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Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

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Re: Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

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Post by chipperyman573 »

alexkavon wrote: post #10
Animats wrote: post #3

Montana. Now that's an unexpected source for business regulation.

Why do you say this? I ask because, I am from Montana and I often find outside knowledge of Montana consists of "they have an unlimited speed on the highway/interstate" (which hasn't been true for quite sometime) mindset applied to any information about Montana. It is usually viewed as a red state, but it's a different kind of red than what you find on the coasts. Our governor is blue and our state was essentially fo…

Not OP but I had the same thought as them. I know I was expecting the first state to be WA or CA, or some other heavily/known blue state, not a (somewhat random) midwestern state. If I were to research it further I'm sure it wouldn't come as much of a surprise, but my initial and uneducated reaction was shock.

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Post by gonehome »

alexkavon wrote: post #10
Animats wrote: post #3

Montana. Now that's an unexpected source for business regulation.

Why do you say this? I ask because, I am from Montana and I often find outside knowledge of Montana consists of "they have an unlimited speed on the highway/interstate" (which hasn't been true for quite sometime) mindset applied to any information about Montana. It is usually viewed as a red state, but it's a different kind of red than what you find on the coasts. Our governor is blue and our state was essentially fo…

When I think of Montana politics the first thing I remember is this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/2...

For better or worse this makes me think of Montana as a pretty red state unlikely to pass regulation like NN.

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Post by RainaRelanah »

badrequest wrote: post #5

Good for them. Hopefully Texas will fo-lol I can't even finish that sentence.

Reading Cruz's tweets on net neutrality invokes a special type of enragement[0]. It is downright offensive how he treats his constituents, especially us lucky folks in the "People's Republic of Austin".

0. https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/941489723901665280?lang=e...

Re: Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

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Post by vec »

moduspol wrote: post #8

Another executive order... and this one only affecting ISPs wanting a contract with the state government. Is that really the best that can be done?

If you're the Governor of Montana, it probably is the best that can be done.

It's not a lot by itself, of course, but I'm not going to begrudge local and state officials from exercising what powers they do have to try and make the situation a bit better.

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Post by chimeracoder »

shagie wrote: post #9
Animats wrote: post #3

Montana. Now that's an unexpected source for business regulation.

Montana has had bad experiences with a lack of regulation in the past. Montana was also the state with corporate political donations limits that went up against Citizens United.

> Montana was also the state with corporate political donations limits that went up against Citizens United.

This is incorrect. Corporations are not allowed to donate to political campaigns, and that's been illegal throughout the US for a very, very long time.

Individuals (like you and me) who are unaffiliated with political campaigns are allowed to make political statements. And we're allowed to spend money to make those statements, as long as we don't coordinate with campaigns at any point. Citizens United ruled that individuals retain this right when they band together in groups to make political statements (again, as long as that group of people remains unaffiliated with political campaigns and does not coordinate with them in any way).

Montana tried to argue that this law didn't apply to state and local elections, but they were struck down, because... well, it was a particularly weak argument for them to make in the first place, from a legal perspective.

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Post by Scooty »

alexkavon wrote: post #10
Animats wrote: post #3

Montana. Now that's an unexpected source for business regulation.

Why do you say this? I ask because, I am from Montana and I often find outside knowledge of Montana consists of "they have an unlimited speed on the highway/interstate" (which hasn't been true for quite sometime) mindset applied to any information about Montana. It is usually viewed as a red state, but it's a different kind of red than what you find on the coasts. Our governor is blue and our state was essentially fo…

When I think of Montana, I think of the Russian guy that just wanted to raise rabbits with a round American woman in Montana from "The Hunt for the Red October".

Re: Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

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Post by NegativeK »

alexkavon wrote: post #10
Animats wrote: post #3

Montana. Now that's an unexpected source for business regulation.

Why do you say this? I ask because, I am from Montana and I often find outside knowledge of Montana consists of "they have an unlimited speed on the highway/interstate" (which hasn't been true for quite sometime) mindset applied to any information about Montana. It is usually viewed as a red state, but it's a different kind of red than what you find on the coasts. Our governor is blue and our state was essentially fo…

I generally assume that Democrats are more concentrated in cities, which generalizes to states with high rural population percentages being Republican.
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