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- yuekit2
Anti-net neutrality spammers are flooding FCC's pages with fake comments
http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-b…
Top Dem wants FBI to investigate fake net neutrality comments
http://thehill.com/policy/techno…
The reason this matters is that according to U.S. law the FCC has to take public opinion into account before it can revoke a rule such as net neutrality protections. According to Trump's FCC, 65% of the comments they received are ANTI net neutrality.
Does that sound remotely realistic? I don't even know many conservatives who feel strongly about the issue -- all the energy and activism is on the pro-net neutrality side.
If companies with a vested interest in the decision are flooding the FCC with fake comments as the first article strongly suggests, that is corporate criminality at its most brazen, and shows how badly some people want to kill net neutrality.
- if Hillary and her co-horts were doing this the alt-right would be calling for her head.inteliboy
- ive been a supporter of net neutrality for a long time based on the fear of monopolistic control. But im starting to think my fears are the same ofdeathboy
- all the other free market fears. Im beginning to think a internet free from gov even at a cost might work as a control against tyrannydeathboy
- its hard to say an abdundant amount of info has been beneficial to ppl at all. So many with no desire for info being controlled and used by itdeathboy
- you can parallel it with college expansion and more people in college but less real qualified and experienced. An easily attainable abundance of info out ofdeathboy
- relevance can do more harm than good. except for the ones selling it.deathboy
- There's a misconception that it somehow amounts to government control...when in reality net neutrality is just saying ISPs can't block access to or slow downyuekit
- sites they don't like. Basically it's how the internet works now.yuekit
- "its hard to say an abdundant amount of info has been beneficial to ppl at all."inteliboy
- famine is low, mortality rate is low, we are in statistically living in a "peace time", we bounced back from a financial crisis relatively quickly...inteliboy
- the middle class and rich are growing, standard of living is growing etc etc. Fact is, for the most part, life is as good as it has ever been around the world.inteliboy
- yuekit it is gov control. if they set the rules they get the power. the lobbying dollars, and its a constricted market. i just dont know if it matters at thisdeathboy
- point. gov already chose the winners and level of services. inteliboy i think u are mistaken. we haven't bounced back from financial crisis at all. we havedeathboy
- expanded balance sheets using shared economy as a sort of nuclear deterrent. middleclass has shrunk, liberty has decreased, chaos and emo rise, debt highdeathboy
- but i still have no idea what internet directly does of any of those things. but think of info as a commodity. know the idea of a child came from school anddeathboy
- separation of information from "adults". Info can control cultures, i think our current culture cant define relevance or detect bullshit. how many ppl heredeathboy
- bought the russian bandwagon news reports? i think these big media companies who are shaping our politics should be charged a premium to operate as others asdeathboy
- ISPs decide. problem is gov limited ISPs... i think protecting net neutrality gave rise to and too much power to companies which should have been regulated bydeathboy
- market forces... i think i was wrong in support of net neutrality looking at it with fresh eyes and seeing how things have played out overtimedeathboy
- imagine if facebook was charged a premium, and they had to pass that cost on. would they be have the power they have now?deathboy
- would people be better off?deathboy
- To me government control sounds like the government would be running it or have a role in the day to day decision making process.yuekit
- This is just a rule the ISPs have to follow, no different from any other rule or regulation in any industry.yuekit
- It's basically an anti-monopolistic type of law since it says the ISPs can't block content they don't like or set up crony capitalist deals with big websites.yuekit
- they run it as much as in they set the rules. however gov built the isp monopolies so its tough to say if it can be salvageddeathboy
- ISPs are like data railroads. I think treating data in a market approach is better than our current methods. u can see how phone plans bettered outside our ruledeathboy
- in other countries. i think i supported something terrible now that I know moredeathboy
- CygnusZero40
There are a grand total of THREE trump supporters on QBN. Why do they even post here? No point to it. They get ripped to pieces in every post. Futile effort lmao
- I converted to Trumpism after omg's last post.Beeswax
- Why shouldn't they be here. 90% of people piss and moan about the trump fans to no effect.Fax_Benson
- QBN Sanctuary City™BusterBoy
- Beeswax makes 4.Fax_Benson
- What happened to #1 Trump defender Georges IVXI?yuekit
- I converted to Trumpism after learning that hypothetical illegal immigrants will hypothetically rape & murder Canadians.dorf
- ay que pendejo, can't you see we're enjoying the show...robotron3k
- lol and there's one of them, currently into pretending he knows Spanishmonospaced
- can start to be funny. imagine he takes it really seriously, that would be awesome.oey
- Georges disappeared after his predicted right-wing takeover of Europe didn't happen.fadein11
- its not about the man its about policy. u kids and your labels and packagingdeathboy
- always strikes me as weird to see how many people in design and advertising who fall for their own productsdeathboy
- yawnmonospaced
- that's another one, sounding off for roll callmonospaced
- oey0
Three?
