Burger King's BRILLIANT New Ad Teaches Important Lesson

Lmao internet access as a "right". What's next, oral sex as a right?

How about Nike's as a right? That should be in the constitution.

I demand the right for everyone to have a swimming pool be amended to the Constitution.

What a bunch of lunatics.

 

What???

 

heady stuff.

 

Governments never have enough money just ask them.

You do realize milk is a horrible example right?

 

All that milk in the stores is going to go sour at $30, until the price gets down to where milk is demanded again. The government isn't needed to step in.

You can eat Wheaties or Fruit Loops with just water or dry in a pinch.

 

Bad Ad. Doesn't connect without an explanation. What was their objective?

 

I don't need it to be seen as a right. I only need to decide that it is good public policy to promote maximum access to the world wide web because it promotes the exchange of valuable information and is the least expensive system of public education on the planet. Once I conclude there is a public interest served in promoting internet access, just as once upon a time we as a nation decided that even rural America needed roads, electricity, clean safe water and telephone access, we will write statutes at the federal and state level to promote that national interest. One of those statutes we can call 'net neutrality'.

See, we did not need to call roads, electricity, telephone access and clean water a 'right' to get the job done either. we just called them 'good ideas'

 

Good points again, but people - tens of millions - are MUCH more internet dependent than you may realize, from home businesses (as you mentioned), to older people, to the disabled, students & all manner of everyday types who perform all kinds of activities online.

A good example of this last is online banking, bill payment and even leasing - I understand that many landlords ONLY operate online now!

But other than this gap, I think we're pretty much on the same page.

 

I don't think it is, as one of us is SERIOUSLY in the weeds.

 

^ Thread win.

 

Cheap/free internet access is a valid public need.

 

^ Still missing the point...

 

It is lunacy to deny people access to free/cheap internet, yes.

 

Substitute essential nutritional element/s needed for children's health/growth, and benefiting ALL of society as you see fit.

 

See above; not being malnourished is kinda important; dirt cookies don't cut it.

 

Translation: I don't want to work but give me free stuff.

 

Lolz at artificial black and white guys snatching bags, as per lefty propaganda.

Give us what we want, or we will be violent.

Have it your way.

 

Chop-chop!

 

There is no free market in Milk. It is strictly controlled by the government.

 

So, you have no problem with your ISP deciding what you can - and cannot - access/view/use on the internet?

 

Umm...... a right? Seriously? So, let us just assume then, that your analogy of the interstate highway system is your model. Ok, why would you enforce speed limits? If everyone has to have use of it, it is a right, as you assert, are you not assuming ownership or nationalizing the investments of so many of us who have funded both the build out of the internet and it's content?

I think that everyone should have access to a high quality Thai restaurant. I doubt that you'd believe that to be a priority for nationalization though.

 

It's already included with your cell service. If you need it for your other devices enable a hot spot, added cost for faster transfers rates is hardly new, they already exist presently.. Free is jus another liberal mantra we have all come to realize, what about free electricity for the poor leftist that use a desktop to access the itrawebz, oh the humanity!

 

It cuts into the ability to spend on other millennial necessities like hair product and skinny jeans... And durn it all, why aren't those free to? They used to be back when they lived with mom and dad....

 

What gets me is people are so uninformed that they are pissing and moaning about something already being done My provider has always offered tier'd service and has for well over a decade! Presently I pay right at $50 for 50 meg transfer down 25 up, but "So they claim" sometime in spring the are going to reduce the rate to $40 and up the bandwidth to one gig, I'm skeptical but we'll see

 

I have to go where you’re leading.

Am I wrong that you said that regulation isn’t the problem, and then proceeded to define regulation as the problem? You realize that when you complain about big companies owning the government what you’re complaining about is regulation, right?

And what the Mercedes example describes is exactly the same as paying long distance for a telephone call. It doesn’t matter how much you paid for your telephone (computer) ATT (carrier) would charge you extra to make a call to areas outside of a specific region. Now that practice is mostly a thing of the past, and why? What hand did the government have in forcing it’s monopoly buddy ATT into stopping the practice of charging extra for long distance calls? Very little. Ironically it was competition from the wired digital network that drove the analog network to reduce its prices. Now it’s competition from wireless networks that causes the wired digital networks to react.

But even with that competition business are going to work together to find ways to be productive. That doesn’t mean you should have the government step in to stop them. That’s how innovation works. For example, I have an Amazon fire TV. Amazon just recently blocked the Youtube app from its devices. I don’t need the government to step in to force Amazon to allow me access to the Youtube app, just like I don’t need them to step in to force BK to serve Pepsi, or to force ATT to allow me to call Puerto Rico without a long distance charge.