Yes, I'm not naive enough to think these crackpots will be voted out of office, but the wheel will turn one way or another, especially if neutrality rules are killed by ISP lawsuit and the public gets annoyed in a SOPA-esque fashion.
"I have no trouble with them making ISPs treat Netflix, et al., the same as any other traffic, but when I go into surgery and need to have an uninterrupted stream sent to the top brain doctor in NYC, while I lay on the operating table in California, it seems like a really bad idea."
Contrary to ISP scare mongering, no sensible regulator or net neutrality supporter opposes network management that allows high-end business-class services to function properly on the Internet. That's never been a serious threat, it's one used by ISP lobbyists to scare people away from the real idea of net neutrality.
The sentence simply states they're one of several ISPs whose executives have stated Title II neutrality won't really hurt ISPs, not that they claimed otherwise. Perhaps that wasn't perfectly clear.
"That chart is for ionizing radiation (alpha/beta/gamma rays). Unrelated."
The chart itself notes this, but thought it helped make the point that if people want to worry about radiation in general, they have many other things to worry about (like bananas!).
Why is this even a point (being made repeatedly)? The article acknowledges the United States lies and engages in propaganda. Many of the articles exploring Putin's trolling are from the global press and not the U.S. government.
So precisely what is the point in declaring that "hey guys, the U.S. also does really awful things and lies a lot" pertinent to the conversation specifically about Russian Internet troll farms?
To be fair I'm not sure 40,000 rubles a month covers needing to make distinctions. The use of horse semen in the argument probably earns extra points though.
" I would add that tarring everyone who objects to the US sponsoring coups worldwide (eg, to take recent and salient examples, in Venezuela, Libya, Syria, Ukraine...) with the label of "Russian sympathisers" is a disgusting tactic."
Great point outside of the fact that NOBODY IS DOING THAT.
Knowing AT&T really really well, they're trying to sell the FCC on a flimsy condition saying that they'll agree to PART of the neutrality rules, most notably the ones they had no intent of violating (direct blocking of content). My guess is the Post heard this and misinterpreted it to be a broader offer than it actually is.
FCC could deny the deal, but I really do think this is one deal they'll let go through because acquiring a satellite TV company just as Internet video arrives is kind of idiotic long view...Wall Street has no idea what AT&T's really thinking here (outside of getting the NFL deal and reducing short term competition)>
Though I'm not entirely sure. I got yelled at yesterday for having one nice thing to say about Google in an entire article largely critical of them. :)
True transparency isn't just passing on a con-man's letter to his mark. It's passing it on with at least some kind of explanation that it's from a damn con man. Surely there's a way to do this on safe legal footing.
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So precisely what is the point in declaring that "hey guys, the U.S. also does really awful things and lies a lot" pertinent to the conversation specifically about Russian Internet troll farms?
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FCC could deny the deal, but I really do think this is one deal they'll let go through because acquiring a satellite TV company just as Internet video arrives is kind of idiotic long view...Wall Street has no idea what AT&T's really thinking here (outside of getting the NFL deal and reducing short term competition)>
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Though I'm not entirely sure. I got yelled at yesterday for having one nice thing to say about Google in an entire article largely critical of them. :)
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True transparency isn't just passing on a con-man's letter to his mark. It's passing it on with at least some kind of explanation that it's from a damn con man. Surely there's a way to do this on safe legal footing.
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