I thought four or even five.
Plus the ones that pretend they don't cause you know, they don't want to be in a minority cause they think minorities are bad.
- It was five but then Ram scheduled Georges for the late shift and he hasn't come back...robotron3k
- ah! thanks.oey
- I appreciate their posts. Helps me understand an opposing narrative.BonSeff
- utopian1
- What a creep. You can just imagine what this goon is like when no cameras are present.BusterBoy
- totally creepy. but, as long as women "play along", smile, and feed his ego he'll continue. he needs to be told to "fuck off' otherwise it's all legit. ratings!renderedred
- creepazoidinteliboy
- looks like his daughtersince1979
- MrT0
- kingsteven3
Just to add to the fuckery of the DUP - Tory partnership...
Our local government (a power-sharing agreement between the DUP and Sinn Fein) collapsed a few months ago after Arlene Foster refused to stand down after squandering 480mil of public money on a spectacular miscalculation over a renewable heating scheme...
If they can't re-start parliament by 4pm today NI comes under direct rule from Westminster.
The DUP are refusing to make a deal on protection of the Irish language (which is quite widely spoken here as well as it being the origin of most of our towns/ street names). They are insisting on equal protection for a 'language' called 'Ulster Scots' they basically made up by phoneticising shit farmers say in English because they were jealous of the protection for minority languages granted to Irish via the EU.
Sinn Fein don't take their seats in UK Parliament (they consider themselves an Irish political party, and it wouldn't do them any favours with their voters to represent them in London)
So basically the DUP have gone in to government in the UK and are now deliberately forcing our country to direct rule (what they wanted all along) and Sinn Fein are totally cut off from government in the UK as well as many (actually decent non-partisan) local politicians...
The DUP got 37% of the overall vote, and mostly from rural areas... and from 4pm they're running the place with the Tories.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-nor…
Two DUP coups in a week! The UK press hasn't even exposed half the corrupt shit these guys have been involved with in the last few years.
I know it's boring as fuck, but please inform yourselves about Northern Ireland and the DUPs involvement in NAMA, RHI, the 'Petition of Concern', women's rights, gay rights, alcohol licensing.
They have fucked us all here, we're on the brink of a return to violence because of their actions and they are positioned to exploit the situation for further political gains... They are compatible to a sectarian religious wing of the BNP and they aren't stupid, they will walk all over the Tories.
- fucking awful - as I said I have a good friend saying the same things. Hope things don't go the way they are looking. Just so a shack of shit tory govt keeps afadein11
- small grip on power for now.fadein11
- My friend lives and is from NI.fadein11
- i think we're all hoping that the DUPs involvement in UK politics will shed a bit of light on their BS but so far it's only scraped the surface.kingsteven
- :(fadein11
- Honest question: How does Sinn Fein ever partner with the DUP if they are trying to outlaw Galiege?garbage
- they don't partner - it's a power sharing agreement.fadein11
- they're not in power together like a coalition, the executive is set up so that the biggest irish nationalist and british unionist parties share power...kingsteven
- they also both have power to veto any law on 'community grounds' with the intention that they'll need to agree to get anything done...kingsteven
- unfortunately they can generally only agree that they love religion and don't like abortions. bit of a sham parliament but it ensures peace.kingsteven
- we were just about getting to a point were would have enough non-partisan MLAs to create an opposition. Then Brexit, RHI and this shit...kingsteven
- Thanks for the insight. Sounds like The Troubles 2: Something Something Boogaloo.garbage
- Ramanisky23
So Presidential ...
