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I can understand why Republicans don't like net neutrality. I cannot fathom at all the argument made by Trump that a law requiring equal access to both liberal
by st3v3r 10y ago
I can understand why Republicans don't like net neutrality. I cannot fathom at all the argument made by Trump that a law requiring equal access to both liberal and conservative media, not to mention everything in between and outside, is going to "target conservative media". Is he saying that if people have equal access to all, that they will reject conservative media?
- rashkov 10y agoYou're mistaken if you think that trump is presenting any kind of rational argument. Instead he is appealing to his voter base, many of whom feel that the mainstream media and Silicon Valley companies are silencing conservative viewpoints. See search terms: "Google biased towards Hillary", "Facebook censoring conservative news", "conservative msm", "conservative lamestream media".
- Kadin 10y agoYou're overthinking it -- it doesn't make sense. At best, it's a sort of overblown rhetorical point drawing a comparison between one dislikable thing and another, at worst it's a conspiracy theory. (The conspiracy-theory read is basically "this is the first step towards regulating the internet so they can ban Rush Limbaugh" although it's sort of an Underpants Gnomes level theory. There's no step 2 to get you there, and in fact it's much easier to get to the content-censorship outcome via media-company control of the Internet.)