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> What is your evidence? I cited mine above.

My evidence is the congressional record which indicates republican politicians overwhelmingly oppose NN and democratic politicians overwhelmingly support it.

I wouldn't regard a single post on a subreddit as evidence; it is at best an anecdote, and one of dubious credibility IMO.



> congressional record

Politicians do what their constituents want now? That's new.

> I wouldn't regard a single post on a subreddit as evidence

Visit [1]. See the spike in the graph? That is the link I posted above. It is not anecdotal. As I said, this is the most upvoted comment ever removed from that sub.

[1] https://revddit.com/r/the_donald


An overly-censored troll subreddit [1] is far from being evidence of anything, much less voting stances for bipartisan politics in legislature. In fact, any subreddit for that matter is not a good indicator.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-...


The popularity of the topic and its censorship is evidence that the powers-that-be will put down NN wherever they have a chance.

What would you use as proxy? r/conservative? They support NN too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/6mtvln/net_ne...


https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/search/?q=net%20neutrali...

So is that anecdotal or QED proof that republicans hate net neutrality?


Comments/posts of little substance are evidence of manufactured propaganda.

A highly upvoted informed view, on the other hand, that gets removed, is evidence of censorship by those in charge.


Sounds to me like you're just disregarding anything that doesn't fit your narrative of "both sides support NN". A bunch of subreddit posts are not evidence of anything except the trends of a reddit bubble, however, if you're using subreddit posts to justify your position, I don't understand how you can cherry-pick a single post as evidence, but reject an entire page of posts as "manufactured propaganda". I don't think you're posting in good faith, so at this point I am going to stop the conversation on my side.


I shared aggregated statistics calculated across a whole subreddit's history to make my point. That is a fair basis for discussion.


You cherry picked a deleted comment from a troll subreddit to act as an indicator of the entire Republican party stance on Net Neutrality.


> You cherry picked a deleted comment from a troll subreddit

No, as I showed, that post is the most upvoted removed comment in the sub's history.

If you think t_d has no influence over the republican party, you do you. This is my last comment in this thread.


> Politicians do what their constituents want now? That's new.

Clearly there is a strong correlation between political identity and the politicians that are elected to represent those identities since democrats overwhelmingly vote for candidates that support NN and republicans overwhelmingly vote for candidates that oppose it. This is pretty simple to verify based on the congressional voting record, the machinations of subreddit shit-posting is wholly irrelevant.


Net neutrality is not what most people are voting on.




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