From the outside it really seems that a large amount of the USA administration is actively working against the USA's interests. Which sounds weird.
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The GOP is doing everything it can to fuck up our government in favor of corporate and foreign interests: They are literally selling America out for a quick buck while all their rich asshole friends enjoy even more obscene wealth.
It depends on how you define "the USA". If you mean the people of this country, then absolutely they are working against us. If you mean the people with loads and loads of money, then no, they are working as hard as they fucking can for them.
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It's seems that way from the inside, too.
“The administration “ usually means the Executive Branch, the FCC, which in this case is trying to do a good thing. Net neutrality has long been supported by a majority of voters, and has been active on party lines: Democrat majority is trying to do the right thing for their constituents
In this case corporations affected sued to overturn and the court, the Judicial Branch, issued a stay of enforcement until the final ruling.
This is very much a problem of corporations having too much say, and one of the parties protecting corporations over citizens
It is weird to observe from the inside as well.
It's absolutely true, the republikkkan party is all about licking the boots of the corporations and shitting on the poor. The only helpful things they do is to make the ultra rich richer. It's too bad their base is brainwashed and too stupid to see it. I work with a clown and he keeps bringing up all the bad shit the republicans do and blames the democrats for it. It's wild. I said to him you do realize that it's the republicans that did that, not the democrats right? He looked at me and said I'm an idiot for believing that. I showed him the proof and he said I was making it up. You can't even talk to these people anymore.
I mean, if you vote for the GOP their platform is literally "me doing less work is good for you."
Imagine if you hired ANY professional under those terms "hi, yeah I'm Jack, the plumber. Listen, you don't want another bathroom, you want fewer bathrooms. Can't have the whole house smelling like shit can we? You understand."
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I'm more of a free market guy than most of y'all, but the internet should clearly be treated as a utility.
Thats what we were pushing for back in 2015
Since you brought it up, why are you a free market person?
I like the free market too, but having a small number of companies control a necessary resource definitely isn’t a free market.
That's part of the issue with free markets. There's a missing part to the term that most people drop for some reason, and that would be 'competition'. Competition doesn't last very long before there are winners and losers. When it comes to the economy, that means the winner is the largest company and the losers are the companies that were bought or shut down. The end game of free market competition is monopoly. The only reason the competition doesn't end is because of government regulation to facilitate and uphold capitalist free markets.
Yeah this is exactly what free market lunatics on the right don’t understand. Monopoly isn’t a free market. Free markets simply cannot exist without regulation to prevent unfair business practices.
Also any reasonable economist can tell you that the free market does not solve issues like the tragedy of the commons, because negative externalities are not factored in. It is also the government’s job to ‘internalize’ externalities so companies actually see the costs of, for example, polluting our air and water.
TLDR: free market != unregulated market
I respect your reasoning, though I disagree about free markets being better than a democratically managed economy. I think free markets are inherently oppositional to a cooperative society, and that the myth of the commons was invented as a justification for capitalism.
The only reason the competition doesn’t end is because of government regulation to facilitate and uphold capitalist free markets.
A.K.A. what Adam Smith was really talking about when he mentioned the "invisible hand" (contrary to what the laissez-faire cargo-cultists think).
what Adam Smith was really talking about when he mentioned the "invisible hand"
today, I got a clarified/alternate point of view. today was a good day. thank you, internet friend.
There's no such thing as a free market.
Yeah, I agree, I think a true free market is basically impossible because there will always be winners and those companies will certainly use their power to stifle competition. Also it is difficult for the consumer to evaluate every product they buy even if there is a number of competitors, so issues like what @[email protected] mentioned (sawdust in food) come up because consumers just don’t have the measurement equipment to check.
I like not having sawdust in my food and legal recourse when a company takes advantage of me, so regulated markets are my preferred method.
What do you like about free markets?
I think a free market in a given sector can encourage innovation. That’s not to say all sectors need innovation, there’s not a lot of innovation to be had in many sectors, like providing water, or housing, and those probably don’t need to be a free market. They could be provided by the government for example.
I could be convinced that some kind of hybrid market would work, though I'd have to see some reasonable examples of how we'd prevent monopolies and corporate collusion/racketeering.
I think that’s mostly driven by regulatory capture and the fact that lobbyists can drive regulation. If our government actually worked for the people, we could actually enforce monopoly laws, and the SEC (or equivalent in countries besides the US) would actually prevent mergers that threaten competition. The government is supposed to prevent this kind of behavior, but they have basically been bought out.
As for how to stop that from happening, I’m not sure. I think it would require at least getting rid of the two party system, because that stifles competition in the governance space. That means that even though there are probably lots of voters who would vote for a real candidate who would break monopolies, there is no such candidate available. But in order for that to work we would have to switch to a different voting method, like ranked-choice (or one of the even more fair ones).
