<story><title>FCC rescinds claim that AT&amp;amp;T and Verizon violated net neutrality</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/fcc-rescinds-claim-that-att-and-verizon-violated-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>equalarrow</author><text>This only matters - voting in the presidential elections - in the red states. If you&amp;#x27;re a liberal, progressive, futurist, etc, and you&amp;#x27;re living in states like CA or NY or OR, then statistically speaking, those states are pretty much gonna go democrat regardless. So your vote counts &amp;#x27;less&amp;#x27; there.&lt;p&gt;What is needed is a bunch of these people to move to swing states where the vote really matters. Places like OH, FL, etc.&lt;p&gt;But, the blue states people have built their own little comfortable enclaves in their respective states and there&amp;#x27;s little chance they&amp;#x27;ll be moving to places like AK, TN, or MS.&lt;p&gt;Now, why does this matter? Well, because it&amp;#x27;s clear the republicans are pro big business and in the case of net neutrality, pro locking up the internet for the few (the few being, big media&amp;#x2F;telecom companies). There will never be a pro-citizen net neutrality policy as long as the republicans&amp;#x2F;big-business types are running the show.&lt;p&gt;So, living in CA, for instance, doesn&amp;#x27;t matter much in this case. Having a progressive, pro-net mentality will make much more difference in swing states.</text></item><item><author>e40</author><text>Yeah, I wonder how all those people feel that didn&amp;#x27;t vote because &lt;i&gt;it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, they&amp;#x27;re both the same&lt;/i&gt;?</text></item><item><author>shatteredvisage</author><text>I fear we can&amp;#x27;t stop what&amp;#x27;s happening. I miss days when I could afford political ignorance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrnichols</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also the fact that voting Dev or living in California don&amp;#x27;t always equal &amp;quot;good for the net.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re very aware of how much Hollywood and the RIAA&amp;#x2F;MPAA want their claws in as much of the internet as they can to &amp;quot;protect the entertainment industry.&amp;quot; They were drooling over SOPA&amp;#x2F;PIPA&amp;#x2F;COICA&amp;#x2F;etc.&lt;p&gt;The democrats will happily lock up the internet in favor of their own big media&amp;#x2F;telecom interests too. That&amp;#x27;s something I think people often forget. Remember, one of the first things Obama did was hire &lt;i&gt;five&lt;/i&gt; former RIAA lawyers to the DOJ.</text></comment>
<story><title>FCC rescinds claim that AT&amp;amp;T and Verizon violated net neutrality</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/fcc-rescinds-claim-that-att-and-verizon-violated-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>equalarrow</author><text>This only matters - voting in the presidential elections - in the red states. If you&amp;#x27;re a liberal, progressive, futurist, etc, and you&amp;#x27;re living in states like CA or NY or OR, then statistically speaking, those states are pretty much gonna go democrat regardless. So your vote counts &amp;#x27;less&amp;#x27; there.&lt;p&gt;What is needed is a bunch of these people to move to swing states where the vote really matters. Places like OH, FL, etc.&lt;p&gt;But, the blue states people have built their own little comfortable enclaves in their respective states and there&amp;#x27;s little chance they&amp;#x27;ll be moving to places like AK, TN, or MS.&lt;p&gt;Now, why does this matter? Well, because it&amp;#x27;s clear the republicans are pro big business and in the case of net neutrality, pro locking up the internet for the few (the few being, big media&amp;#x2F;telecom companies). There will never be a pro-citizen net neutrality policy as long as the republicans&amp;#x2F;big-business types are running the show.&lt;p&gt;So, living in CA, for instance, doesn&amp;#x27;t matter much in this case. Having a progressive, pro-net mentality will make much more difference in swing states.</text></item><item><author>e40</author><text>Yeah, I wonder how all those people feel that didn&amp;#x27;t vote because &lt;i&gt;it doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, they&amp;#x27;re both the same&lt;/i&gt;?</text></item><item><author>shatteredvisage</author><text>I fear we can&amp;#x27;t stop what&amp;#x27;s happening. I miss days when I could afford political ignorance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>balabaster</author><text>Perhaps someone needs to organize a movement of large populations of progressive future thinking utopian philosophers moving to different states to more effectively rig elections in the way of a more enlightened future.&lt;p&gt;Alas, I don&amp;#x27;t think there are enough of these types to actually effectively hack elections like that.</text></comment>