US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules

Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by komali2 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:04PM (#13943706)

This is politics. Nothing is "practical" except what you are willing to do. A man got on TV and said "I could shoot supporters in the street and still get votes," then was elected president.

You can do literally anything. Saying "it's impractical" is just you getting in your own way.

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by cle on Thursday March 23, 2017 @08:52PM (#13945674)

That's nonsense, he was elected President because enough of the right people voted for him. He could very easily have done things to piss them off and then would not have been elected President. Just because his election didn't fit in with your mental model of how politics works, doesn't mean that it didn't fit in to any model. It did, it just wasn't yours.

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by notmarkus on Friday March 24, 2017 @09:25AM (#13948731)

Isn't the obvious conclusion that one could say the exact same thing to you? Just because it doesn't fit your model of practicality...

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