On the official twitter account of Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz posted the following about net neutrality.
"'Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government."
This appears to be a nearly lethal amount of ignorance. Obamacare a terrible analogy for net neutrality, as they are nothing alike. In a nutshell, net neutrality is the idea that internet providers can't discriminate based on content (meaning data heavy users like netflix can't be artificially slowed down by telecommunications companies because they use so much data).
In order to be able to slow down the internet for monetary gain (one instance is where Netflix paid Comcast to return the speeds to normal), it would make sense for such companies to buy influence in washington.
In fact, they have. Senator Cruz owes some of his campaign war chest to Comcast. That explains a lot. He's not stupid, he has just been corrupted. Comforting.
By the way, for those of you living in Utah's 3rd district, Comcast has also donated over $12,000 to Jason Chaffetz.
http://fortune.com/2014/11/10/ted-cruz-is-confused-on-net-neutrality/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fortunebrainstormtech+%28Fortune+Brainstorm+Tech%29
http://consumerist.com/2014/03/11/comcast-goes-on-capitol-hill-spending-spree-in-advance-of-merger-hearings/
https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00028958&cycle=2014
I didn't read the full article you attached with your post but it seems to me that it's just companies playing politics and it sounds fine to me. Not saying that's something I deem ethical or something I support or my idea of how this country should be run but they can do that. If you want influence on capital hill you need money to influence the people who will vote for your cause. It's like one of my previous blog posts about how America is slowly becoming an oligarchy and this is proof of such.
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