- lolmoldero
- but he writes so eloquentlymonospaced
- So did they stay there 3 nights or did you say no? Also, can you really tell someone they can't stay there? I didn't think so.monospaced
- Words of a great honorable maninteliboy
- but stop focussing on the personality and start focussing on the poli... oh wait.fadein11
- I guess he denied them membership? Wow, you're soooo cool Donald. Way to show them!monospaced
- please tell me this isn't real [leaves to visit Twitter again]fadein11
- ^ oh its realRamanisky2
- oh it is real. is this real? is this reality? does he really spend his time butthurt over media triviality. Omg, you about? does he really spend MAGA time onfadein11
- this BS?fadein11
- personality defects off the scale.Fax_Benson
- Mika's response to Trumps tweet
https://pbs.twimg.co…Ramanisky2 - Note to Theresa May: he might be happy letting you suck his micro-weenie now, but if you cross him, you can expect this sort of treatment.Continuity
- haha continuity, micro-weeniefadein11
- Despite being a demon I would like to think that May would quietly threaten his life and the lives of his family if crossed in such a way.face_melter
- Oh. That would require her to actually have a spine. So far, the evidence in support of that isn't very forthcoming.Continuity
- Lol, as if he should just sit there and take it. Talk about not having a spine. It's fucking great watching him shit on media and politicians.IRNlun6
- I love how we're supposed to believe a woman who cared enough about her looks to get a facelift would go out in public bleeding from the face.kona
- Well, ladies and gentlemen, now we know conclusively what IRNlun6's opinion and position on women is.Continuity
- You're a dumbass, cry more you hypocriteIRNlun6
- LOLZ.
Is that the best you can do?Continuity - You'd better go back to playing with your dolls, the adults are talking, now.Continuity
- You child. For some reason you still seem to put faith in these institutions and celebrity news anchors. They deserve zero respect.IRNlun6
- Yet you're putting your faith in a celebrity president? Your logic... it lacks... logic.kona
- Am I now? Just enjoying him shitting on all these sacred cows.IRNlun6
- So what did this Mika person do to be slandered in such an ugly way in front of the whole country? Just being in the media?yuekit
- She obviously lied about Trump using a fake Time magazine cover at his clubsRamanisky2
- https://www.washingt…BusterBoy
- Wait, so you defend Trump and ignore his idiocy simply because you like watching smart, educated people get upset at a clown in power? That's dumbfuck thinking.monospaced
- Bluejam3
- lolfadein11
- the disabled thing will go with him to the grave.fadein11
- lets hope soBluejam
- Hurdy Gurdy TrumpRamanisky2
- 70 year old man doing the spac-attack to belittle his foes. Kids who don't know any better know better than that.Fax_Benson
- Given he's an obese man in his 70's I would hope that he has a massive stroke so others can mock him in a similar fashion.face_melter
- Thatcher ended as a brittle, frail, bird of a woman and I took no pleasure from her passing - but this cunt? A beer and a jig in my undies.face_melter
- Thatcher — whilst having no human decency or empathy to speak of — at least had poise, bearing and dignity going for her.Continuity
- Thatcher was a monster but also intelligent and respected by her coven. Trump doesn't tick any of those boxes.fadein11
- But then, in some ways, hiding that shitbaggery behind the poise made her worse. Trump isn't smart enough not to be 101% cunt.MrT
- It made her insidious.
I keep running a thought experiment, whereby Thatcher is alive and PM at the same time Merkel is German chancellor.Continuity - I've reached the conclusion they would hate each others' guts, but Merkel would end up politically kicking Thatcher's teeth in.Continuity
- *and, not butContinuity
- kona5
Sarah Huckabee Sanders giving official White House defense of Trump's bad tweet on Fox News: Morning Joe started it.
That's the equivalent of...
What an absolute disgrace of an administration.
- an ugly woman inside and outRamanisky2
- I see. So, now, the acceptable response to legitimate media criticism is schoolyard name-calling, then, is it?Continuity
- Let me try this in a meeting with a client, see how far I get.Continuity
- Continuity3
On the upside, The Great Orange Turd has lowered the rhetorical bar for everyone else coming after him. Hell, his speeches make even GWB sound like Cicero.
The next guy or girl will sound positively oratorically orgasmic by comparison!
- Ramanisky23
hey Melania, you have work to do .. chop chop
- "Dee buttons. Dee beeps and dee boops. Children can be hurt. Our culture has gotten too mean. Too rough. Tiny typing hands. Micro penis'. My husband..."kona
- ^ HAHA totallyRamanisky2
- My god, she's reciting that speech like William Shatner.Continuity
- A William Shatner with a really bad Hollywood Russian accent.Continuity
- Sorry, Bill. Didn't mean to insult you.Continuity
- When Donny finish president, I write good book with divorce moneys....see_thru
- ^lol i thought you said 'divorce monkeys' would also be very funny.sarahfailin
- Ramanisky21
Hard at work I see.
First lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman said the president will "punch back 10 times harder" when attacked in response to President Trump’s tweets earlier in the day attacking “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski.
