Net neutrality is all but dead. Here's what happens now.

https://mashable.com/ ^ | 4/23/18 | MJ FRANKLIN

[rurgan]

Ajit Pai and Trump saved the internet.

This net neutrality crap was a soros communist scam

great graphs . what site ?

Government agencies like the FDA,EPA , FEC, IRS etc. are a cancer and unconstitutional. amazing so many freepers and conservatives were fooled by this net neutrality crap that is just a lot of heavy handed government regulation and oversight.

Ronald Reagan was right : Government is not the solution to any problem government is the problem.

I'm glad Trump is reducing government regulations . They were choking the economy and our freedom. i’m amazed at the amount of freepers i had “debates” with on this net neutrality crap. Why do they love government regulations? government is a cancer as the gov schools and comey, clapper, sessions , venezuela etc. prove .

[rurgan]

The number in the federal registry graph is especially
informative:

As you can see every democrat president greatly increased the pages of government regulation . Trump has reduced them the most Then Reagan reduced them. And Obama wow look at obama’s
last year that commie creep exploded the number of regulations that year more than any year ever. I guess he wanted to cripple the economy more. Those government regulations were choking the USA economy and our freedom. Net neutrality was supposed to choke the internet . Hope Trump is able to keep reducing regulations at this rate . from the graph looks like he is down to when clinton got elected who of course increased them a lot.

I hope that is enough to counter the FEd's agressive and imo out to get Trump raising interest rates.people tell me the fed is not political . oH yeah? look at a graph of rates. The Fed kept the rates near zero for practically all of obama 's 8 years. if that's not political then what is? so what we had under obama was a bubble fake economy fake stock market covered by fake news and fake science(global warming). we have been living in worse times than 1984 and the matrix. Hopefully Trump can pull us out but the fed is dangerous and the only thing that might ruin the party crashing their own fake economy

[rurgan]

This gives me hope. Trump reduced in 1 year the number of pages of government regulations to around 60,000 the same as Clinton’s first year his lowest count. obama had that at 90,000 pages of government regulations.

Hope that’s enough from the FEd crashing their own fake economy they created politically for Obama as for 8 years they kept interest rates near zero creating a fake economy.
Now I know for hillary they would have kept them at zero or increased at a slower pace. don’t think they need to increase at this rate with only 2.0 gdp . so it’s politcal

https://cei.org/blog/trump-regulations-federal-register-page-count-lowest-quarter-century

Today, Friday, December 29, 2017, is the last federal workday of the year.

This presents an opportunity to round up all rules and regulations produced by agencies appearing in the calendar-year 2017 Federal Register

The calendar year concluded with 61,950 pages in the Federal Register this morning. Here’s the cover.

This is the lowest count since 1993’s 61,166 pages. That was Bill Clinton’s first year, and his own lowest-ever count.

[rlmorel]

rurgan, good posts, and I largely agree.

These graphs were from George Washington University at this link, which is sadly extremely Leftist (I am told, but never been there)

On the other hand, while I am sure that they at GWU don't see the increasing weight of legislative overhead as being a negative, people like you, I, and others of like mind do indeed see it as a cancer, and accurately, too.

I must admit that I like using leftist material to buttress a conservative point I may try to make. I enjoy listening to Dan Bongino, because he also takes satisfaction in using their own words against them. (A good example of this is the work by Heather MacDonald in her famous piece from the Wall Street Journal: The Myths of Black Lives Matter and her book "The War on Cops", both of which use government statistics to prove her points.)

Speaking for myself (and I know there are many who agree with me, though not all) I do not eschew all legislation. I am not an advocate of anarchy, I am an advocate of a constitutional republic, and to have one, we must have laws. What I am opposed to is a crushing, overbearing burden of laws that regulate down to the level of what we eat, paper we can use, or light bulbs we can buy.

So, like you, I do see hope in this. We have to start somewhere. Every huge mountain is climbed by starting out with a single step in the right direction.

As for conservatives who buy into "Net Neutrality" I think there are several reasons...the less flattering is that they are self-centered about what they want, and they like things for free (Internet speed) so they sign on. I don't think you can be for it and be a conservative at many levels. But there are also people who buy into it thinking that it should be treated like interstate highways with respect to funding. I think they are just wrong. They accept an incorrect premise to begin, and build off of that.

In both of those cases, it opens the Internet to censorship and government corruption, a Pandora's Box that once opened, will be very, very difficult to seal up again.

Again, good posts you wrote. I enjoyed reading them.

[foreverfree]

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