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Trip down memory lane to see all the Net Neutrality melts from this board in 2017.

Posted on 2/25/19 at 12:02 am
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 12:02 am
They didn't age well!

In 11 days, net neutrality will be repealed, how will you celebrate? (thread started by me)

BREAKING: F.C.C. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules (thread started by me)

Comcast asks the FCC to prohibit states from enforcing net neutrality (thread started by OMLandshark/Coco)

FCC to free Internet From Obama's “Net Neutrality” Rules (thread started by biggsc)



The amount of downvotes I sustained because all these big government interventionists thought we would be back in the stone age once Net Neutrality was repealed.

My internet has gotten cheaper and faster!
This post was edited on 2/25/19 at 12:03 am
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
73089 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 12:04 am to
By the upvote/downvote ratio on some of those threads.....this board hates free markets.
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 12:05 am to
You know this thread was melting bad when JuiceTerry's posts attacking me and other anti-NN users was getting upvoted almost 2:1.
This post was edited on 2/25/19 at 12:06 am
Posted by hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 2/25/19 at 12:06 am to
Posted by SoulGlo
Shinin' Through
Member since Dec 2011
17248 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 12:15 am to
Oh what memories.
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
100462 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 12:20 am to
Was the most boring and uninteresting political issue of my lifetime. I never cared one iota and still dont. Have no idea what it was about and still dont care. Just know I wanted liberal tears.
This post was edited on 2/25/19 at 12:21 am
Posted by texridder
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Oct 2017
14935 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 1:30 am to
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My internet has gotten cheaper and faster!

Post Hoc fallacy. You're an idiot. Again.
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 1:35 am to
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You're an idiot.


quote:

texridder


Pot meet kettle.
Posted by texridder
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Oct 2017
14935 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 1:46 am to
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You're an idiot.

Pot meet kettle.

Instead of posting that crap, why didn't you try to defend yourself by showing that you weren't an idiot by posting a textbook example of the Post Hoc fallacy?

Never mind. It's obvious.
Posted by SlapahoeTribe
Tiger Nation
Member since Jul 2012
12441 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 1:55 am to
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Have no idea what it was about and still dont care.

Simplest answer: it was an Obama-era solution to a hypothetical problem.

Whether or not you espoused it's supposed virtues, you should oppose it on grounds of it being unwarranted government expansion.
Posted by texridder
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Oct 2017
14935 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 2:10 am to
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Whether or not you espoused it's supposed virtues, you should oppose it on grounds of it being unwarranted government expansion.
So whether it's good or bad is immaterial -- it should just blindly be opposed?

Man, that is ingenious. That way you don't have to actually try to figure out which one it is.
Posted by bencoleman
RIP 7/19
Member since Feb 2009
37887 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 4:45 am to
Anybody that was all for net neutrality was either misinformed or completely ignorant.
Posted by AUsteriskPride
Albuquerque, NM
Member since Feb 2011
18385 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 5:24 am to
Looking through that thread, saw olddawg26, he hasn't posted since September. We might have lost one.
Posted by Samso
nyc
Member since Jun 2013
5032 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 5:38 am to
The level of vitriol in some of those threads is incredible. All over Muh Netflix.
This post was edited on 2/25/19 at 5:40 am
Posted by weptiger
Georgia
Member since Feb 2007
11588 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 5:46 am to
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So whether it's good or bad is immaterial -- it should just blindly be opposed?


Works for you guys and everything the Trump administration puts forth. Surely, you could see the hypocrisy of your statement before posting it.
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
52895 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 6:44 am to
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The amount of downvotes I sustained because all these big government interventionists thought we would be back in the stone age once Net Neutrality was repealed.


I remember that being a mocking straw man, but I don’t remember anyone claiming that it would cause a sudden down tick of the Internet.

Certainly not a widespread attitude.

Mostly it was seeing no good come out of it, especially as the rule came about in the first place in response to violations to it.

“Oh don’t worry, we won’t throttle your connection. We just really really would like the freedom to do it. But we actually won’t.”

Oh right, I forgot. The upside was going to be how much infrastructure investment was stifled because of the rules.

And yet Comcast, Charter and Verizon dropped CapEx this year (Comcast by around 3% of their prior budget) and analysts estimate the drop industry wide to continue and be an additional 6% by the end of 2019.


Oops

And the speed increases in the past year? Same growth trend that we had in past years. Interesting to see if that continues or flattens out as we get data on the topic from this brave new world of infrastructure capital investment.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
295193 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 6:48 am to
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is board hates free markets.


There's no doubt about it, though it's a fairly recent thing. See the tariff threads.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
295193 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 6:50 am to
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So whether it's good or bad is immaterial -- it should just blindly be opposed?


Why should anyone lightly take the potential of huge government intervention via Title II?
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
141322 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 6:52 am to
OMLandshark was extra melty.
This post was edited on 2/25/19 at 6:57 am
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 2/25/19 at 6:54 am to
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Works for you guys and everything the Trump administration puts forth. Surely, you could see the hypocrisy of your statement before posting it.



Whine bitch

For the most part he puts forth agenda items I have been supporting for decades.

That's the same bullshite you assholes spew about Limbaugh. He merely states what I believed already.
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