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Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

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aparch said:
Burger King explains Net Nutrality:
https://youtu.be/ltzy5vRmN8Q
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Just thinking about this stuff.

I'm a pro biz guy, who does not support net neutrality. The pro biz community would say...let businesses create new models and that can be a win as it creates new jobs/growth. The #1 problem is that with our disfunctioning government...its doubtful that we'll be able to effectively police any collusion that could occur. And the potential risk/damage of collusion/prejudice/bias is not worth the additional positive business opportunities.
 
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unofan said:
Bless your heart, of course you don't. Here's my shocked face.
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Reading his quote I think he meant to say he favors net neutrality. Otherwise the rest of his post makes no sense.

But my impression is 90% of businesses favor net neutrality, along with 100% of consumers. The only people against it are the telecomm as-sholes and maybe the largest companies (although I get the impression many of them also favor it), plus of course Republicans because bribes, Innate Evil, and Ideological argle bargle.
 
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Kepler said:
Reading his quote I think he meant to say he favors net neutrality. Otherwise the rest of his post makes no sense.

But my impression is 90% of businesses favor net neutrality, along with 100% of consumers. The only people against it are the telecomm as-sholes and maybe the largest companies (although I get the impression many of them also favor it).
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Correct, half asleep. Its not a free speech issue and I have no problem with the potential business models, but there's too much risk of collusion, bias and manipulation. It is quite dangerous.
 
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...The only people against it are the telecomm as-sholes and maybe the largest companies (although I get the impression many of them also favor it),
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Oddly enough, AT&T, which spent all of 2017 campaigning for the repeal of Obama-era Net Nutrality rules is now proposing a National Net Nutrality rule for all telcos.

Hope you haven't gotten whiplash from AT&T's pivot.

But, AT&T's move may be to head off the State level bureaucracies that were starting to form, with the state legislatures of Montana and New York passing their own Net Nutrality laws preventing any state contracts from being awarded to telcos that don't abide by the old national Net Nutrality rules.
 
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I just noticed the amount on the pending ACH for my paycheck this week. Thanks Trump! Now I can donate this extra money to liberal causes.
 
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aparch said:
Oddly enough, AT&T, which spent all of 2017 campaigning for the repeal of Obama-era Net Nutrality rules is now proposing a National Net Nutrality rule for all telcos.

Hope you haven't gotten whiplash from AT&T's pivot.

But, AT&T's move may be to head off the State level bureaucracies that were starting to form, with the state legislatures of Montana and New York passing their own Net Nutrality laws preventing any state contracts from being awarded to telcos that don't abide by the old national Net Nutrality rules.
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...Montana?
 
dxmnkd316 said:
...Montana?
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Yep.

Through an executive order, Gov. Steve Bullock declared on Monday that any internet service provider with a state government contract cannot block or charge more for faster delivery of websites, two core aspects of net neutrality, to any customer in the state.

Many major landline and mobile broadband providers, including Charter, CenturyLink, AT&T and Verizon, hold government contracts in the state. The new requirements apply to new and renewed contracts signed after July 1, 2018.
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I gotta admit, that's a pretty progressive move for such a conservative area of the country.
 
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aparch said:
I gotta admit, that's a pretty progressive move for such a conservative area of the country.
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Net neutrality should actually be something conservatives AND liberals can agree on, since it supports freedom of speech, press, the flow of information (no matter how biased), etc. However, because the Marxist Kenyan Muslim got involved and liberals liked what he did, that automatically means net neutrality is BAD to anyone who voted for Bone Spurs.
 
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aparch said:
Yep.



I gotta admit, that's a pretty progressive move for such a conservative area of the country.
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Nothing wrong with implementing something like that at the state level. That's where it belongs, anyway.

I'm still waiting for when Facebook and Google are regulated as utilities, or broken up. Definitely some trust action going on.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Net neutrality should actually be something conservatives AND liberals can agree on, since it supports freedom of speech, press, the flow of information (no matter how biased), etc. However, because the Marxist Kenyan Muslim got involved and liberals liked what he did, that automatically means net neutrality is BAD to anyone who voted for Bone Spurs.
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Actually, the Net Neutrality rules as regulated did nothing to combat internet censorship, only go after what happens at the junction of consumer to ISP. It still left the door wide open for other censorship. If you actually want to ensure free speech, then sure, that will bring both sides to the table.
 
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aparch said:
Yep.



I gotta admit, that's a pretty progressive move for such a conservative area of the country.
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Of the Rocky Mountain states, Montana is the most liberal, by a pretty wide margin. As a matter of fact, one could really call it more centralist than one side or the other. It's an interesting state.
 
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alfablue said:
Of the Rocky Mountain states, Montana is the most liberal, by a pretty wide margin. As a matter of fact, one could really call it more centralist than one side or the other. It's an interesting state.
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Colorado?
 
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