US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules

Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by neaden on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:28PM (#13943303)

Eh. Multiparty systems generally form a couple of coalitions anyway. It's not really clear to me what the big difference would be if Rand Paul had an L next to his name instead of an R.

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by pfranz on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:39PM (#13943415)

I think the idea is that with multiple parties the coalitions would be more fluid. There's already a soft version of that with "blue dog" and "gang of 8." You do need some sort of coalition to get anything passed.

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by pcmaffey on Thursday March 23, 2017 @03:34PM (#13943371)

Perhaps he'd vote against instead of abstaining, since he wouldn't be beholden to the big R?

Breaking the dialectic stranglehold the two party system has on this country would be the benefit. Nothing's perfect, but multiparty gives the system more diverse voices, more opportunity for people to choose and think for themselves.

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by gpawl on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:05PM (#13943726)

voting with the minority is the same as abstaining.

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