Net Neutrality Is Dead (Will the World Soon Follow?), Speaker Ryan Denies He's Retiring, FBI Agents' Anti-Trump Text Messages Get Eyeballed: P.M. Links
-
Net Neutrality is dead, so I have no idea how you're able to read these links or how I was able to post them because this was supposed to kill off the internet.
- House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is denying reports that he's considering retiring from Congress.
- Republican members of the Senate are looking for some answers about anti-Trump text messages from FBI officials, including one who was involved in the investigation of ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. One particular text suggests that the agents should take some sort of undefined action if Trump were to get elected, so it's about more than just government employees preferring Hillary Clinton as president. Here's a take from Stewart Baker at The Volokh Conspiracy.
- Bermuda is reinstituting its ban on legal recognition of same-sex marriage, overturning a court ruling from earlier in the year.
- The publisher of The New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., is handing the reins over to his 37-year-old son, AG Sulzberger.
- San Diego prosecutors are returning $290,000 they seized from a marijuana business owner last year.
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for Reason's daily updates for more content.
Editor's Note: As of February 29, 2024, commenting privileges on reason.com posts are limited to Reason Plus subscribers. Past commenters are grandfathered in for a temporary period. Subscribe here to preserve your ability to comment. Your Reason Plus subscription also gives you an ad-free version of reason.com, along with full access to the digital edition and archives of Reason magazine. We request that comments be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment and ban commenters for any reason at any time. Comments may only be edited within 5 minutes of posting. Report abuses.
Please
to post comments
Hello.
Net neutrality is dead, we’re doing nothing about climate change, sexual assaults are running rampant…
I’m gonna need a bigger Linus blanket.
Woo hoo thanks Rufus. How are we communicating right now without the interwebz?
It’s all telepathic.
LIKE AQUAMAN.
{{{sends Rufus poutine signal}}}
Poutine signal = an image of blood slowing down
Latest scandal: internet commentariats discovered molesting fish.
The science guy?
^^^ Someone got it. It’s science dude, we don’t know science.
[crickets]
*chirps*
Scott knows where to prelink…
[stridulates penis against leg]
San Diego prosecutors are returning $290,000 they seized from a marijuana business owner last year.
Interest?
I have lost it.
Bermuda is reinstituting its ban on legal recognition of same-sex marriage, overturning a court ruling from earlier in the year.
…well you can cross THAT location off the Beach Boys list.
Kokomo is still okay, though.
The only Kokomo that matters.
Why do you keep changing your last name?
Why does a dog lick himself?
‘Cos Weigel was too busy Christmas shopping …
San Diego prosecutors are returning $290,000 they seized from a marijuana business owner last year.
They’re returning it in pennies, which they’ve rubbed all over their junk.
That seems like it would take a while.
Why rush things?
It took a year.
Well, that would explain the patina…
Joke’s on them, those were all ass pennies.
Net Neutrality is dead, so I have no idea how you’re able to read these links or how I was able to post them because this was supposed to kill off the internet.
But you do notice how all of the sudden the pro-neutrality voices were silenced today.
Couldn’t get their laptops to read their credit cards.
Net Neutrality Is Dead (Will the World Soon Follow?)
It was already going to die because of the tax bill. This is just a “to be sure” thing.
I knew Robby was to blame for this somehow.
…so it’s about more than just government employees preferring Hillary Clinton as president.
From what I hear, that certainly doesn’t include the Secret Service agents assigned to her detail.
In honor of Net Neutrality neutering I give you freakiness
The national treasure that is Iowahawk on the end of Net Neutrality.
If Net Neutrality is repealed:
? the internet will cost $879.95 per day
? Millions will lose their lives
? Displaced internet hobos will aimlessly ride freightcars around the barren American wasteland
? Stealing pies from our window sills
If Net Neutrality is repealed:
? Twitter will begin charging to tweet
? Fewer people will be on Twitter
? Twitter will go away
? I forgot where I was going with this
http://twitter.com/iowahawkblo…..6709443584
And this
Before forming an opinion on Net Neutrality, it’s probably best to read the latest studies from the Journal of Hysterical Facebook Infographics
The Journal of Hysterical Facebook Infographics, I am so stealing that.
And his best buddy just became a Federal Judge. Now all we need is another close election and things are in place for Willetts to declare Iowahawk President.
Huh, and now Iowahawk’s twitter reminded me that IMAO exists. Haven’t read that since I was a kid.
Also, s’up John. Thought you left us again.
