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You make some valid points, but considering that the anti-net neutrality folks are making some terrible comparisons and lies to lure the public into backing the
by scaryclam 9y ago
You make some valid points, but considering that the anti-net neutrality folks are making some terrible comparisons and lies to lure the public into backing them, is it really so bad for burger king to do the same?
- bllguo 9y agoyes? What's the point of combatting misinformation with misinformation? not as bad of course, plus the intentions seem good, but still.
- nly 9y agoWhen your opponent will win at any cost, sometimes you just have to do the same. We saw bad (but winning) analogies in the UK media with the refendum on voting reform[0]. Ultimately the pro-reform side didnt have good analogies, and people failed to understand what they were voting for. FPTP is easy to explain and feels fair when explained in the laziest way. "One person, one vote" was the winning campaign slogan. Powerful stuff. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum,_2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vot...
- ikeboy 9y agoWhat lies are being used?
- weaksauce 9y agothe main one I have seen them say is that "we didn't have net neutrality back in the day and everything was great" when there was throttling and disabling of services that actually triggered NN to be codified as law.
- ikeboy 9y agoWell the more careful claim it that none of the violations were that bad and definitely not enough to justify regulation across the board, Stratchery sketches out that argument reasonably well. I think it's broadly true that the internet was not, in fact, a dystopia during those times.