Re:U.S. House approves proposal to speed the deployment of s...
by stevenwoo on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:44AM
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What's in it for them? Their campaigns probably got donations from lobbyists for the interest in question.
If you don't have HBO - http://www.newsweek.com/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-congre...
Similarly, the anti net neutrality congresspeople can be found simply by examining the amount of campaign funds raised from the fiber/cable/wireless providers.
The folks who voted against allowing importation of equivalent drugs into the USA from Canada - just have to look at pharma contributions to congresspeople.
Re:U.S. House approves proposal to speed the deployment of s...
by jcao219 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @02:43AM
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I'm having trouble comprehending your fourth paragraph.
Re:U.S. House approves proposal to speed the deployment of s...
by Pica_soO on Thursday September 07, 2017 @03:00AM
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The idea is to take a new technology, that is bound to create horrible accidents, and push it faster forward then is its own pace - thus creating indirectly a surge of horrible accidents in the publics eyes, that would make the public rise against said technology.
A sort of - over-evaluation to kill a company- strategy.
Huge portions of traffic automated, because they really love new tech? Nah. They could have forwarded hyperloops and public traffic ages ago.
Do they get a bonus point for the next vote? Certainly not, a large part of the population earns its "good" livelihood with what this law is about to destroy.
So one wonders- can you push and incentivize the trading of still green bananas to the market- and the watch the populous lynch the producers/cripple with regulation, after the expected large failure happens? You would be seen as tech loving - and you could prevent social turmoil + reap large lobbyist gift basket.
Of course that would be very cynical and presume foresight on the part of the politician. Still.