Burger King's BRILLIANT New Ad Teaches Important Lesson

Uh, this doesn’t make any sense.

 

Moreover, it is part of the corporate state's efforts to control information available to the public.

 

Besides being wrong about "net neutrality", its a stupid move by BK.

By the way, a few years ago I was at a BK, got a whopper for the 2 dogs in the truck - the dogs would not eat it. I thought it might be because of the mustard onions etc so I washed the meat patty. Dogs still would not eat it.

I have never eaten at a BK (or any fast food place) since.

 

The internet, like health insurance, is not a right.

But good luck convincing the brain-dead socialist masses of that.

 

Who did you think the term corporate state refers to? Ajit Pai's an ex-Verizon exec, that's how this utterly corrupt system works.

 

Sure they do, they need me to worship corporate power and its marriage to a govt that ostensibly answers to the people, and for me to buy into the notion that this is still a society managed "of, by, and for the people". The media has always been about manipulating the perceptual reality of the masses.

 

Burger King’s hypocrisy exposed in two steps.

Step one: Go to Burger King.
Step two: Demand equal access to a Pepsi.

 

The Change.org/BK ad is good, but this analogy is brilliant.

 

I’ll assume you mean drive it wherever I have the ability to drive other $60,000 vehicles. Though I wouldn’t recommend driving it where I can drive my $30,000 truck, where I can drive my $500 dollar kayak, or anywhere in Detroit.

The trouble with your analogy is that I don’t have to buy a Mercedes to use the public roads. I can buy a Ford, or a Chevy, or even a Massarati. The competition between these providers will quickly resolve the service issues you outline. If, however, the town I live in creates regulations that prevent me from purchasing vehicles from other automotive companies, say by only licensing Mercedes vehicles for use on public roads, then Mercedes can make all sorts of policies that are not in the best interest of the customers they serve.

Kinda like how BK only licenses Coke products in their soda machines.

 

American Airlines should try the same tact by providing different prices for different sections of the plane. Then people with economy class tickets can get angry because the first class passengers are allowed to get on the plane first, and drink their champagne whiile those of us in scum class are forced to sit next to the toilet in the back of the plane.

 

Yup.

People believe it's only *their* side that will be impacted (positively or negatively), but part of the current game plan is to diminish/destroy non-mainstream narratives by effectively making it too difficult to access them.

We already see throttling/obscuring of information now due to monetizations that occurred almost two decades ago - the internet was only a level playing field in terms of search results for the blink of an eye - but this will greatly worsen the problem.

Net neutrality and freedom of speech (even as screwed up and monetized as the latter is now in internet contexts) are inextricably linked, and when one is attacked, the other is as well.

This is why the destruction of access to the odious Stromfront site was so serious and chilling, but few were willing to see why this was a VERY bad thing because it wasn't their ox being gored.

Not being gored YET, anyway.

But this is how it always begins...

Find a vulnerable/unpopular group, and take away their right to something while the masses applaud that *those people* lost their rights.

Rinse and repeat.

"Surely you believe that *these people* (alleged extremists of ALL political stripes and/or the "mentally ill" and/or people who use certain drugs and/or people of certain religious/political affiliation and/or *Russians* and/or and/or and/or) don't deserve to vote/own guns/have internet access/etc., right???"

Who would defend the inalienable rights of the indefensible, after all?

This round of frog-boiling began with the attacks on Stormfront, but it's far from over; much non-mainstream news is *fake news* now, and soon enough any news which doesn't praise Big Brother won't exist.

When you attack free speech, you attack freedom.

 

Let them eat dirt cookies I say.

 

And have to pay cold hard cash for the booze you need to drown out the incessant crying of the 2 year old diaper filler in the seat next to you even though the snobs up front get it for free.

 

Don't be a customer

 

Excellent analysis, but Fenton's right as well.

The troubling thing is that the profit motive here is intertwined with a desire to squeeze free speech into an acceptable pro-Big (Gov/Corp) Brother narrative dictated solely by a central authority.

The corporate megaphone was briefly compromised by the internet age, and that's not going to be tolerated any longer.

So if you're *Russian* or *Nazi* or *sexist* or *racist* or *fascist* or *antifascist* or *BernieBro* or *TrumpBot* or just plain *bot* or *whatever* label may be applied to you in order to marginalize you, you're done: mocked, censored, banned.

And both the left AND the right, liberal conservatives AND straight up conservatives alike, do the work of the power state when they support the destruction of free speech and access thereto.

It's ALL the same battle.

 

Yup.

All the same battle.

 

It's BOTH - that's what's so insidious.

 

Yup.

 

No.

They serve what they serve.

You shouldn't have to pay $5 for a 30 second Pepsi, and $2 for a 5 minute one.

That's what's being said.

 

Internet access is limited to one or two companies in most areas, so your analogy fails.

Internet access should be FREE or extremely cheap for everyone.

 

I've seen those first class ticket prices, so I'm more than willing to suffer in the back of the plane.

That BK commercial didn't really make it clear that customers were getting the same burger at a much lower price, so long as they were weren't in a hurry. Hey, I don't mind waiting to save a few bucks.