US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules

Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by givinguflac on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:06PM (#13943068)

The vote was 54-50, how the hell did the Democrats win?? The vote was almost 100% on party lines. Seems to me the Republicans have been all about this and the Democrats against it. I'm not in either party - but saying they are the same is just absurd.

Edit: Sorry, it's 50-48, even closer. Here's the list of cosponsors, not a single D. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-joint-re...

10 Repeating flawed logic to yourself does not make it true. 20 GOTO10.

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by criley2 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:14PM (#13943158)

You see this way too much, apathetic cynics will reply to anything political with the lazy and ignorant: "Democrats = Republicans, we all lose"

They put 0 effort into their analysis, they're just rote repeating a cynics trope that makes them feel smart and superior to the process.

It's difficult, after all, to educate yourself on the issues and respect the differences between the parties. It's difficult and complicated and messy to dig into the details and realize the differences.

Why do the work? It's far easier to be a cool hipster cynic and rote repeat out the standard script: "Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same party" "There's no differences"

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by ModernMech on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:17PM (#13943186)

Sanity check: there are only 100 senators, 2 per state.

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by givinguflac on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:21PM (#13943224)

Yeah I corrected my mistake but thanks.

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