Senate confirms Biden FCC pick as 5 Republicans join Democrats in 55-43 vote. Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”::Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”

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Confirmation means she can, until it becomes clear that she isn’t going to.

Then the excuses will start. And centrists will say that anyone who remembers this article “doesn’t know how government works.”

I’m saying this now because I intend to link back to this comment when it happens.

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The only time we ever had net neutrality it was under a “centrist.” And yes, we will have it again, until another republican wins because actual centrists - people who equate both parties at every opportunity - didn’t vote, and encouraged people not to because it’s all “pointless.”

(Btw you are the enlightened centrist)

Also, people who reliably vote tend to get the policies they want. People who don’t vote tend to complain the most about not getting what they want.

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You’re angry.

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Considering centrism a bad thing makes any opinion you have worthless.

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Let me steal someone else’s thunder then, “you don’t know how the government works!”. I don’t know either so me saying this is meaningless, but at least we skipped the “excuses” part lol

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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 the fuck jobs does this sack of butter think will be killed

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“Obamacare for the Internet”

For all its flaws the ACA has worked out relatively well for most people. Is that a tactic that finds any purchase with anyone not already in the bag?

I understand its primary reason and you play to the base, but this seems short sighted even for the zodiac killer.

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I don’t know the individual mandate really messed me up one year. My workplace and the exchange were too expensive so I get fined for not having enough money. Meanwhile my employer’s health insurance company made bank.

If the ACA had gone through without the individual mandate I would have been a lot happier. Go ahead and argue with me but unless you have a few hundred dollars to give me I am very unlikely to change my views. And before you start, yes I live in a state where the rate isnt $0.

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anyone not already in the bag?

At this point, as far as I can tell, the GOP doesn’t seem to give a shit about anyone not in the bag, their only goal is to keep everyone inside too scared to leave.

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Ted Cruz knows that people were for the ACA and against Obamacare, so that’s why he says this

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Do you mean Rafael Cruz the migrant ? If people start to call it by his real name, and his status it would have some effects. I doubt the GOP would elect someone who isn’t US born with a sound like latin forst name.

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That Cruz quote is insane. Net neutrality will not be easily sold to the public as “radically left-wing”. Nobody is going to believe that shit.

It literally has neutrality right in the name!

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It’s not the name that makes it a centrist policy, it’s substance.

Hell, if policy names reflected their substance, then the GOP’s “protect children” initiatives would prioritize gun violence and not hating on RuPaul.

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Yes, I know. Right on.

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The NRA is an official child murder advocacy group.

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It will get a new name given to it. Each perspective develops their own terminology in order to make their opponents stances seem less appealing.

The Affordable Care Act became Obamacare, because the name instills a partisan lean. And gun control became gun violence prevention because politicians realized advocating for “_____ Control” sounds authoritarian.

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T-Mobile, a US mobile carrier, currently throttles video streams to 480p. It’s a pretty bad experience and I look forward to seeing it end.

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The prior rules didn’t say much about mobile carriers, and the new ones probably won’t either

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Have 4 different devices on T-Mobile, all stream at 1080, no clue what you’re talking about.

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During “peak hours” certain unlimited plans are throttled to 480p. It doesn’t always happen.

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So we’re having American news shit everywhere now? Fantastic.

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Yeah. America still heard a lot about GDPR. Because some policies just change the whole internet.

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💀

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In Ted’s defense he can’t craft his statements from anything else. He’s a horse shit man with horse shit thoughts using horse shit hands to do a horse shit job of anything he touches, which turns to horse shit.

His heart escapes this fate by not existing.

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