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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: 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.