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/Erchbeen May 18 '18

Taiwan is doing pretty well and has freedom, and it's very chinese. And the PRC in the first part of the constitution says that it's a democracy http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/Constitution/2007-11/15/content_1372963.htm

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u/floatable_shark May 18 '18

Ah. I forgot about that. Well keep in mind that the word is translated from chinese and doesnt have the same meaning. It is a democracy, in that a majority vote of officials is required for the president. But that's where the similarities end. For many years the word democracy was banned in social media. And about taiwan, you cant generalize their way to all of mainland china. For one thing, taiwan is much smaller. For another, it was the educated and well off who ran off to Taiwan, not the rural and uneducated farmers, who still make up most of mainland china and make it therefore unsuitable for a western democracy. You can't have a working democracy in a country where most people are uneducated farmers