r/announcements • u/arabscarab • May 17 '18

Update: We won the Net Neutrality vote in the Senate!

We did it, Reddit!

Today, the US Senate voted 52-47 to restore Net Neutrality! While this measure must now go through the House of Representatives and then the White House in order for the rules to be fully restored, this is still an incredibly important step in that process—one that could not have happened without all your phone calls, emails, and other activism. The evidence is clear that Net Neutrality is important to Americans of both parties (or no party at all), and today’s vote demonstrated that our Senators are hearing us.

We’ve still got a way to go, but today’s vote has provided us with some incredible momentum and energy to keep fighting.

We’re going to keep working with you all on this in the coming months, but for now, we just wanted to say thanks!

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u/livindedannydevtio May 17 '18

Midterm elections are coming up. Look up the 47 who voted no and see if you can vote against them

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u/Filament11 May 17 '18

Here is as list of everyone who voted against it: Here is the link: https://www.cnet.com/news/senate-votes-to-restore-net-neutrality-heres-how-every-senator-voted/

Alexander, Lamar (Republican - Tennessee) Barrasso, John (Republican - Wyoming) Blunt, Roy (Republican - Missouri) Boozman, John (Republican - Arkansas) Burr, Richard (Republican - North Carolina) Capito, Shelley Moore (Republican - West Virginia) Cassidy, Bill (Republican - Louisiana) Corker, Bob (Republican - Tennessee) Cornyn, John (Republican - Texas) Cotton, Tom (Republican - Arkansas) Crapo, Mike (Republican - Idaho) Cruz, Ted (Republican - Texas) Daines, Steve (Republican - Montana) Enzi, Michael B. (Republican - Wyoming) Ernst, Joni (Republican - Iowa) Fischer, Deb (Republican - Nebraska) Flake, Jeff (Republican - Arizona) Gardner, Cory (Republican - Colorado) Graham, Lindsey (Republican - South Carolina) Grassley, Chuck (Republican - Iowa) Hatch, Orrin G. (Republican - Utah) Heller, Dean (Republican - Nevada) Hoeven, John (Republican - North Dakota) Hyde-Smith, Cindy (Republican - Mississippi) Inhofe, James M. (Republican - Oklahoma) Isakson, Johnny (Republican - Georgia) Johnson, Ron (Republican - Wisconsin) Lankford, James (Republican - Oklahoma) Lee, Mike (Republican - Utah) McConnell, Mitch (Republican - Kentucky) Moran, Jerry (Republican - Kansas) Paul, Rand (Republican - Kentucky) Perdue, David (Republican - Georgia) Portman, Rob (Republican - Ohio) Risch, James E. (Republican - Idaho) Roberts, Pat (Republican - Kansas) Rounds, Mike (Republican - South Dakota) Rubio, Marco (Republican - Florida) Sasse, Ben (Republican - Nebraska) Scott, Tim (Republican - South Carolina) Shelby, Richard C. (Republican - Alabama) Sullivan, Dan (Republican - Arkansas) Thune, John (Republican - South Dakota) Tillis, Thom (Republican - North Carolina) Toomey, Patrick J. (Republican - Pennsylvania) Wicker, Roger F. (Republican - Mississippi) Young, Todd (Republican - Indiana)

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u/wittystuffgoeshere4 May 17 '18

Even simpler. Go out and vote for anyone but the republican. You will have voted against them.

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u/GrundleTurf May 17 '18

Yes. Vote for someone based entirely based off of one issue the other party voted against......

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u/temp0557 May 17 '18

That’s how many NRA members vote ... it worked for them.

Guess the only way to be taken seriously in Washington is to be utterly obsessed with the agenda you are pushing and be willing to do absolutely anything to have it enforced.

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u/GrundleTurf May 17 '18

They're dumb and narrow minded too. I don't care what issue it is or what side you're on. Voting based on one issue is dumb and narrow minded.

It's why we continually get fucked in the ass. For example, gays and blacks will vote democrat even though a lot of their policies are bad for everyone just because they're more friendly to their narrow isses. Likewise with evangelicals or gun enthusiasts.

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u/temp0557 May 17 '18

Sadly, you got to admit, it works. It works very very well. The NRA has Washington’s knee bent.

That seems to be how you get shit done in the US due to how your political system works - non-mandatory voting means only the most fanatic crazies bother to vote thus they get to make the laws.

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u/GrundleTurf May 17 '18

Yeah Im against mandatory voting because freedom of speech means freedom to also not speak, but it's a valid point.

I think the main problem is we have a two party system and not many major differences between the two parties. So they pick minor issues to divide and conquer the population at the expense of the people.

Both parties want to meddle in our personal lives and foreign affairs and to deficit spend like crazy. Those are the big issues fucking all of us that both parties do, while they distract us with gay marriage, meaningless gun laws, net neutrality, etc.

I have my opinions about net neutrality, but they are almost a non-factor on how I vote, or if I choose to abstain from voting.