- instrmntl2
This was really informative regarding the right's agenda based off of John Buchannans philosophies.
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Historian: Republican Push to Replace Obamacare Reflects Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
As Republicans attempt to revive a bill to overturn Obamacare, we look at the radical right’s attempt to reshape the role of the federal government—from healthcare to education to housing. We speak with Duke University historian Nancy MacLean, author of the new book, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America." MacLean also uncovers the instrumental role the late libertarian economist James Buchanan played in the right’s campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting and privatize schools.
- omg-9
- Ok, so to me that says that Trump knowingly uses inflammatory rhetoric to distract the media and the country from the fact that he has no passable agenda.wordssssss
- that says to me that he doesn't want anyone fact checking the shit he says. Feeding his followers any BS he wants.capn_ron
- that says to me I need downvote.Ramanisky2
- How is either point defensible. it's funny that this comes out a day after his own party can't come together on a SEVEN year long promise to repeal Obamacare.wordssssss
- That says to me he throws like a sissykona
- But the fact that the both a trump supporter is posting the work of a political cartoonist that is aligned with trump speaks volumes that they as a group are awordssssss
- Fuckwitswordssssss
- *bunch ofwordssssss
- LOL@RamContinuity
- it's a bit shit but does actually make a good point - that political journalism has decamped to twitter, like a bunch of idiots.Fax_Benson
- @fax - it doesn't make that point thoughfadein11
- it did to me but I really don't care either way.Fax_Benson
- nor mefadein11
- lol, as if Trump said anything that EVER went OVER anyone's headsmonospaced
- This really should be his supporters jamming his tweets down their throats while wearing blinders, deep in a safe space cave, wearing tinfoil hatsmonospaced
- mg333
When Trump said "I moved on her like a bitch," what did he mean?
Did he mean:
A) He moved like a bitch
B) She was a bitchIf A, why would Trump degrade himself?
If B, why is being a bitch a necessary aspect of being hit on?- His game was weak.BonSeff
- pretty sure he meant Asarahfailin
- I took this to mean that He was a male dog moving on a female dog. No hesitations or inhibitions. Just start humping.dopepope
- Ramanisky21
oh Joy, a new NRA Ad.
- The NRA is silent about Philando Castile, but they made a whole video to incite violence against Americans exercising 1st Amendment rights. Ok thenkona
- ...because showing how violent the left is, is somehow inciting violence. // Why don't they just sit there and take it!!??IRNlun6
- LOL yes, the violent left... Fighting for civil rights, women's suffrage, and the 40 hour work week.dorkKn1ght
- ^ ladies & gent the comedic stylings of IRNlun6 ... he's here all week.Ramanisky2
- haha ram.fadein11
- the NRA is a civil rights organization, and the left is violent. Deny it all you want. Every violent image in that video is the left.IRNlun6
- ^ This fucking guy. I can't stop laughing!Continuity
- Laugh all you want. You cry when you get exactly what you give.IRNlun6
- my sides dude, my sidesRamanisky2
- I am laughing. Well, I know I shouldn't. It's not kind to laugh at the mentally challenged.Continuity
- bwahaha stop it Continuity ..
cant ... breathe.Ramanisky2 - ah yes, an endless stream of insults speaks highly to intellectual prowess. what will he call me next!?IRNlun6
- http://memestatic.fj…fadein11
- A bunch of angry college boys in anfita black t-shirts aren't going to upend the system dude. Pissing in the wind.monoboy
- Don't get me wrong, I think they're dicks. But this bullshit is about obfuscating a Goverment hell bent on making the poor expire quietly whilst waving a flag.monoboy
- the left does have a small but growing problem with violence. not sure how you can say otherwise. The NRA are still cunts.Fax_Benson
- The NRA don't stand for freedom. They stand for a system that actually oppress them. Happily, willingly, blindly. A 9mm pistol ain't going to defeat legislationmonoboy
- Good luck wrestling power from the worlds biggest military power propped up and paid for by vested interests who only want your obedience and dollars.monoboy
- Two reasons for high gun violence in America. Suicide rates among middle aged white men, and gang violence.IRNlun6
- Issues politicians you trust to protect you give zero fucks about.IRNlun6
- Antifa is no threat. The problem is encouraging and ignoring their violence. They are destroying their lives just as much as the people they attack.IRNlun6
- ^ this I agree with. I also dislike the holier than thou attitude of some on the left that think they hold the moral superiority on everything. They don't.monoboy
- they do, though :)monospaced