Just been busy. Lots of drama you wouldn’t want to hear about. But thanks for remembering me.
I missed you
Stop drinking.
I always knew you were gay.
You? Drama?
You don’t say!
Nothing interesting or scandalous. Just a family illness.
Oh. Hope everyone is doing better. If not, I wish your family member a quick and painless recovery.
Thank you. It is not great, but such is life.
No, we definitely want to read about your drama.
What was it? The girl you were dating turned out to be a Hipsterella? DHS audited browser history? The Glibs re-invited you and then re-banned you?
Freakin’ Glibs.
…ok if I wasn’t at work right now I would be creating that group just for giggles. Or is it actually already a thing?
Net Neutrality is dead, so I have no idea how you’re able to read these links or how I was able to post them because this was supposed to kill off the internet.
According to snippets I heard on NPR, we are the ones who are going to be killed
They read it in the Journal of Hysterical Facebook Infographics’ article Iowahawk references above. So, it must be true.
You weren’t kidding about stealing that.
One particular text suggests that the agents should take some sort of undefined action if Trump were to get elected…
Move to Canada?
[snaps fingers]
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is denying reports that he’s considering retiring from Congress.
He’s just one impeachment and one heartbeat away from the presidency!
He is one successful impeachment and one heartbeat away from the presidency. Big difference.
One heart attack and one angry wife away. That’s an easier route.
Not with Pence’s policy on dealing with female co-workers.
Bermuda is reinstituting its ban on legal recognition of same-sex marriage, overturning a court ruling from earlier in the year.
Luckily all those gays who got married are already divorced.
They can’t get married because the gays done destroyed marriage itself.
I wonder how many gays there actually are in Bermuda. Isn’t the population like 65,000? Let’s say 2% are gay. That is 1,300 people. Holly shit, that is still quite a lot of people.
Although from another angle, the more gay people there are in Bermuda the fewer future people there will be in Bermuda.
HA!
You forget Gay Bermudese Russian Adoptions.
D’oh!
You got me there! Although I always sort of thought that was one of the benefits of being gay in that you didn’t have to deal with children. That shouldn’t stop one from choosing to inflict that on yourself and your partner, though, regardless of orientation.
At the very least, I’d say that that the rate of gay adoptions probably will never outpace accidental pregnancies from idiot teens.
Net Neutrality is dead, so I have no idea how you’re able to read these links or how I was able to post them because this was supposed to kill off the internet.
You guys AREN’T TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY
It’s seriously a good thing.
Net Neutrality is dead, so I have no idea how you’re able to read these links or how I was able to post them because this was supposed to kill off the internet.
We’re all operating on the dark web right now thanks to Internet Protocol 274 which kicked in when the main line was cut. Nobody knows how long it will stay in operation for though so enjoy it while you can.
http://www.educationdive.com/n…..ed/513067/
Pro tip; staging fake hate crimes and making Lena Dunham your most famous alumni doesn’t help with your enrollment. Who knew?
I might cry, but only because I’m laughing so hard.
I truly hope that’s the reason.
From the article:
Dive Insight:
Colleges and universities throughout the U.S. are seeing a drop in enrollment in recent years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Enrollment dropped by 4% from 2010 to 2014 in degree-granting institutions, and the agency says that from 2014 to 2025 the number of students under age 25 enrolling in college will jump 13 percent, compared with 18 percent for students 25 or older as the size of high school graduating classes grows smaller.
…
If Oberlin is not faring well, in terms of meeting enrollment goals, this says a lot for fate of the rest of the industry. The budget shortfalls at this top institution underscore the need for institutions of all sizes and missions to more closely examine their revenue streams and find ways to be less reliant on tuition in the face of enrollment declines and a political climate which favors affordability and will be less tolerant of raising tuition to close gaps. ?
This is the difference between preaching evolution and understanding evolution. Generations of college professors taught that birth control and extra years of education were the key to building a better society. Now they are running out of other people’s descendants.
Wait. They aren’t just saying the applications are down? Actual enrollments are down?
Here’s a take from Stewart Baker at The Volokh Conspiracy.
You’re just showing off that he publishes here now.
Whoa. Who are all these weirdos in the comments on that post? I’M UNCOMFORTABLE.
What is “The most common reaction to Crusty?”
Running?
IBS?
Fainting-Goat-like fainting?
It’s weird. And they’re polite. And even when they tell someone to fuck off THEY GIVE AN ENTIRE REASON.
Some sort of madness in there.
I’ll get working on that.
“And even when they tell someone to fuck off THEY GIVE AN ENTIRE REASON.”
