The US House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it. By a 269-152 vote that fell largely along party lines, the House Republican leadership mustered enough votes to reject a Democrat-backed amendment that would have enshrined stiff Net neutrality regulations into federal law and prevented broadband providers from treating some Internet sites differently from others.
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Member since:2006-01-01
The government is a union. In fact it's a lot of unions themselves in a union. Deal with it. This is not negotiable. It is not a lie or a conspiracy. It exists to strike compromises between all of the competing interests of human populations. Every act of preventing one form of oppression is another form of oppression. And the point, which you so casually ignore, is that these people are making their own choice which is to create laws to govern their country as they see fit. One side for the regulation, the other opposing it. Stop characterizing your ideology as people making their own decisions and your opposition not making their own decisions. What you want is for people to ignore the power that they have in government so that they can become bogged down in the minutiae of every single utility they benefit from because it more closely approximates people following the rules you favor. Just say that, instead of all of this nonsense about self-selection. They are simply using tools you do not favor.
Member since:2005-10-02
You are grossly misinterpreting all I've wrote, while quoting me for statements that are not mine.
The moment you're passing a law, you are not making your own decision, but rather you are making a decision on other persons behalf.
Anyway, don't even think you know what I want, and making people ignore their power is the least I want. Actually I want the opposite.
However, passing laws are a bad way to use your power. Every new law gives less freedom, and that is a bad thing IMHO.
You clearly diagree, and so be it.
Member since:
2005-10-02
The government is NOT a union. That' a lie they like you to believe. The government is - in reality - a tool to oppress freedom, and not enhance it.
The House may be a union, but that one has ceased to work, if it ever has.
The solution is not to create more regulating laws, but to remove the existing regulating laws.