Yeah. This (the OP) is the first post on the platform that isn't a spammy comment that I've considered downvoting for being so utterly inaccurate, and so dangerous to unimpeded access to information on the internet. I wish I had more SP to upvote your post more.
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The post does, however, do a rather nice job pointing out the hypocrisy and lack of critical thought of many of the libertarian belief system's cheerleaders, especially those who have long ago given up thinking for themselves and have found safety from scientific and intellectual exertion in a group of fellow uncritical cultists. This is not necessarily an indictment of libertarianism, just of many of its followers.
It is the idealogues who fall back on catch phrases and generalities devoid of fact. You can lay out a detailed reason why Ine neutrality is good and how we will be harmed; paintstakingly list public statments made by ISP executives, point out that Ajit Pai is motivated by his return to the private sector as an executive probably at Verizon, how he abused the comment period, and yadda yadda yadda. Doesn't mean anything becasue they just say "But we don't want the gevernment regulatng nad censoring the Internet. These guys can't get out from beneath their slogans.
I am just amazed at the disingenuous, cynical, bull sh*t that has been peddled by the Alit Pai's of the country. It was strange for me to join Steemit and see so many people in support of getting rid of net neutrality and how misinformed they are. Of course FaceBook, Quora, and the blogosphere seems to be overwhelmingly in support of net neutrality. The only group that appears to have whole heartedly taken up the ISPs' cause is the libertarians. But between the lack of intellectual rigor and their perceptions and belief structures being so divorced from the facts, it is hard to stomach the vast majority of their posts.
There's a pretty big anarcho-capitalist community here. It's not surprising really given the cyptocurrency model/ethic. But there's also a reasonable level of social libertarian and social democratic voices here, so it gives me something else to read when I get sick of the AC bollocks.