US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules

Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by rayiner on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:31PM (#13944528)

I can't believe Democrats are beating the campaign finance reform angle after Trump. Hello: the candidate with far greater corporate funding lost. Now, big corporations (the New York Times, etc.) are what stand between Trump and his agenda.

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by JauntyHatAngle on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:29PM (#13945307)

You can't think about this like Democrats vs Republicans, They are both bought out by lobbyists. This is people vs corporation.

In the case of Trump, he IS one part of corporate America. He is benefiting himself and his slice of corporate America.

"Now, big corporations (the New York Times, etc.) are what stand between Trump and his agenda."

There are shades here, not as easy a statement to make as you have made.

While trump would definitely scare the American corps because of his protectionist, destabilising economic policy, the republican establishment is still behind a metric ton of the laws/bills etc that are bandied about, and they are corporate owned.

They still have the pockets of the politicians, they just don't like some of the other stuff. The weapons industry as a softball example would be jumping for joy at Trump.

So the corps are not standing between Trump and his agenda, but they definitely would have preferred a normal republican candidate.

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Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules by shorttime on Saturday March 25, 2017 @03:31AM (#13954493)

> You can't think about this like Democrats vs Republicans, They are both bought out by lobbyists. This is people vs corporation.

Why do the majority of people not recognize this?

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