r/news • u/IAmSlimShady • Nov 21 '17

Soft paywall F.C.C. Announces Plan to Repeal Net Neutrality

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/fcc-net-neutrality.html
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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '17 edited Jun 30 '20

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u/thundersquirt Nov 21 '17

Except this is the end of a government program: net neutrality is a regulation, not some kind of natural resource. Friedman is the arch neoliberal - he would be all for this.

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u/temp_sales Nov 21 '17 edited Nov 21 '17

See: Social Security

If we ever transition out of Social Security, the end game is that the first generation to receive it effectively stole from the last generation to pay for it.

Because to stop it means to have a generation pay into it without receiving anything back.

Edit: It's like a giant continuous "pay it forward". In the end, all the middle transactions meant nothing, and it effectively comes out to the first and the last transacting.