Ted Cruz Digs Heels Into Opposition To FCC Net Regulations

[Webster]

...you know, the more I read this, the more I have to admit that I'm starting to think Ted Cruz isn't the blithering idiot that people - myself included, I'm sad to say - have made him out to be...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) last week compared net neutrality to Obamacare after President Obama announced his support for regulations to maintain net neutrality. In a Thursday op-ed for the Washington Post, Cruz painted rules that would keep Internet providers from offering two different speeds of service to websites as oppressive regulations. "Government-regulated utilities invariably destroy innovation and freedom," he wrote.

On Sunday, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) called Cruz out and explained that net neutrality "is about reclassifying something so it stays the same." He said that the regulations would not keep companies from innovating. "He has it completely wrong and he just doesn't understand what this issue is," Franken said about Cruz.

But on Monday, Cruz continued to harp on net neutrality.

He joined Vine to tell people, #DontMessWithTheNet, and put together a video response to Franken.

The video includes Franken's Sunday comments, followed by a clip from a speech Cruz gave on Friday in Austin. Cruz said that government regulation "calcifies everything." "The innovation is happening without having to go to government regulators and say, 'Mother, may I?'" he said, arguing that net neutrality would inhibit innovation.(Talking Points Memo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pSRD9__8kpQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_oRoG8SqChE

 

[Dee]

Ted Cruz is a complete and utter moron and should be slapped across the face several times. This man either has no idea what he's talking about, or he knows exactly what he's talking about and he is campaigning for the people funding him to spew this kind of horse shit.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

These videos show Ted Cruz is one of the smartest men around. He clearly understands freedom for the people. And he understands if communist like obama gets control to regulate the Internet opinions like Ted Cruz opinion above can be scrubbed. Articles and blogs we like to share will disappear.

 

[Webster]

These videos show Ted Cruz is one of the smartest men around. He clearly understands freedom for the people. And he understands if communist like obama gets control to regulate the Internet opinions like Ted Cruz opinion above can be scrubbed. Articles and blogs we like to share will disappear.

The thing that gets me, Liberty, is the more that people take the time to listen to the man - and it is still a bit weird for me to say this, considering how much I slagged on Cruz as of late - he's actually a pretty smart fellow.