Net Neutrality but not in a Spicer World
Hello there again readers and welcome back to Coffee Break Liberty, a blog where we tackle books, news and many other things under the sun where liberty is a guiding principle. If this is your first time here we would like to extend a special warm welcome to you and hope you enjoy yourself while here. Also, we want to extend an apology for this post coming out so late. With recent travel around the states this week it has been a bit difficult to get behind a laptop for any period of time.
What we are seeing again come up in the news and on social media is net neutrality, the name given to a lie. This lie is that with government intervention of the internet, which has always been free, will some how be more free and better for the consumer. This is simply not the case and the name disgusts me, suggesting things will be neutral when regulated by the government, please. Net neutrality is nothing more but crony capitalism where the government will come in pick winners and losers thus making nothing neutral at all. This is another case where the government and those that support this awful piece of legislation are in favor of harming some to “help” others, when what always happens is everyone gets harmed. These types of actions taken by the government are not only immoral at their base but usually increase costs to the end consumer anyways even when touted as a piece of legislation that will save the consumer money. An example of this right now are the hosting costs that I pay for this website to be hosted. These costs have increased nearly 40% since net neutrality laws have gone onto the books. Crony capitalism sucks no matter what side of the aisle it comes from and it is odd to see so many Bernie Sanders supporters which all felt the same way last year feel differently now and support net neutrality.
There was another resignation at the White House this past week. Sean Spicer, the press secretary resigned and is now entering the workforce!! I for one would never want to be the person that has to interview Sean when he applied for a job! Could anyone imagine how that would go? When asked about something on his resume, would he then say it was an alternative resume?! I don’t know why but this kinda thing sounds like it would be hilarious and frightening to watch… perhaps another SNL bit in the future.
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LWS
