This is such an aggressively stupid comment—in case you’re unfamiliar with the internet, it’s changed over time—made even dumber by how smugly it asserts its ignorance.https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/941489723901665280 …
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Replying to @NGrossman81
In what significant way has the internet changed in the last three years, such that Ted Cruz is being "aggressively stupid"?
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Replying to @JohnRBowling
I'd be happy to answer that. First, video streaming and big data research have both increased substantially over the last three years. But what makes the comment extra stupid is the assumption the regulation was entirely anticipatory...
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Replying to @NGrossman81 @JohnRBowling
As with most regulations, it was at least partially reactive. First signs of a problem appeared in the mid-2000s. Comcast paid $16 million in a class action lawsuit back in 2009...
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Replying to @NGrossman81 @JohnRBowling
Cruz ignored every informed argument--barrier to entry for startups, local monopolistic rents, fragmentation--to take on some hysterical people who don't know what they're talking about, and then patted himself on the back. That's beneath a US Senator. Or at least should be.
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Replying to @NGrossman81
Unfortunately it’s often the hysteria or low hanging rhetoric that have the most purchase in public debate (eg, people who love each other should be allowed to get married). So I think it’s worth responding to that.
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That’s a fair point. I’d rather see hysteria met with reasoned argument, especially from elected officials, rather than smug condescension. But yes, I think you’re right that the hysteria’s prominent enough that there’s value in countering it.
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