18 hours later: Crickets
They aren't going to answer this question. Nobody reveals their stupidity on purpose.
Besides, we already know what all the Capitalist propaganda says. We know what the answer would be.
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Telecos hate the idea of free market on the internet when they are providing the service.
From their perspective, they are entitled to that cut... Why should Google get it all?
Maybe because we've been paying them a tax since the early 2000's to provide fiber broadband to the majority of Americans, which they have pocketed and refused to actually build any infrastructure to support this?
Critical thinking has been spotted!
Telcos are the worst of corporate parasites, at least telsa built a car and SpaceX built a rocket, and ~~Boeing can build a plane~~
Depends on the telco. I'm using a small local ISP that supports net neutrality and provides 10Gbps for $40/month. Perfect. Very grateful that I can use them instead of AT&T or Xfinity/Comcast.
I feel like everyone within developed countries should offer everyone a bare minimum free internet access. Like, even if it's as slow as dialup, at least it would still be access.
Then, if you want high speed internet, which I'm sure most people would want, then you pay monthly for that of course.
But this whole thing they're doing now, where they can throttle or even block sites at their own discretion for paying customers, well that's just totally back-asswards..
you know... I don't think I could pick many better ways to remind a population that they are nothing more than chattel.
superior quality rulling there, supreme court.
/s on that last sentence, cuz you never know.
I find it absolutely astounding that the president appoints the judges for the highest courts in the land.
Which fucking morons thought that would be a good idea? That's obviously going to be abused.
A bunch of slavermasters invented this system for exactly this purpose.
And yes, they were disgusting morons.
A bunch of idealistic revolutionaries ove 300 years ago. We just haven't fixed the problems because people now worship said revolutionaries.
Their system is a natural result of their "ideals": racism, slavery, classism, privilege, patriarchy, theft, genocide, etc.
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I don't know that I'd call them idealistic. They were landed nobles who didn't want to pay the increased taxes levied on them. Which in turn were to pay for the war their government had fought on their behalf to protect them from the native people whose land they had stolen. By exterminating those native people.
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it literally costs nothing to ignore the supreme court and lower courts people.
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T mobile already shaping the hell out of my internet. If I download a Netflix episode of a show without my vpn on, it could take like 15 minutes. With my vpn on it takes like 1 minute.
Hmm, those troublesome vpn users, we should probably ban vpn use. To eh, protect the children.
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The day that Chevron was struck down, a bunch of people here on Lemmy told me it was a good idea to leave these things up to the courts from now on.
And now here we are.
Those people are fucking morons.
What the fuck does a judge, especially a supreme court judge who doesn't need to have ANY experience, know about literally anything?
This shit is absolutely criminal... As it stands now my monopoly ISP REMOVED the 300mbps service and forced me into a 500mbps without my knowledge and increased the price by $40
Absolutely fucking criminal... All they are doing is throttling speed to give you that 300 so why the fuck can't it still exist? Oh yeah... Money. They want more money. It's so fucking gross...
The funny thing was that SCOTUS decided that Trump could commit any crimes he wanted if they were an "official presidential act" a few days later. I wish I could remember the usernames of the people who were arguing that with me so I could have asked them what they thought about Chevron after that happened. And now this.
WHAT THE FUCK!
Net Neutrality was always strongly supported across both parties from a voter perspective.
Yet the voters on the republican side continue to vote for people who outright oppose their interests in exchange for those politicians receiving bribes and payments.
This is a real thing, and it's very well documented with regards to net neutrality.
The supremes are debating if green lights are legal. For now drive anyway you'd like guys and gals. Also you may rape each other while running red lights. The supremes haven't discussed if they will report you to Cuba or not for that.
Ya know now that you mention it, I don’t recall Congress ever explicitly delegating the selection of the “go” and “stop” colors to any government entity. Wonder if you could now use this as a defense against running a red light…
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courts have been the best anti trump/repbuplican ad.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The current FCC, which has three Democratic and two Republican commissioners, voted in April to bring back net neutrality.
Broadband providers have since challenged the FCC’s action, which is potentially more vulnerable after the Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down Chevron deference — a legal doctrine that instructed courts to defer to an agency’s expert decisions except in a very narrow range of circumstances.
Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matt Schettenhelm said in a report prior to the court’s ruling that he doesn’t expect the FCC to prevail in court, in large part due to the demise of Chevron.
A panel of judges for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said in an order that a temporary “administrative stay is warranted” while it considers the merits of the broadband providers’ request for a permanent stay.
In the meantime, the court requested the parties provide additional briefs about the application of National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services to this lawsuit.
Brand X is a 2005 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the FCC had lawfully interpreted the Communications Act to exclude cable broadband providers from the definition of “telecommunications services.” At the time, SCOTUS said the lower court should have followed Chevron and deferred to the agency’s interpretation.
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