home phone companies.

 

[Vanquish]

I did not compare drugs and pesticides to ISPs. You did.

You want gifts from your ISP. If you don't like their service, you can go elsewhere.

What the hell are you smoking? I honestly I can't believe I feel compelled to respond to your idiocy when you either can't comprehend logic or are being purposefully ridiculous.

ISP came out of your mouth first. You asked an open-ended question about freedom. Sure, you had the comparison in your head BEFORE you asked the question...but you need to keep to what you wrote.

The correct comparison was as I stated it...ISP CENSORSHIP to drugs or pesticides.

God, what a fuckwit.

 

[Revere]

How can one ISP censor when there are several others which will give you content?

 

[Revere]

im still waiting on revere to tell me about all this different internet providers he has access to at his home. because it 1 phone guy, 1 cable guy and the wireless phone companies, who by chance also happen to be some of the same home phone companies.

So there's three choices already.

How many choices do taxpayers have to subsidize for me?

 

[Revere]

Why would that happen?

Oh - you are of the belief that FOXNEWS is some mammothly watched network. It's not! It beats CNN and MSNBC, but that's not saying much. Cable news is not a large market. Disney's iCarly regularly beats almost everything on TV, and most cable channels beat FOX, or any news channel.

It's a business decision to carry it. No more, no less.

So if Comcast's new business decision upon acquiring NBC is to try to crush NBC's rivals, you are fine with that? If they maybe move FOXNEWS into the higher priced TV packages?

It's a business decision. A bad one, and one they would likely not make.

 

[Revere]

Any cable carrier could do that now. Why don't they?