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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.
What
It's just right-wing buzzword scrabble with that guy. No need to even speak in complete sentences, just say a bunch of words that your voters want to demonize, and take home the money.
"Radical" "Obamacare" "Left-wing" Triple word score!
I was honestly nodding my head in agreement until I got the the word investment-killing. Then I realized it was meant to sound bad lol
God damn, Cruz will molest talking points into a sentence by any means necessary. It's like he rolls dice each morning to decide which random words he has to slap together.
Drag shows are literally banning gas stoves through an Antifa deep state Obamacare abortion.
Political madlibs except you can't call them that because it has libs in it
HOLUP You're saying these drag shows are going to force abortions onto everyone in the United States and they plan on INCREASING TAXES!? Thanks Obama.
His constituents love Obamacare as long as you call it, “The Affordable Care Act” lol what a nutsack
It's just saying a bunch of bullshit and hoping that one of the things you say resonates with everyone.
If you don't get them by the first 3 lies, saying 'Obamacare' is guaranteed to rile them up.
As a Canadian I think it's hilarious that anyone thinks Joe Biden is the radical left.
Ted Cruz reminds me of a lot of people, but I hate him more than any of them.
No worries, the Democrats will do what the party does best with a majority - pretty much nothing.
Enough to say “see? We’re better than the other guys”, but not enough to even nudge the status quo.
I hate Ted Cruz so much.
Now let's get back to net neutrality and rules on social media.
I'm not holding my breath.
We'll probably see them lobbying to give ISPs additional taxpayer funds to 'expand' broadband access while redefining broadband to be anything above 150Kbps.
I laughed at this and then immediately died inside at the prospect.
Oh boy, I can't wait for nothing of any measurable significance to happen as a result of this.
They'll do nothing until there's a new GOP threat, and then they'll do nothing and blame it on the GOP. Rinse and repeat. We were never at war with Oceania.
"Nothing will fundamentally change."
I hate the cynical nihilism around here so much. It plays into the Republican and big business hands so well it might as well be propaganda.
We had net neutrality before under the Democrats. The Republicans got rid of it when they took power.
Bothsidesism is juvenile bullshit.
I hope they clap the cheeks of the lobbies and finalize net neutrality rules with no take-backsies. Then focus on actually improving the internet after that. Just....please get shit done. Quickly.
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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God Cruz is such a pos
I cannot even make sense of the Obamacare comparison... do people really fall for this word vomit? Sad.
Looks up the poll numbers for Approval of "Obamacare" and approval of "ACA" during the time. That should answer your question.
otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet
No one calls it that.
These radical leftist policies that hate money are Obamacare, abortions, jobkillers, Marxist, communist, Leninist, atheist, Jews, Muslims, French, gay and trans agendas, grooming, protesting, unions, paper cuts, workers rights, pronouns, bathrooms, diversity, work from home, and liberal college elites all rolled into one. And it’s coming out of your tv, taking your guns, and making you use an electric range in a coastal city.
It’s like they aren’t even trying anymore, just sprinkling emotional buzzwords around regardless of the topic.
"Up yours woke moralists!"
Dang, how could I miss woke!? Everything’s woke except the sheeple.
What took so long?
Republicans
NET NEUTRALITY NOW
I hope they don't fuck this up. It'd be really easy for these incompetent bastards to do something stupid like "all internet traffic must be given the same priority."
Traffic shaping is important. Certain packets, like those for real time transmission, have to be given priority (think packets for game movement or phone calls or video conferencing) whereas things that can be downloaded or buffered into larger packets (streaming video, file downloads) the packets can be transmitted with lower priority.
The important part of this is the shaping doesn't happen on a per origin basis, but shaping for purpose is critical. I'm hoping any regulation isn't the nonsense that was spelled out previously, it'd be a disaster because it's like the dumb asses didn't bother to consult actual network engineers before drafting the proposals.
I hope they do it right if they're gonna do it.
Is Rosenworcel still commissioner? I feel like she's the only one in recent memory to do something useful with the 'power' of the FCC
