Ted, do you actually pay attention to what comes out of your mouth (or in this case, your fingers (or, more likely in this case, your nerdy intern Brandon who runs your Twitter account for you's fingers))?
I'm sure that someone, somewhere (possibly your generous Comcast donors, perhaps obvious anagram Reince Priebus, perhaps the Heritage Foundation, perhaps the voices you hear whispering to you at night) suggested that if you tweet the word "Obamacare" together with the phrase "Net Neutrality" you could make the latter sound like some vast Liberal Conspiracy to Pollute Our Precious Bodily Bandwidth with BSOD Panels and Labor Unions and Muslims and Things Like That.
Frankly, I'd go with tweeting "Benghazi" alongside "Net Neutrality," because at least there's some glimmer of connection there, in that the Internet actually reaches to Benghazi, and elsewhere in the world. The closest connection between the ACA and Net Neutrality is, far as I can tell, your tweet.
In short, unlike the ACA, "Net Neutrality" is the the way things have been working, the long-term status quo, and how the Internet was actually designed to work. "Net Neutrality" is not a massive legislative attempt to unravel a for-profit and largely employer-based health insurance system into something that doesn't bankrupt families and leave individuals dying for lack of coverage. Not that there's anything wrong with the Obamacare (well, there is, but you and I would probably disagree on the particulars), but the two things are very, very different things.
The below article actually describes what "Net Neutrality" really is, Ted, on the assumption that you learned all about it solely from PowerPoint presentations by your Corporate / Think Tank / Party HQ Overlords.. It has pictures, too, so you can follow along. And, for an Oatmeal article, it has a surprisingly small number of adult words and fart jokes in it. It's well worth a read so that future discussions of the concept can actually be what we call outside of Washington "reality-based."
(Other, more discerning folk might find the article educational as well.)
Dear Senator Ted Cruz, I’m going to explain to you how Net Neutrality ACTUALLY works – The Oatmeal
I thought you'd weigh in on this one.
So, did Comcast convince Ted Cruz that Net Neutrality is government control of the Internet, or is he being deliberately disingenuous because they bought him?
My immediate thought is that he's a bloody idiot who reflexively demagogues against anything that the president is looking to do, whether anyone is whispering in his ear or not.
But I keep hearing that he is a very sharp cookie, so I assume that it is deliberate disingenuousness.