{"id":47922,"date":"2014-11-11T06:37:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/ted-cruz-is-a-dolt-obamacare-for-the-internet-edition.html"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:11:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T16:11:54","slug":"ted-cruz-is-a-dolt-obamacare-for-the-internet-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/ted-cruz-is-a-dolt-obamacare-for-the-internet-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Is A Dolt (Obamacare for the Internet Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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))?<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/i> different things.<\/p>\n

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."<\/p>\n

(Other, more discerning folk might find the article educational as well.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nDear Senator Ted Cruz, I’m going to explain to you how Net Neutrality ACTUALLY works – The Oatmeal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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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 … Continue reading “Ted Cruz Is A Dolt (Obamacare for the Internet Edition)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,100,374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-dolts","category-money-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48090,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/14\/ted-cruz-is-a-dolt-obamacare-for-the-internet-edition-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":47922,"position":0},"title":"Ted Cruz Is A Dolt (Obamacare for the Internet Edition, Part 2)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Nov-14 10:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ted Cruz, Texas Senator, Tea Party Icon, and Not An Internet Expert, has doubled down on his tweet the other day about Net Neutrality being \"Obamacare for the Internet\" with an Op-Ed in the Washington Post, wherein he manages to demonstrated he's even more ignorant (or diinsabout the Internet and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ted-Cruz.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ted-Cruz.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ted-Cruz.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ted-Cruz.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":47964,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/on-politicians-as-people-and-as-demons.html","url_meta":{"origin":47922,"position":1},"title":"On politicians as people and as demons","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Nov-14 10:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In our era of political demonization, there are only two alternatives: someone is on Our Side, and therefore is wise, witty, funny, and admirable -- or else someone is on Their Side, and therefore is foolish, clumsy, annoying, and reprehensible.Which is clearly a false dichotomy, because not only is there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":47925,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/on-the-net-neutrality-political-debate.html","url_meta":{"origin":47922,"position":2},"title":"On the Net Neutrality political debate","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Nov-14 7:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"To be fair, it's not clear to me that this is strictly a partisan issue. Plenty of Dems are in bed with major corporate players here, too. 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