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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by peeters on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:13PM (#15603953)
If we're in a dystopian era, that must be in comparison to something. What era was, on the balance of factors, better than today?
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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by labster on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:30PM (#15604730)
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. It is the age of rationalists, it is the age of complete morons in government. It is the epoch of incredulity, it is the epoch of fake news.
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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by chiaro on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @06:06PM (#15605933)
In terms of sentiment, this came out yesterday:

>More than half of Americans (59 percent) said they consider this the lowest point in U.S. history that they can remember — a figure spanning every generation, including those who lived through World War II and Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/11/lowest-point...

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Re:Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net ... by shostack on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @03:18PM (#15604617)
A dystopian era is incredibly subjective in and of itself. I'm sure there are quite a few people in power right now who feel it is the dawn of a new golden (gilded?) age for them.
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