Anna Gomez confirmation means “FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality.”
“If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet” Cruz said.
What
It’s just right-wing buzzword scrabble with that guy. No need to even speak in complete sentences, just say a bunch of words that your voters want to demonize, and take home the money.
“Radical” “Obamacare” “Left-wing” Triple word score!
God damn, Cruz will molest talking points into a sentence by any means necessary. It’s like he rolls dice each morning to decide which random words he has to slap together.
Drag shows are literally banning gas stoves through an Antifa deep state Obamacare abortion.
Political madlibs except you can’t call them that because it has libs in it
I don’t even know if he actually believes it but rather just wants easily fooled people to believe it.
No worries, the Democrats will do what the party does best with a majority - pretty much nothing.
Enough to say “see? We’re better than the other guys”, but not enough to even nudge the status quo.
I genuinely don’t give a fuck about these petty little ontological bullshit games the DNC has grown fond of in the last two election cycles. I don’t give the first fuck if they’re “better than the other guys” if the status quo, if the material conditions aren’t changing a jot. For misleaders who claim to be better than the cultists, I see a whole lot of fucking nothing changing for the progressive.
Until we have democrats that are serious about ending carceral slavery, ending(and fully disarming) the militarization of police, ending our mosquito-like suckling of crude oil and natural gas, ending the domestic espionage programs like PRISM, FIVE-EYES and their ilk, closing the genocide camps at the border, and making actual good on our climate catastrophe, I genuinely don’t give a damn what they say; I’d rather the country fell than humor these career criminals.
Now let’s get back to net neutrality and rules on social media.
We’ll probably see them lobbying to give ISPs additional taxpayer funds to ‘expand’ broadband access while redefining broadband to be anything above 150Kbps.
Rules for social media lol. What do you expect the government to do? How would they even enforce these rules? Social media sites would simply host in other countries outside of the USA to bypass regulations.
Instead of trying to regulate websites, how about we create better privacy protections for our citizens, eh?
I don’t think you put much thought into this, friend. Many social media companies are incorporated in the US to make use of US ad revenue sources. Where the servers are hosted doesn’t matter. The legal corporate entity is the important bit.
And as mentioned in the other comment, privacy protections would operate the same way, seeing as they are literally rules for social media, among other sites.
But yes, privacy protections would be great. Let’s do that
Even if that’s true I wouldn’t put it past the companies to find ways to circumvent regulations, and I think trying to advocate for regulating them sets a precedent against the free and open internet that websites are under government control, which shouldn’t be the case. Imagine if government started requiring government ID’s to access all websites (including Lemmy, which is a social network).
Oh boy, I can’t wait for nothing of any measurable significance to happen as a result of this.
They’ll do nothing until there’s a new GOP threat, and then they’ll do nothing and blame it on the GOP. Rinse and repeat. We were never at war with Oceania.
I hate the cynical nihilism around here so much. It plays into the Republican and big business hands so well it might as well be propaganda.
We had net neutrality before under the Democrats. The Republicans got rid of it when they took power.
Bothsidesism is juvenile bullshit.
Republicans may be greedy and evil but Democrats are fucking useless, and this might surprise you but they’re all getting paid by lobbyists to keep the status quo just like republicans are.
It’s not “bothsidesism” to acknowledge that democrats never actually accomplish what they claim they’re going to, that’s just reality. I’ll vote for them because fuck conservatism, but I don’t have any delusions about them caring about the little guy. They’re just more old money politicians.
Tired of this reductionist room temp IQ bullshit.
They both have problems and identifying those issues isn’t claiming they have the same ones or that the issues are equal/pan out.
Republicans are trash because they’re authoritarian, and Democrats are trash because they never follow through with anything or accomplish any kind of actual change.
No one here is trying to say they’re equally bad or bad in the same way, but ignoring the fact that democrats don’t make any attempts at actual change is just being willfully ignorant of their uselessness.
Yeah, democrats and republicans are just looking out for different rich people.
If any of the ruling class feel threatened, they just spend a bit 🤏 more to sway public opinion in their favor.
It’s all calculated at this point. Buying the government is just another business expense.
I hope they clap the cheeks of the lobbies and finalize net neutrality rules with no take-backsies. Then focus on actually improving the internet after that. Just…please get shit done. Quickly.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Biden tried again in May with the nomination of Gomez, a State Department digital policy official who was previously deputy assistant secretary at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from 2009 to 2023.
“If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet,” Cruz said.
The Republican yes votes came from Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, and Todd Young of Indiana.
Annoyed at how many vote no on a candidate as qualified and non-controversial as this," commented Harold Feld, senior VP and consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge.
Media advocacy group Free Press said the “unprecedented 32-month delay” that deadlocked the FCC "was the result of concerted efforts by the phone, cable, and broadcast lobbies to hamstring the agency that oversees their businesses.
Gomez’s confirmation restores the agency’s full complement of commissioners and provides a tie-breaking vote on issues related to diversifying media ownership, promoting broadband affordability and protecting the rights of Internet users."
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I cannot even make sense of the Obamacare comparison… do people really fall for this word vomit? Sad.
These radical leftist policies that hate money are Obamacare, abortions, jobkillers, Marxist, communist, Leninist, atheist, Jews, Muslims, French, gay and trans agendas, grooming, protesting, unions, paper cuts, workers rights, pronouns, bathrooms, diversity, work from home, and liberal college elites all rolled into one. And it’s coming out of your tv, taking your guns, and making you use an electric range in a coastal city.
It’s like they aren’t even trying anymore, just sprinkling emotional buzzwords around regardless of the topic.
