{"id":30579,"date":"2015-03-09T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30579"},"modified":"2015-03-08T10:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T14:28:54","slug":"net-neutering-now-its-time-to-repent-at-leisure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/net-neutering-now-its-time-to-repent-at-leisure\/","title":{"rendered":"Net neutering … now it’s time to repent at leisure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Walsh<\/a> has a message for all those net neutrality warriors doing their fist-bumps of triumph:<\/p>\n

Dear Net Neutrality Proponents,<\/p>\n

You dear, sweet buffoons.<\/p>\n

I know you\u2019re quite impressed that the Federal Communications Commission just passed<\/a> a sweeping set of regulations granting themselves control over the Internet. President Barack Obama considers this a glorious victory. Liberals and Democrats across the land are delighted. Even some corners of cyber space \u2014 the ones populated by masochists and nincompoops<\/a> \u2014 are cheering loudly, excited to finally be under the jurisdiction of an enormous federal bureaucracy. Hallelujah!<\/p>\n

Now, Gullible Americans, I realize that you think you\u2019ve just been once again liberated from the shackles of the free market and whisked away to a fanciful land where Father Government makes sure everything is nice and fair and everyone is sharing their toys like good boys and girls. I know you are under this impression. I mean, I can\u2019t blame you. It\u2019s right there in the title. They call it \u201cNet Neutrality,\u201d for goodness sake! It\u2019s neutral! Neutral means fair! Fair Internet! Who can quibble with a fair Internet! Only big bad corporations and their right wing minions, you think. Fox News and the Koch Brothers and Lex Luthor and other scary names.<\/p>\n

The FCC tells us that Net Neutrality will give us a free and open Internet by granting them the power to regulate it under laws that were written 60 years before the Internet existed as a common household service<\/a>. Consumers need to be protected from the possibility that Internet providers will block traffic to certain sites, or set up paid prioritization systems for consumers or web services who pay more. That\u2019s what this is all about<\/a>, you think. The FCC is looking out for the little guy again.<\/p>\n

Good old FCC, always fighting for truth, justice, and bureaucratic control.<\/p>\n

But, see, this is where I need you to stop and think, Gullible Americans. It\u2019s too late now, but I need you to finally try to learn something here. The government is not the knight in shining armor you think it is \u2014 even when it\u2019s run by Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Walsh has a message for all those net neutrality warriors doing their fist-bumps of triumph: Dear Net Neutrality Proponents, You dear, sweet buffoons. I know you\u2019re quite impressed that the Federal Communications Commission just passed a sweeping set of regulations granting themselves control over the Internet. President Barack Obama considers this a glorious victory. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,831,84,15,13],"tags":[459,58,322,661],"class_list":["post-30579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-government","category-technology","category-usa","tag-censorship","tag-internet","tag-nannystate","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Xd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30580,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30579\/revisions\/30580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}