Court blocks the FCC's efforts to restore net neutrality... again
Court blocks the FCC's efforts to restore net neutrality... again
An appeals court said the case filed by broadband providers against the FCC will likely succeed.
"Net neutrality's opponents have long argued that the rules will put off investors. " yeah no shit. Here is the part where people who are not an ISP give 2 shits. Supply side are assholes.
267Investors are shit. If your company can't make it on the profit from the product or service, it shouldn't exist.
At the same time, any company large enough to capture more than half the marketshare of any single segment should be broken up into at least 3 companies.
And private equity companies buying up small companies and then trading them like playing cards should be banned as well.
I'm so tired of these lazy, fat, investor class chuckle fucks getting handouts from the government.
149I’m so tired of these lazy, fat, investor class chuckle fucks getting handouts from the government.
This is a primary purpose of the state. It was literally created as a protection racket for slavers.
2I'm sorry do you have any understanding of how the economy works at scale?
A fundamental part of it is that money has to move. Lots of money that sits is really, really bad.
That's where investment comes in. Big projects come in (beit R&D, or production, or expansion) and they cost more to start than there is in cash reserves. You could consider a loan an investment as well. And that would be the same, making the bankers the investors (this also applies to mortgages and any other consumer loan).
They must, otherwise companies taking on multi-million dollar projects would have to have more multi-millions sitting dormant in cash reserves. And at the scale of global economies, that is a bad thing.
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In this damn country, slightly slowing down the growth of rich people’s investments is a more effective argument against something than literally killing your customers. If gutting net neutrality takes money out of normal people’s pockets and makes things a bit more difficult for them, then everything is working as intended.
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The US has no term limit for supreme judges. They are literally mini dictators.
115This wasn't the supreme court...
20Not really the point, because this case would go to supreme court if they didn't like the ruling.
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Republicans strike again
84The correct term today is Nazis
31We need to make a list of them and remove every one of them, period.
3Democrats constantly working with republicans to legitimize and violently enforce the system that they both serve.
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Well fuck whatever court that is
55They're all wacky cult rituals run by weirdos in robes.
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You know, if the rules for government handouts were more open, another company could gain ground. Just pointing out something congress controls.
26You want a government handout, just
bribecontribute to the super PACs of the right number of Congress people.Really it's one of the best investments a company can make. Doubly so if you're related to one.
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It was legal before, wonder why they didn't use that precedent
15Its a bit of a stretch, but slavery was legal before too.
Unfortuanlty, if "it was legal before" was a valid argument, a lot bad stuff can come back too.
However, in this situation, it sucks.
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This just feeds into my fear that the current internet is going to die at the hands of corpos. As a result, my paranoid ass has been buying up modems in the event we need to start from scratch.
4Hey the billionaires already purchased the government. It's not like they can do us any favors. Maybe we should ask for smaller things like please don't start a war in the next 4 years again. Could we for once just let putin have it for like 4 weeks in a row and call it done?
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