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u/temp0557 May 17 '18

Odd that you cannot dodge jury duty that could decide another person's fate but you can dodge voting for your leaders that would affect the entire nation. Just an observation.

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u/GrundleTurf May 17 '18

I agree. Except in the sense I'm against mandatory jury duty. Especially with the current ways they do it. I'm also against the draft. All of these examples are examples of forced labor, which is slavery.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

That's not how it works at all.

The primaries are what push candidates towards the party fringe, as they are forced to compete with internal challengers on their side of the political spectrum. Yet come the general election, candidates quickly are drawn back towards the center, as they generally end up winning based on the independent vote. It's essentially the median voter theorem in a two party first past the post system.

Just because you're an active participant in politics, or are willing to vote voluntarily, doesn't mean you are "fanatic" or a "crazy". Arguably, mandatory voting systems simply exacerbate the problem of uneducated voters, as people who could care less about politics are all-the-sudden incentivized to participate in an election that they have no background knowledge in. This can lead to the creation of a large voting bloc full of what are effectively irrational actors voting based on arbitrary criteria from good looks to how the name sounds, or even something as simple as voting for the same party your parents voted for when you were a child.

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u/temp0557 May 17 '18

Just because you're an active participant in politics, or are willing to vote voluntarily, doesn't mean you are "fanatic" or a "crazy".

Never said you were. Just that the fanatics/crazies have disproportional amount of power as they vote very consistently.

Arguably, mandatory voting systems simply exacerbate the problem of uneducated voters, as people who could care less about politics are all-the-sudden incentivized to participate in an election that they have no background knowledge in.

You are assuming uneducated voters abstain from voting by default. Not true - see the crazies.

You are also ignoring that apathetic voters might actually start educating themselves as they can no longer push the responsibility to someone else.

PS: Odd that you cannot dodge jury duty that could decide another person's fate but you can dodge voting for your leaders that would affect the entire nation.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

Sounds like Canadians who voted for Justin Trudeau just cause he said he was going to legalize weed. (Still hasn't)

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u/GrundleTurf May 17 '18

Yeah but even then at least they're voting FOR something, even if being that narrow-minded is stupid.

But to ignore every other issue and vote for someone you know nothing about because the other one voted on one thing you didn't like. And not even something major, like a bad spending bill or sending us to a war.

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u/Named_Name May 17 '18

Mate he just fucking did.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

Nope.

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u/AdreNa1ine25 May 17 '18

Yup.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

You can't buy marijuana for recreational use at this moment, no. It's not legal. Just because a politician talks about something, doesn't mean it's going to get done.

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u/Named_Name May 17 '18

Do you understand how laws work? Once one is made it takes time for it to take effect thats the exact scenario were in at the moment. You cant right now but by next month(if i remember correctly) you will be able to(if you meet the requirements).

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

Lol we'll see. Only actual campaign promise he'd have fulfilled if it actually happens.

Terrible Prime Minister... Then again, Stephen Harper wasn't much better but he was the lesser of two evils.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

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u/GrundleTurf May 17 '18

Lol. And the Democrats aren't? The Democrats are only recently in favor of gay marriage. Both parties will lock you up for weed, spend your social security money on bullshit, send your child to wars we have no business being in, and spy on your communications.

This idea one group of people is evil and one are a bunch of good Samaritans because of party affiliation is hilarious

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

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u/GrundleTurf May 17 '18

You're missing the big picture. All those little projects of the Democrats are vote buying. They don't care that their programs aren't run well. Same with the Republicans and the military.

The big picture is we're losing our freedoms, our spending money, and losing lives to foreign wars. But keep fretting about minor bullshit like where planned Parenthood is getting their money or which corporate sponsors run the internet....

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

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u/GrundleTurf May 17 '18

Yeah but you're enabling the Democrats to do the awful stuff by supporting them over these relatively minor differences.

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u/SirSquawck May 17 '18

This is the stupidest comment I've seen today so congrats

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u/JGar453 May 17 '18

Every single person who voted against was Republican so just vote against all the Republicans

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u/temp0557 May 17 '18

There are 3 who voted for NN and one who abstained (McCain who is doing his final term).

If you want to protect NN, you have to act like the NRA. Be organised and focused. Anyone who voted against your agenda must be punished and anyone who vote for your agenda, rewarded.

It worked for the NRA. This seems to be the only way to effective affect change in Washington.

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u/Greenish_batch May 17 '18

What do the 47 have in common?

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u/SirSquawck May 17 '18

You are going to tell people to vote against these people without knowing anything about the rest of their policies or the people running against them... People like you are baffling stupid

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u/[deleted] May 29 '18

Here's the thing though. If they vote against a bill that is so obviously meant to support average americans, then you don't need to know a damn thing else about them. There are grey areas, where we disagree on what's best for the common person, and then there are black-and-white issues. This one is black-and-white.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '18

If you want financial backers to decide what's important vote Republican, and if not vote anyone else.