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Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill Survives First Vote:
A bill backed by House Democrats to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality protections passed its first hurdle Tuesday.
Democrats pushed the Save the Internet Act through the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee in an 18-11 vote that fell along party lines. The legislation codifies rules that were repealed in December 2017 by the Republican-led FCC. As part of this repeal, the FCC abdicated its authority to protect consumers online to the Federal Trade Commission.
The bill introduced by Democrats is an attempt to end a nearly two-decade-old fight over how best to prevent broadband companies from abusing their power as gatekeepers to the internet. Specifically, it prevents broadband providers from blocking, slowing down or charging for faster access to the internet. But it also restores the FCC's authority as the "cop on the beat" when it comes to policing potential broadband abuses.
Republicans have criticized the legislation as giving the FCC too much authority to regulate ISPs.
What are the odds that it will pass?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ilsa on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:35PM (5 children)
Once again you are taking one incident and claiming that that is equivalent to a systemic problem.
Yes, that whole DNC thing was bullshit. And the Democrats paid very dearly for it. I seriously doubt they are going to do something like that again. Even then, this was an internal party matter that didn't negatively impact anyone outside of the ranks of the democrats. (Losing to Trump notwithstanding...)
Again, compare that to the Republicans who have made it the party mandate to vote against *anything* the Democrats want, no matter what. This is something that they have even admitted to. Worse yet, they must *undo* anything the Democrats might have already done, no matter how trivial (like f__king lightbulbs...). The Republicans have literally spent more time trying to dismantle what the democrats did the previous term, than actually accomplish anything themselves. I'm not aware of the Democrats every spending their entire term doing nothing else but undoing everything the Republicans did.
Hell, they've even shut down the bloody government because they couldn't agree with *each other*, when they had a majority in all branches of US gov't. Hell, it's been two years since Trump won and he's *still* railing against Hilary. Speaking of which, have the finally stopped having investigations into Hilary? I stopped counting at *13*.
You seriously don't consider all this behaviour to be seriously mentally unbalanced?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 27 2019, @05:58PM (3 children)
*cough*
When the head of the DNC corrupts the structure from top to bottom, dictating from day one who will ultimately be the party's nominee, that is pretty systemic. Shultz had to resign in disgrace when it was finally discovered how thoroughly she corrupted the process. Hillary, however, never had any grace, so she couldn't be disgraced.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:27PM (1 child)
So.... HILLARY!! EMAILS!!!! BENGHAZI!!@!
Sorry what were we talking about? Problems with MY party? Surely you must be mistaken, there are plenty of horrible people on BOTH SIDES! trollololol
fuck off already runaway, isn't that why you chose the name?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:53PM
Ho-hum. I'm the runaway, because, naturally enough, I left home without permission. That is a terrible crime for a minor to commit, isn't it? Now that you've had the obvious explained to you - do you have any other silly questions?
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Monday April 01 2019, @08:04PM
Thank you for proving my point. Yes, there was a shitstorm thanks to some idiot. And what happened? They were forced to resign and the DNC learned a valuable lesson. Finally, said person didn't have control of the party in any way shape or form. Systemic is *exactly* what it *wasn't*.
I don't think you even know what the word "systemic" even means, not to mention I question your sense of proportion, or your ability to look critically at the facts, if you think that that is in any way equivalent to the way the entire republican party, from the leadership right to the rank and file, conduct themselves.
I'm not going to argue with you on this any further because it's clear there's no point. I'm looking at the facts first, then making up my opinion based on that information. You're putting your tribalism and ideology first, and then looking for facts to fit your preconceived notions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @04:33AM
It is a systemic problem. Look at how many Democrats take corporate pac money or do bundling.
If there weren't a systemic problem, we wouldn't need organizations like the Justice Democrats to primary corporate Democrats, and we wouldn't have such a tough time getting prominent Democrats to support popular policies like single-payer Medicare For All. Many of the corporate Democratic primary candidates (like Gillibrand, Harris, and Booker) use weasel words to make it sound like they support single payer without actually doing so, or outright oppose it.
The reality is that the Democratic Party, while less corrupt than the Republican Party, is still corrupt, and has serious systemic issues.