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Republican budget would prohibit FCC from enforcing net neutrality rules
Proposal slashes funding and kills rules until court case is decided.
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House Tries To Use Appropriations Bill To Kill Neutrality Rules, Strip FCC Authority And Funding
For most of the last few months the House has been holding a series of "investigative" hearings into the FCC's passage of net neutrality rules. On the surface, the hearings claim to be aimed at ensuring the FCC is operating transparently and within the confines of its authority, but in reality... -
The GOP Is Trying to Nuke Net Neutrality With a Budget Bill Sneak Attack
Republicans on Capitol Hill have been scheming to kill the US government’s landmark new open internet policy ever since it was approved—and their latest gambit is a particularly crafty sneak attack...
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I just don't think these guys realize everything they try and block or go up against is something that the republican teen or young adult of tomorrow is going to remember and not like, if the only thing keeping me a republican is the fact I like your conservative fiscal policies turns into you using those policies to destroy things I love, then you have lost a future republican vote. Their party is going to die the slow death in federal elections if they keep sticking their nose up at everything young people care about.
This is absolutely it, and it isn't just young people either. Plenty of adults who are just interested in smaller government are looking at what the Republican Party says and seeing it is in complete contrast to what the Republican Party does. There is a slowly growing movement at the local level to weaken the establishment but it is a very uphill battle, unfortunately. The rot runs deep.
And yet the party completely dominates most state legislatures and governorships, both chambers in Congress, the current Supreme Court and even this president says “in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican.” If this is a slow death, it's awfully slow.
Their base audience and voting block are the older people of the world, the baby boomers will outnumber the Millennial Generation for a while yet. The truth is most young people only vote in major election years, that's why so much crappy legislation happens 2 years after a Presidential run, the base will keep eating up the bs. That's also how they stay so heavily in power at the local level.
Maybe a more comforting thought than it is true, yet.