Net neutrality is dead with a trump presidency

Yeah...all those Congressmen have nothing to do with it. Not a thing.

I guess I should have said: it's dead with a republican controlled government.

Yeah..Why let all those fucking weasels escape judgement.

Also the anti-BDS bill. We're about to lose our freedom of speech.

You're about to be labeled a Nazi. Only Nazis believe in the right to free speech without the threat of violence.

Show me where people who oppose the criminalising of boycotts and protests are called Nazis?

The anti-BDS bill is one of the few legislative efforts which is overwhelmingly opposed by the majority of the left and right. The other example is, funnily enough, anti net neutrality legislation.

Anti Semitic, Nazi, anti Israel. They like to throw these around if you oppose support for israeli genocide and this bill has huge bi partisan support, including the voting lemmings. Our country is whored out to Israel, this bill will pass in one form or another.

The anti-BDS bill has huge bipartisan support in Congress, but not among the voter bases. I'm not sure what the Democrats and Republicans hope to achieve through this. One of the few legislative agendas which has me scratching my head.

That being said, it will pass - and be challenged by a civil liberties organisation like the ACLU, be argued up to the SCOTUS, and struck down as obviously unconstitutional.

The question remains, who are Congress trying to impress? It's an obviously unconstitutional bill and has zero chance of staying on the books for long.

I'm not worried about the anti-BDS bill. It will be found unconstitutional by the SC. Really the only truly negative thing I can see it doing (long term) is cementing in the precedent that "spending/donating money is speech and therefore protected by 1st amendment", which we got from Citizens United.

You should be worried when our congress, while knowing it's unconstitutional, still tries to shove it through. It means they are puppets, and we are not their masters.

Oh I agree.

I've thought about how to prevent this, the only way I can think of is to make the lawmakers (or their campaigns) personally financially responsible for defending the laws they pass in court, but only if the law is ruled unconstitutional.

It could be done after-the-fact so that the govt does the "defending" initially and only after it has been ruled unconstitutional does the government go after the lawmakers for their law.

It's a difficult problem to solve.

We have no civil liberties because our Constitution was usurped by a new version after the Civil War.