It’s not surprising to see Ted Cruz finding new enemies. Even everyone in his party hates him.
But Mark Hamill?? The star of the number one movie in the country? LUKE FREAKIN’ SKYWALKER HIMSELF??
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Yep. It’s just the latest crazy celebrity feud brought us by social media.
It all started when the Star Wars: The Last Jedi star gave FCC chair Ajit Pai a Twitter lashing for his insanely patronizing video calming everyone’s fears about the repeal of net neutrality (which happened to feature a cameo by a right wing pizzagate conspiracy theorist, btw):
Cute video Ajit “Aren’t I Precious?” Pai ├░┼╕┬ñ┬«-but you are profoundly unworthy 2 wield a lightsaber-A Jedi acts selflessly for the common man-NOT lie 2 enrich giant corporations. Btw-did you pay John Williams his royalty? @AjitPaiFCCorpShill #AJediYouAreNOT pic.twitter.com/SpIcOEySUY
— @HamillHimself (@HamillHimself) December 16, 2017
That’s when Cruz decided he’d step in to try to school the Jedi master:
.@HammillHimself Luke, I know Hollywood can be confusing, but it was Vader who supported govt power over everything said & done on the Internet. That’s why giant corps (Google, Facebook, Netflix) supported the FCC power grab of net neutrality. Reject the dark side: Free the net! https://t.co/nARkMvIEYk
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 17, 2017
In any case, this is a completely spurious argument.
Google and Facebook and Netflix don’t own the bandwidth, they rely on the bandwidth. Like the American people, they will subject to the whims of the corporations that DO control the networks — namely Verizon and AT&T.
It’s like allowing a lumber company to have a monopoly, then saying “Hey, the companies that make pencils, toothpicks, and little wooden trains are against it, it must be bad for corporations!” Um, not for the lumber company!
Anyway, Mark went a funnier way with his response!
Thanks for smarm-spaining it to me @tedcruz I know politics can be confusing, but you’d have more credibility if you spelled my name correctly. I mean IT’S RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU! Maybe you’re just distracted from watching porn at the office again├ó┬¥┬ñ├»┬╕┬Å-mh https://t.co/nHpJVG1Wpe
— @HamillHimself (@HamillHimself) December 17, 2017
Yes, that’s it. So sorry to misspell your name. Respond not with facts, but with anger. Who was it that said, “Fear is the path to the dark side├óΓé¼┬ªfear leads to anger├óΓé¼┬ªanger leads to hate”? (1/2) https://t.co/uwMMzgKC1R
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 17, 2017
(2/2) Rather than insults, try civil discussion of facts. Fact 1: until 2015, the FCC had NO authority over Internet. The Net grew free & unregulated. Fact 2: W/ “net neutrality” the FCC declared power to regulate everything said & done on Internet. That’s really bad for freedom. https://t.co/uwMMzgKC1R
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 17, 2017
Wow, he’s wrong again. The FCC has been enforcing some form of net neutrality since around 2003, by fining bigger companies for “throttling” the net speed of smaller ones.
Before that, the technology (“deep packet inspection”) didn’t even exist to limit certain data over others.
In other words, since net neutrality was in danger, the FCC has been trying to protect it. Until Donald Trump and Ajit Pai anyway.
The second “fact” is a complete lie. Net neutrality is actually protecting people from having what they do regulated by huge companies.
Well, at least plenty of people were on Mark’s side. You know, the LIGHT side of the Force:
Much appreciated @BillyBaldwin! Aside from leaving an “L” out of “smarm-spLaining”-my only regret is that 280 characters are just not enough to unpack all the lies & the stupid contained in just one @tedcruz tweet. #CondescendingCruz #MuellerIsOurOnlyHope https://t.co/BH3h3ZlyLm
— @HamillHimself (@HamillHimself) December 18, 2017
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