http://thehill.com/policy/technology/387985-senate-votes-to-save-net-neutrality-rules
Has to pass the house and get signed by trump, but it will make members of the house look pretty bad if they go against it.
Watch, Trump's gonna tweet something like
Net neutrality's attack on the internet is another top down power grab. Net neutrality is against the Fairness Doctrine. Will target fake media
Hey, good news!
Paul Ryan ain't gonna let this come to a vote
or bad depending on your world view.
because they'll totally care about that lol. their voter base will still support them.
this shit ain't happening. it's nice to try and get it on paper who is trying so hard to kill it, but that's all.
yeah but this will make great impact for the midterms, since everyone whos anti-NN in the house will have to officially put their name on it meaning they can be directly called out once they vote against it
Would be nice if there was a system to help people choose who to vote for, so people actually know who voted against that thing they like. I know there's similar websites and out there but it'd nice to have it all central and curated. So you can look up NN and then get a politicians mission statement, any other statements (speeches, interviews, commercials), and relevant voting record. Or maybe that's not so good since it might encourage single issue voters...
What a great thing to wake up to.
It's nice to see it being fought for, but do understand that this is anything but a "done deal." It still has to go to the House, and currently has very little realistic chance of passing.
Well yes I do understand that. I'm just hoping that it actually manages to pass it, though with how the House is filled with nothing but republicans I feel like a miracle would have to happen to make it pass and then there's the dealing with Trump himself.
While this is great news, But now this goes to Representatives to vote on undo changes made by Crappy pie.
Nah, single issue voters aren't going to change because of the presence of or lack of presence of a website curating such information. And it would be a massive help to inform people of who votes how. HArd to bias or spin it, either, because it's easily cross referenced if something seems off: The data's public knowledge.
We need this site.
My concern is that single-issue voters will look up the only thing they care about, and vote for the person who also consistently cares about it, regardless of anything else.
I mean what's wrong with on the issues?
It doesn't give you such a nice sorted list, but for politicians that matter you only have a few to vote for in your district.
But didn't he specifically note that Fairness Doctrine is a bad thing in one of his tweets?
Its baffling how anyone can go against something that literally has 'neutrality' in its name. I mean, the word neutrality meant non-biasness so going against it means that one wants biasness which is clearly not a good thing.
Elimination of the fairness doctrine gave us hard-right conservative media, so the followers of that media consider the fairness doctrine to be a bad thing, because with it goes their preferred source of news.
In the US, not everything is as it seems. US politics has a lot of information warfare within in. Key example: PATRIOT Act, SAFE IP,
THey do that anyway. You're not going to have any effect on them one way or the other with a site that aggregates voting histories of congresssional officials. And, really, it doesn't make much sense to ixnay the idea because a few idiots will misuse it.
Our political machine really turned something with NEUTRALITY in the name into a PARTISAN issue. We're fucked.
To be fair, I thought at least half of Republican voters support net neutrality though? We’re in an area where Xfinity/Comcast pulls a lot of shit, so even the most conservative people are like “fuck that shit” when I told them it means Comcast will be able to fuck us even more
Expect to see that change if FOX makes it their primary subject of discussion for a few weeks.
and 75% of Americans wanted to stay in the paris accord, too, but we still pulled out of that to raucous celebration from the right...
single issue voters would still be a huge step up from 'uninformed feels voters'
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