Discussion: GOP Rep. On Gutting Internet Privacy Rule: 'Nobody's Got To Use The Internet' (VIDEO)

[hamlet1984]

Wisconsin sure elects a lot of fools.

[anon37557014]

@centralasiaexpat

Hell is between his ears.

Damn, that’s good.

A few months ago someone - I don’t remember their name - wrote the phrase “fractally wrong” and it was one of the strangest and best phrasing I’d read in a very long while.

[castor_troy]

Who needs the internet when there’s a ‘wide-stance’ toilet stall available at your local airport?

-GOP Official ‘Stance’ on Privacy

[bluestatedon]

Let them eat cake???

The full name for this Republican delicacy is Gateau de Merde.

[eggrollian]

I think Ted Stevens’ “series of tubes” comment may have just been outdone.

[theghostofeustacetilley]

DonT neEd inTernEt. You caN seNd emaiL through thE phOne printer Machine.

[ecmiles]

And people keep electing these relics to public office! SMDH

[centralasiaexpat]

Just call collect on WhatsApp.

[hamlet1984]

An apt analogy.

[bluestatedon]

“The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the fourth quarter of 2016, adjusted for seasonal variation, but not for price changes, was $102.7 billion.”

ec_current.pdf

GM’s Q4 revenue was $43.9 billion.

[lastroth]

@bluestatedon

Do we really need indoor plumbing? Our forefathers got along just fine crapping in outhouses, and they didn’t need the internet to keep them entertained while they voided their bowels—that old Sears catalogue served double duty as reading material and wiping material.

Ah back to the good old days of cholera and dysentery, fun times and fond memories.

[bd2999]

The selective memory and understanding of history by the GOP is striking. As it fights to show that regulations hurt things and ignoring that government involvement made it possible.

It also shows a striking stupidity about how the world works. Access to the internet is often critical for numerous reasons. Not everyone may have access but can usually get access at libraries and such (which the GOP seems to like to cut too).

It also demonstrates the hypocrisy of privacy concerns they troll.

[sickneffintired]

@bluestatedon

And in just one of the seemingly endless ironies surrounding the 2016 election, the people who are going to get screwed the most immediately and directly by this action are those who gave Trump some of his largest majorities because he was going to bring back King Coal. Unfortunately, all those who voted for Hillary are getting screwed too.

SMH

To paraphrase Oprah giving away the cars
You get screwed …
…and you get screwed
…and you get screwed
Everybody gets screwed

[lemmitellya]

I’m among the large number of professional artists and illustrators who sell their work online. So, yeah, I’ve gotta use it. (And I must mention that I’ve sold more of my drawings and paintings over the “series of tubes” in 7 years than I have in shows and galleries in the last 50 years.)

What an ignorant a-hole this guy is.

[lastroth]

@sickneffintired

To paraphrase Oprah giving away the carsYou get screwed …and you get screwed …and you get screwed Everybody gets screwed

That’s a lot of screwing for the Family Values crowd, now isn’t it?

[clunkertruck]

[sickneffintired]

@lastroth

That’s a lot of screwing for the Family Values crowd, now isn’t it?

Closet fornicators …all of them

[old_curmudgeon]

And if we stop using the 'net, ll those campaign contributions from people who make money off it will just dry up. Think about that, Doofus.

[mooster]

After trying to figure out what he meant by regulating it at the beginning, I can only assume that he has no idea who developed the internet.

[bankerpup]

Maybe his name was originally No-sense-in-brainer.