Well, for a magazine called “Reason” …
Welcome to Earth-2. Please wipe your feet.
Baker is giving some pretty fucking weak tea there. The tweet said “”I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office [Andy McCabe is the FBI deputy director and married to a Democratic Virginiia State Senate candidate] for that there’s no way he gets elected ? but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40?”
Just what was this plan that was threw out in McCabe’s office? And how exactly was it an insurance policy against Trump winning the election? Without the answer to those questions, there is no way to dismiss this as nothing. Could it be as Baker argues that they are just talking about investigating Trump? Maybe, but even that assumes the investigation is just a political hitjob. If it was a real investigation, the prospect of Trump losing the election would not mean ending it. So, it wouldn’t be an insurance policy against anything. It would be an investigation that would continue no matter what.
All Baker does is just say “there must be an innocent explanation here”. No, there mustn’t be. There may be. But there may not be. Baker is a former fed and is just shilling for the feds here assuring everyone that they should get the benefit of the doubt. No, they shouldn’t. And it is a bit odd for a bunch of self-proclaimed Libertarians to think they should.
Maybe the deep state should figure out how to get rid of Trump for the good of the country. Ever consider that?
Sure, Tony lets let the FBI have a veto over elections. That will work out well. Good god you are a stupid loathsome person. You really are.
But you’re just fine with Russia doing it.
*facepalm*
Amazing. It’s actually possible to have negative credibility.
“Maybe the deep state should figure out how to get rid of Trump for the good of the country. Ever consider that?”
Yeah, scumbag, that’s what we expect from you.
That’s obtuse even by your standards.
Just wanted to see what John would say. He always disappoints!
Devoid of full context, we don’t really know exactly what the text message was supposed to mean or what exactly the “insurance policy” metaphor was supposed to mean.
All I know is when I was a kid there was no Net Neutrality and we didn’t have any internet service at all. You think that was just coincidence?
TV WAS BLACK AND WHITE!
Wow, racist much?
FM RADIO IS SUBVERSIVE!
“All I know is when I was a kid there was no Net Neutrality and we didn’t have any internet service at all. You think that was just coincidence?”
I am so stealing that.
Goddamnit, why won’t reasonable work any more
I know. It’s horrible, broke sometime last night.
Uhh, maybe you didn’t get the Net Neutrality memo.
James Carville once pointed out that every special prosecutor always has to be a Republican. Why? Because, that’s why. Just part of the overarching whiny entitled victimhood shit they have been playing at for decades.
Apparently now the new rule is that every FBI agent has to be a Republican as well. You have to give them this: they are good at the whining. Experts.
Nothing James Carville has said should ever be repeated. *drags $100 bill through hipster slum to pick up Tony’s*
Seriously.
I can always count on you guys to latch onto the least relevant part of any comment.
You make points?
Well, point, at least.
The one on the top of your head?
I am to the faux-hawk what Anna Wintour is to the bob.
I agree you are faux. I see your point.
“I pity the faux!”
Mr. C
Anna “Nuclear” Wintour?
Tony|12.14.17 @ 5:12PM|#
“I can always count on you guys to latch onto the least relevant part of any comment.”
Maybe if you posted something that wasn’t a lie or a pack of innuendo, you might be taken seriously.
Should have ended that with an explanation point.
I remember the days of Obama where I was told by the media that there was a consensus that we never had special prosecutors again.
Until 15 days in to Trump.
Then we needed one right away!
I remember in the days of Obama where I was told by the media that anyone who didn’t accept the results of the 2016 Election was just a partisan hack that cared more about party politics than the well being of the country.
Then Trump got elected.
I agree that it’s silly to expect every FBI agent to have specific partisan loyalties. They are human beings, they are free to believe whatever they wish. I would expect them to act like the professionals that they claim to be.
But it is not enough that the investigation be technically fair, it has to appear fair as well to the public. The whole thing is going to be judged not just in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion.
“Net Neutrality is dead, so I have no idea how you’re able to read these links or how I was able to post them because this was supposed to kill off the internet.”
Just let Britches handle it, Schlakenfrod.
Bermuda is reinstituting its ban on legal recognition of same-sex marriage, overturning a court ruling from earlier in the year.
Whoa, young gay men hardest hit.
NO CARRIER
“Bermuda is reinstituting its ban on legal recognition of same-sex marriage, overturning a court ruling from earlier in the year.”
So they’ve overturned the judicial veto on banning the legality.
In other words, they’re not not not allowing it anymore.