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After removing all duplicate and fake comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission last year, a Stanford researcher has found that 99.7 percent[pdf] of public comments—about 800,000 in all—were pro-net neutrality.
"With the fog of fraud and spam lifted from the comment corpus, lawmakers and their staff, journalists, interested citizens and policymakers can use these reports to better understand what Americans actually said about the repeal of net neutrality protections and why 800,000 Americans went further than just signing a petition for a redress of grievances by actually putting their concerns in their own words," Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanford University, wrote in a blog post Monday.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:35PM (14 children)
Even if it were true, it matters not.
The government has no business allocating resources.
Choosing how to set up infrastructure, such as computer networking, is totally and completely the domain of The People, not the government.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Bobs on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:48PM (8 children)
No: politics is all about allocating resources: that is practically its definition.
Politics is about
- Political scientist Harold Lasswell [wikipedia.org]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @08:58PM (7 children)
Voluntary trade. Let's give it a try.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Pino P on Wednesday October 17 2018, @09:34PM (6 children)
When one entity owns the last mile, "voluntary trade" isn't so voluntary. In the case of wired Internet access, this is the city that owns rights of way. In the case of wireless Internet access, this is the Federal Communications Commission (or foreign counterparts).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @09:39PM (5 children)
That's a problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @10:00PM (4 children)
It is a feature for people who want their infrastructure to actually work.
Hard to make those cell calls when your neighboring town is using the same frequency range for other purposes. Extra hard to compete in a market once the big companies buy their geographic monopoly and refuse to give you access.
Hard to find a brain in that vacuous space between your ears. Did Ivan forget to patch in your input sensors? Maybe you were programmed with simple responses and have no learning capabilities?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @10:04PM (3 children)
That's what you are. You're a fascist.
You don't believe in freedom.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18 2018, @01:22AM (1 child)
Kill all men! Federal scientists have discovered that the Exterminate Men Angelic Contract System is the ideal implementation of anarcho-capitalism! Would you like to know more?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday October 18 2018, @05:09AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18 2018, @01:50AM
Ha, i just hope you are trolling, dunno if i can handle you being serious about that stupidity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @09:03PM (4 children)
Well when you want to run cables across town it becomes an issue for *gasp* the government!
You realize you can run all your own network infrastructure in your own home right?
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @09:07PM (2 children)
In the beginning [of the US], the government's sole purpose was to ensure the rights of the people, chief among which are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (i.e., the pursuit of self-interest).
The town should be completely private property, and so running cable across the town should be a matter of voluntary trade between individuals.
Alas, now it's a matter of politics.
Hmmm... we need to run cable through Elizabeth Warren's backyard. Let's ask People of Color how to go about doing that....
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @10:04PM (1 child)
First sucker punch a Nazi, then bulldoze their homes and run the cables through there.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @11:21PM
You can't do that! This is not Israel!!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 17 2018, @09:31PM
That's not even close to being true. Oh, wait, you're not married, are you?