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> By "properly", you mean "agreeing with me", right?

I mean in the interests of their constituents.

> You implying everybody that has technical knowledge supports NN, and only reason to oppose it is ignorance. This is wrong and incredibly condescending.

I imply nothing of the sort, but the majority of people certainly favour NN.

> Yes it does. Why would we need any Congress at all then? We could replace them with a cheap one cent coin and save a lot of money and drama. [...] If it's just random, there's no point of wasting effort on it, we can do much better random much cheaper.

Except it's not random, as I explained.




> I mean in the interests of their constituents.

Constituents have different interests. Sometimes diametrically different.

> but the majority of people certainly favour NN.

The majority of the people favor a vague description of NN in the form of "do you want to access sites for free". The majority of the people has no opinion about the specific NN regulations being discussed since they don't have a slightest idea what these regulations are and how they work and what exactly changed in 2015 and 2018. It's fine to favor this specific regulation, but claiming "the majority supports it" as an argument is bullshit, the majority has no idea what it is about. It's like asking people "would you like to be murdered?" and presenting the results as support for specific crime reform or gun control proposal. This can't be taken seriously.

> Except it's not random, as I explained.

You "explained" that everybody who has technical knowledge would support NN, if only those pesky lobbyists didn't meddle. It is an unsupported statement based on fallacious premises and so far the only factual support is the abovementioned unserious polls. Not enough by far.


> The majority of the people favor a vague description of NN in the form of "do you want to access sites for free".

Please point to all the polls or surveys that framed the question this way.

> The majority of the people has no opinion about the specific NN regulations being discussed since they don't have a slightest idea what these regulations are and how they work and what exactly changed in 2015 and 2018.

And the same can be said for our elected representatives who, on the whole, are just as technologically illiterate as these other citizens you seem to disdain so much.

> You "explained" that everybody who has technical knowledge would support NN

Really? Please quote the exact text where I made that claim.

Furthermore, that explanation is completely immaterial to the point I was responding to, which was about your claim of randomized bill voting. I suggest you reread this thread.




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