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>they aren't guiltless either How is the bill's author/sponsor at all to blame for centurylink doing this? They could just as well be doing this without the bi

• gameswithgo 8y ago
  It isn't, but hackernews is full of people who have fully bought into the idea that all government things are bad.
  • acdha 8y ago
    There’s been a huge propaganda campaign since the 1930s trying to roll back the New Deal. So many familiar faces and concepts owe their familiarity to a stream of corporate money which started flowing to Christian libertarian pastors, magazines, etc. and, later, televangelists and movements pushing for Eisenhower-era introductions of public displays of business-friendly Christianity. Kevin Kruse wrote a great book outlining the history: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22928900 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22928900