Across the country, only 22% of Americans profess to understand Silicon Valley's hobby horse, net neutrality. The rest have no opinion about this lunacy.
The irony of TechDirt complaining about "childish temper tantrums and blaming industries" is thick.
If you say "I'm opposed to piracy" while denouncing every enforcement plan and offering none of your own, you're not opposed to piracy. Most of what Masnick has offered on this question is compulsory licenses, pools, and t-shirt sales.
This is a classically slippery response. In the first place, Pai isn't lying. Title I for ISPs was in fact the norm prior to 2002: the Common Carrier Report in 1998 lays it out and says it follows from the MFJ (1982) and Computer II (1980). So you're the one who's lying, not Pai.
Second, you're opposed to all forms of piracy enforcement, especially those like SOPA that would have made a difference.
And third, I don't have an angry mob that I feed red meat every day raring to go attack somebody. I'm a calm, polite, and moderate analyst who values sound policy over traffic, impressions, and web sales.
So yes, my moderate comments are very different from your inflammatory ones.
But I will grant that you may not know about the Common Carrier Report, the MFJ, and Computer II. If that's the case, you're not lying, you're simply negligent.
Mike, you don't get the fact that calling Pai a liar fuels the fire that ends up burning his wife and children. That's especially true when you're wrong on the facts as you are here. As Brent Skorup points out on Twitter, Democratic FCC Chairman Kennard classified all ISPs under Title I in 1998.
Yeah, I have no idea what Obama's net neutrality rules say. But I did see the YouTube where he ordered the rubes at the FCC to do his bidding. It was fun to see Wheeler to a 180 on Title II.
Net neutrality is a very quaint fixation. The only thing Title II accomplished for the American people was to speed up the propagation of the fake news that elected Donald Trump. Good show, fans of fictitious causes.
I have to wonder what the robber barons of SV will do when robbing is made illegal. Might they pivot to doing beneficial stuff that's perfectly lawful in the legacy world?
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You really do have to quit being so lazy.
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Civics question: why do we have independent expert agencies, girls and boys?
Clue: the answer doesn't have anything to do with popularity.
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Jesus, I'll do it for you: http://exstreamist.com/72-of-consumers-dont-know-what-net-neutrality-is/
Now quit being so lazy.
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Pot, Kettle
The irony of TechDirt complaining about "childish temper tantrums and blaming industries" is thick.
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$800,000 is not $600M
Why the blatant lying? This is the sort of misinformation that leads the crazies to racism, abuse, and violence.
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Have I missed something?
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Respect My Authoritah!!!
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It's the gentlemanly way to roll, dog.
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Second, you're opposed to all forms of piracy enforcement, especially those like SOPA that would have made a difference.
And third, I don't have an angry mob that I feed red meat every day raring to go attack somebody. I'm a calm, polite, and moderate analyst who values sound policy over traffic, impressions, and web sales.
So yes, my moderate comments are very different from your inflammatory ones.
But I will grant that you may not know about the Common Carrier Report, the MFJ, and Computer II. If that's the case, you're not lying, you're simply negligent.
So which is it?
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Slippery slope
You're the liar here. Please stop blogging.
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Net neutrality is a very quaint fixation. The only thing Title II accomplished for the American people was to speed up the propagation of the fake news that elected Donald Trump. Good show, fans of fictitious causes.
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Re: you guys have the 100% wrong take on net netrality
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Copyright violation!
This is why we need something like SOPA.
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Robber Barons
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