Remember the crisis that was going to occur with of the end of net neutrality?
When the left predicts disaster and it doesn’t happen, there’s no accountability. Down the rabbit hole it goes, and on to the next prediction. What matters is the temporary buzz of alarm that gets the juices flowing;
A year ago, “net neutrality” zealots warned that its repeal would spell doom for a “free and open” internet. They could not have been more wrong…
Repealing “net neutrality” regulations “would be the final pillow in (the internet’s) face,” said The New York Times. The ACLU said it “risks erosion of the biggest free-speech platform the world has ever known.” CNET declared that “net neutrality repeal means your internet may never be the same.” CNN labeled repeal the “end of the internet as we know it.”
One of the Democratic commissioners on the FCC claimed that repealing “net neutrality” would “green light to our nation’s largest broadband providers to engage in anti-consumer practices, including blocking, slowing down traffic, and paid prioritization of online applications and services.”
What do we hear now? The sound of crickets chirping rather than the mea culpas we should be hearing.
It reminds me of psychics whose track record for predicting events is close to zero but it doesn’t seem to hurt their following. People tend to remember the few times prognosticators are right rather than the many times they’re wrong. People tend to focus on the concerns (and the stoked-up fears) of the moment.
Not only were the predictions of internet doom wrong, they were the opposite of what actually happened:
In fact, average internet speeds climbed by roughly a third last year. The number of homes with access to fiber internet jumped 23% last year, according to the Fiber Broadband Association.
Oh, and “net neutrality” was a nonissue in the Democratic midterm campaigns. One party official said that Dems didn’t campaign on it because: “It’s not something that people bring up in their top list of concerns.”
And no Democrat was going to remind them of it.
Net Neutrality would have killed me but I was already dead from Trump’s tax cuts. ~WTTE seen on Insty earlier
Accountability? For Democratic campaign slogans? Oh how precious!
The real reason speeds went up was that so many users were killed by the repeal.
The global warming crisis killed us all decades ago.
Liars lie. That’s who they are. That’s what they do. Even about their lies; they lie.
And in more Breaking NEWS: Water is wet.
Eventually…there’s going to be a comeuppance and the left ain’t gonna like it.
I don’t read any news without asking myself “who wants me to believe this and why might they want that”?
I died in 1980 when Reagan was elected, my dog died too and remains dead. I was reborn by election of that guy from Arkansas and his wife, the smartest woman in all of history.
Ok…parker, you owe me a new keyboard…coffee bloody everywhere…
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
I recall predictions about a year ago that broadband providers would wait for legal challenges play out before making drastic changes.
See here:
https://www.wired.com/story/heres-how-the-end-of-net-neutrality-will-change-the-internet/
Net Neutrality was Obamacare for high-bandwidth service providers and their consumers.
The global warming crisis killed us all decades ago.
The consensus foretells this will be repeated over decades. All of the hypotheses cannot, on average, be wrong.
“What do we hear now? The sound of crickets chirping rather than the mea culpas we should be hearing.
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Not only were the predictions of internet doom wrong, they were the opposite of what actually happened:” – Neo
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Gee, what a surprise.
Manju is right about many businesses waiting to see how things shake out for the final verdict, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Democrats hyped a minor economic & technical issue into Doomsday on Steroids — again.
And they wonder why people cheer when Trump castigates the Fake News.
I’m going with this warning, for all media and factions:
Frederick on January 8, 2019 at 3:26 pm at 3:26 pm said:
I don’t read any news without asking myself “who wants me to believe this and why might they want that”?
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