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>Funny how something intended to prevent ISPs from throttling content turned into a debate about helping out the disadvantaged, etc Isn't that just politics in
by carlisle_ 12y ago
>Funny how something intended to prevent ISPs from throttling content turned into a debate about helping out the disadvantaged, etc
Isn't that just politics in general?
- Zancarius 12y agoYep. It's like everything else in the last 20+ years. Someone drafts a bill that sounds like a good idea, then before you know it, it balloons to thousands of pages of rhetoric drafted by every lobbyist in Washington. I don't know what the answer is. I can think of a few solutions, but they're impractical and would never happen.
- canvia 12y agoLimit the length of bills and require them to be read out loud into public record in their entirety before passage.
- rayiner 12y agoTelecom is peculiarly mired in it. By and large, here is the mainstream positions of the two major parties on telecom: Republicans: Want the government out of it. Democrats: Only care about it to the extent that it's a nexus of class/race warfare.
- bsder 12y ago> Republicans: Want the government out of it. Only when it benefits big business. Republicans are more than happy to stick the government into your religion, your health decisions, your recreational drug use, etc.