jrfox92 wrote:Jesus Was a Robot wrote:I think what's been missed by some that may seem to understand the reasoning behind this shit is that the government is continuing to restrict our liberties as a people.
Net neutrality is literally cutting our balls off. They are doing this shit to hurt us.
See, I don't think these two views, necessarily, relate the way you think they do.
Government is restricting out liberties for power, right?
Well, that power is partially attained by being in the pocket of corporations (such as ISP's).
So, when a certain government mandate prevents those corporations from doing whatever the fuck they want, the corporations don't like it. So they launch a campaign to convince you that the thing that prevents them from doing whatever they want is really government overreach to keep you from getting the iPhone10k™ rather than to keep them from, effectively, forcing you to buy the iPhone10k™ rather than stick to your Samsung∞™ because you think the iPhone10k™ is kinda shitty and too slow to watch porn on (this is just a metaphorical example, I don't actually think that ISP's are terribly concerned about which phone you use, they're concerned about you using their products & services and only their products & services).
It's restricting our liberties as a people, which in turn removes the power from our hands. We no longer are given an option of being "free" because our freedoms continue to be taken.
I'm not really following your analogy about the phones. I think I kind of get what you're saying there, but I don't fully follow.
The Government, as it exists right now, is being corrupted by men and women who have it in their best financial interest to make things easier for large corporations because 1. they own stocks in them and 2. they more than likely are receiving large sums of money in pay offs. It happens all the time and there is plenty of evidence.
jrfox92 wrote:
Acting like Net Neutrality is The Government's way of trying to rule the internet or whatever (assuming that's what you're suggesting) is like viewing anti-trust laws as The Government's attempt to take over all business or that Glass-Steagall was The Government's attempt to control the country's wealth.
It's another step towards moving the collective whole's thinking patterns. Just think about it for a minute. Why in the hell would they even care about doing this unless it favored something they are doing? They have been brainwashing us for as long as they have existed. It's willfully ignorant to ignore that. The Government is extremely under handed and they lie constantly. Is it really far fetched to believe they want to control us?
jrfox92 wrote:
And another thing; the government isn't why people are being brainwashed by social media.
People are being brainwashed by social media because they're too lazy to not be brainwashed by it.
While the government is definitely watching you and what you post, they're not what's convincing people that Nazi's are just misunderstood, that beating the shit out of people that aren't communists is okay, and that the Earth is flat.
People being too stupid to utilize critical thinking at any venture is why so many people are "being brainwashed".
I'm not entirely sure I agree here at all. I think they have their hands in almost everything now. Their tiny little fingers are constantly trying to bend mans will towards what they want.
I mean, we probably won't agree on this at all and that's totally fine.
