We have all become apathetic to the claims of the left about any policy that derives right-of-center. The tax cuts, pulling out of the climate deal, repairing Obamacare, and a number of other Trump Administration efforts were all promised to leave us as a nation with piles of dead bodies clogging our roadways.
One of the best examples of these hysterical reactionary promises was the issue of Net Neutrality. That particular policy was special because not only were we promised to be doomed out of existence but experts across the media attributed all manner of negative consequences would result.
Well this week was the one year anniversary of the striking down of the proposal, and it serves as a great lesson to go over much of the mayhem this was promised to provoke. Here’s hoping your dial-up services can load the entries, and someone in the house does not try to place a phone call and knock you off of the intertubes while reading!
Today is the one year anniversary of the death of the Internet.
Mark the occasion with a joke about how it costs 7 cents to send a tweet.https://t.co/HU6i6BcI5H
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Remember how the Internet was going to be
really
slow
like
this?
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Bernie Sanders knows tech. pic.twitter.com/uWk0I1lgEV
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
No one better to deliver the unvarnished hyperbole than Bernie, the man who pledged to go after millionaires — and then promptly became one.
Who can forget the LGBT community? pic.twitter.com/EsLvFksZg0
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
How was this an attack, exactly? Well according to the article, “Stripping away net neutrality is the latest attempt by the Trump Administration to silence voices of already marginalized communities and render us invisible,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. I can come up with just one example that proves Sarah wrong: Eric Maza sure has not been silenced, nor marginalized. In truth, he is one who is working to silence and marginalize others, USING the internet.
Thankful the repeal didn't roll us back to rotary phones. pic.twitter.com/GFHSym841v
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Need to Google what “rotary phone” even means…if Google is still a thing anymore.
Then of course, there had to be a shorthand explanation about what the President has done.
Trump raped the Internet. pic.twitter.com/5zj4WH5PqX
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
The unprecedented era of innovation, creativity and civic engagement Netflix refers to is 2014-2018. pic.twitter.com/jHNl3GyZTZ
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Just weeks after #NetNeutrality passed average internet speeds increased. That is an innovation, and it allowed me to engage with Jessica Jones on Netflix with a higher resolution.
Thankful to the Koch brothers for letting me tweet this. pic.twitter.com/7dZGJVR7dz
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
“Broke The Internet”. I’m going to need more bandwidth just to be able to draw up the list of how many times Alyssa Milano has been incorrect.
Explains why I never see abortion on the Internet anymore. pic.twitter.com/3wvZoCLpDl
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
After that video of technicians using aborted fetuses as puppets, maybe less abortion information is not a bad idea???
Anyone remember when you needed ISP permission for what you can see online? pic.twitter.com/D88lLHuyLZ
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
I had to pay $4.99 to read that tweet.
U mad? pic.twitter.com/3UPaJGG90n
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Note how those bleating about “full access” on the web are the same ones who cheer when Twitter suspends accounts, FaceBook deplatforms outlets, and YouTube demonetizes users with whom they disagree. (Quite certain there is a word for this, but Thesaurus.com is STILL loading!)
History is never pleased. pic.twitter.com/j5N9HWsODr
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Points for clever double meaning of "throttle." pic.twitter.com/ofhJE5ZrQa
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Now let us not forget the true victims in all of this furor: the journalists!
I feel like you're selling me on repeal. pic.twitter.com/GHVNOIEcDa
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
CNN just calling apples.https://t.co/dBKcK9svUg pic.twitter.com/VMnvtKl97L
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Now you know something? CNN may have a case here. If you look at how their ratings have completely collapsed since Net Neutrality was rolled back…
Next, look at all the various groups that we no longer hear from as a result of this legislation. For instance, remember when we had black accounts on the intertubes?
I can't remember the last black voice I saw around these parts.https://t.co/oF095IC1cK pic.twitter.com/Ft222UHCmu
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Suddenly they care about the rubes.https://t.co/8THIe1pmp7 pic.twitter.com/rHL4sG4K2g
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
Think of the children.https://t.co/WmMfOPylBW pic.twitter.com/bDsLFxgjbf
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
This place is so boring since we no longer are able to hear from the blacks, the students, and the rurals!
And to close it out, Holden brings up a valid point that explains it all:
It's telling that after this thread is getting some attention, hardly anyone is jumping in to defend Net Neutrality or excuse these crazy predictions. On Twitter where you can always find some crank to defend anything.
— Holden (@Holden114) June 11, 2019
It is one of the key components to outrage — there is never accountability after it is disproven. In fact, usually those shown to be blatantly incorrect still claim some form of nobility for “caring”. Frankly, anyone who was pushing this hysterical conspiracy should have their accounts closed down.
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