Senate confirms Biden FCC pick as 5 Republicans join Democrats in 55-43 vote. Anna Gomez confirmation means "FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality."

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• Creddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That Cruz quote is insane. Net neutrality will not be easily sold to the public as “radically left-wing”. Nobody is going to believe that shit.

  It literally has neutrality right in the name!

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not the name that makes it a centrist policy, it’s substance.

    Hell, if policy names reflected their substance, then the GOP’s “protect children” initiatives would prioritize gun violence and hot hating on RuPaul.

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    • Creddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, I know. Right on.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The NRA is an official child murder advocacy group.

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  • FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It will get a new name given to it. Each perspective develops their own terminology in order to make their opponents stances seem less appealing.

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet,” Cruz said.

  What the fuck jobs does this sack of butter think will be killed

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  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Obamacare for the Internet”

    For all its flaws the ACA has worked out relatively well for most people. Is that a tactic that finds any purchase with anyone not already in the bag?

    I understand its primary reason and you play to the base, but this seems short sighted even for the zodiac killer.

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    • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ted Cruz knows that people were for the ACA and against Obamacare, so that’s why he says this

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know the individual mandate really messed me up one year. My workplace and the exchange were too expensive so I get fined for not having enough money. Meanwhile my employer’s health insurance company made bank.

      If the ACA had gone through without the individual mandate I would have been a lot happier. Go ahead and argue with me but unless you have a few hundred dollars to give me I am very unlikely to change my views. And before you start, yes I live in a state where the rate isnt $0.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Confirmation means she can, until it becomes clear that she isn’t going to.

  Then the excuses will start. And centrists will say that anyone who remembers this article “doesn’t know how government works.”

  I’m saying this now because I intend to link back to this comment when it happens.

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  • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only time we ever had net neutrality it was under a “centrist.”

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re angry.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let me steal someone else’s thunder then, “you don’t know how the government works!”. I don’t know either so me saying this is meaningless, but at least we skipped the “excuses” part lol

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• cedarmesa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Biden does good thing…means fcc can restore net neutrality. This is an awesome thing and a big fucking deal. Ted cruz makes a sensationalist statement crafted of pure horseshit. Every comment in this thread is about cruzs’ horseshit sculpture. This is why disinformation wins. Doesnt matter that youre criticizing cruz. He changed the narrative and effectively took a win for biden and has people discussing non-reality. Ignore the toddlers, get your country back.

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  • nxdefiant@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In Ted’s defense he can’t craft his statements from anything else. He’s a horse shit man with horse shit thoughts using horse shit hands to do a horse shit job of anything he touches, which turns to horse shit.

    His heart escapes this fate by not existing.

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• LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hopefully we’ll see the return of net neutrality. It was implemented the last time that the FCC was 3-2 dem, then it was revoked when that switched to 2-3. This is the first time that dems are in charge since that revocation.

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  • visor841@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For it to really stick, it needs to be enshrined in law. Until then it’s just a current FCC policy that could get easily removed at some point in the future.

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    • LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That depends on how long FCC is able to keep it implemented for, IMO.

      Something that gets lost a lot in policy discussion is that once you implement a business regulatory policy like this, you create a constituency for that policy. It’s an advantage in preserving hard fought gains but that also means the timelines need to work for it. The problem net neutrality faced the first time is that it was (a) late in Obama’s presidency, (b) held up by court cases, and © reversed early on by Trump’s FCC. There wasn’t much time for the internet business community to build a business model around it.

      If net neutrality is regulated into existence for 5+ years, at that point businesses will have come to rely on its existence. Taking it away will be harder, especially for a big pro-business party if it’s getting an earful from megacorporations that want things to stay as they are.

      Of course, I do agree that legislating it is the most robust option and would be the best course of action. I just don’t see legislation as the only option with any longevity. FCC rules can be that if the timelines work.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Five Republicans voted in favor of the Gomez nomination, according to the Senate Press Gallery. The Republican yes votes came from Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, and Todd Young of Indiana.

  Yes, they are Republican. They made the right choice, and should be named and thanked vs focusing news on Cruz.

  Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Jerry Moran (R-Kans.) did not vote.

  Why not? This is your job.

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  • GopherOwl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Any vote Moran misses is a win for Kansas, and America.

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dunno about Booker but Moran is a moron.

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    • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Booker’s confirmed sketchy as fuck. Sincerely a New Jerseyan.

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  • twisted28@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The check didn’t clear

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fuck yeah. Shove a banana up Ajit Pai’s ass while you’re at it.

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  • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I vote pineapple instead

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  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gotta remove the excessively large coffee mug first.

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I assume you mean a bunch and not a singular banana

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now make it a basic right and utility like water and electricity, PLEASE.

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• fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ted Cruz can seriously pound some sand right now.

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• solstice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Question: can we expect net neutrality rules to change every 4/8 years with each new administration?

  How will that impact everything, broadly speaking? Unstable rules and regs are hard to work around.

  People were sending Ajit Pai death threats. Were they aware his rules would be reversed in4-8 years? I sure wasn’t.

  Just curious, I have no idea how this sort of thing works.

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t know the outcome of general elections ahead of time, so there’s no reason to feel misled.

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    • solstice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess I meant I didn’t realize these things can and do swing back and forth with the political pendulum.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Biden tried again in May with the nomination of Gomez, a State Department digital policy official who was previously deputy assistant secretary at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from 2009 to 2023.

  “If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet,” Cruz said.

  The Republican yes votes came from Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, and Todd Young of Indiana.

  Annoyed at how many vote no on a candidate as qualified and non-controversial as this," commented Harold Feld, senior VP and consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge.

  Media advocacy group Free Press said the “unprecedented 32-month delay” that deadlocked the FCC “was the result of concerted efforts by the phone, cable, and broadcast lobbies to hamstring the agency that oversees their businesses.

  Gomez’s confirmation restores the agency’s full complement of commissioners and provides a tie-breaking vote on issues related to diversifying media ownership, promoting broadband affordability and protecting the rights of Internet users.”

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  The original article contains 556 words, the summary contains 196 words. Saved 65%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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  • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “If confirmed, she would give the Democrats a majority at the FCC that would enable them to impose a radical left-wing agenda, including investment-killing and job-killing so-called net neutrality rules, otherwise known as Obamacare for the Internet,” Cruz said.

    This is complete nonsense and I fail to believe he isn’t aware of that.

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• Absolutemehperson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So we’re having American news shit everywhere now? Fantastic.

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  • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah. America still heard a lot about GDPR. Because some policies just change the whole internet.

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