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i read up on
Ajit Pai (FCC chairman, who dismantled net neutrality)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Pai
and i think he's a good guy.

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@xahlee But he is literally Hitler! We are going back to the days of 1200 baud modems! 2015 was a very dark time! -The "informed"

@xahlee Comcast's stooge. Wait until $ISP decides to block Skype, Slack, or whatever VOIP/chat you use, to force you to buy a higher price bundle (including their own VOIP/chat service). Not good for the 'Net or the country. Or, you know, the people that the #FCC is supposed to be of, by, and for.

@lnxw48a1 well, that's just what you think.

what will happen, we don't know.

and, if it happens as you said, the problem isn't due to lack of regulation, it's somewhere else. Probably corruption, by, big corps, such as google , hillary, etc.

@lnxw48a1
regulations arose, mostly by giant corporations, so they can keep things in control, keep making money, keep status quo.

@lnxw48a1 on the surface, we small guys, hear things, that these regulation and monopoly laws protects us. In fact, it's the opposite.

Basic Economy.

Reading Notes on Basic Economics
wordyenglish.com/misc/basic_ec

@xahlee Anti-monopoly laws do protect regular people. If you want to reduce regulations, there are plenty that are legitimately harmful. But these are not.

@lnxw48a1 i expected you to say that.

read Basic Economics, i linked to before.

@xahlee Take "Intermediate Economics" (macro and micro) at your local Cal State University campus. You'll soon learn that things don't quite work that way.

@lnxw48a1 @xahlee I wish we were taught to think and question for ourselves, versus being exclusively spoon fed by a chalkboard facing lecture auditorium.

@xahlee @lnxw48a1 We aren't taught to question so much, to tinker with ideas and concepts. It's spoon fed tons often it seems to me. Ugh.... Classes at my campus generally meet once or twice a week per class, mostly lecture.

@lnxw48a1 @xahlee I could teach myself much more fully than that with a group of well educated friends for feedback, which is what I'm actually doing. I then go to college on the side for labs and more scientific peer-review.

@xahlee @lnxw48a1 (At least I'm doing this for my beginning liberal arts idea).

@zacts I have always taught myself, but I also enroll in formal instruction because otherwise there are "holes" where I failed to learn some particular sub-area of the subject matter. The two together work well.
@zacts I had an operations management class at a campus that believed "learn by doing" meant letting a classmate who was an assistant manager at Staples tell us (every week) how Staples was somehow entrepreneurial (an important term at the time) and different for doing the same thing that every other employer was doing (whatever the focus was that week). That was one of my most anticipated classes, ruined by his bloviating.
@xahlee #1970s gas shortages were caused by a series of embargoes by the oil producers cartel (oligopoly) OPEC. I hope the rest of the book is not so wrong about such well-documented events.
@lnxw48a1 @xahlee A Comcast's stooge sounds like an admirable person these days. Like anyone who is not pees his panties because of the shitty Net Neutrality hysteria.