Sentences with phrase «neutrality because»

Everyone is demanding net neutrality because they're scared of what might happen, but remember what they say.
But ending net neutrality because one rule out of many is poorly defined is the very picture of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
No doubt her argument that the ban will survive scrutiny is based on some purported need of Quebec to legislate religious neutrality because of its history of church interference in politics and public life, up to the 1960s.
The good news is that we can achieve land - degradation neutrality because more than two billion hectares of land worldwide can be rehabilitated through forest and landscape restoration.
The «Federalist» perspective demands only weak neutrality because it begins with a commitment to the notion of individual rights, to the idea that each individual has both the right to pursue his own conception of the good and the duty to recognize the same right as accruing to other individuals.
That's especially bad when it comes to net neutrality because, of all the issues under the regulator's purview, it may very well be the most important.
«This «split the baby» approach fails to accomplish one of the critical requirements of net neutrality because it allows paid prioritization,» says David Pashman, general counsel for Meetup, a startup that provides a network for local groups to gather.

Not exact matches

The service is available in several other countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, but India hasn't been receptive to it because of concerns over net neutrality and Facebook's control over the content that can be freely accessed.
Democrats tried on multiple occasions to enforce net - neutrality principles for ISPs, but each time, their attempts were shot down because ISPs were classified under Title I.
As seen in the case of Uber, silence, or attempts at partial neutrality, can have political repercussions because customers are no longer satisfied with neutrality.
Skype is actually at the centre of a net neutrality debate currently taking place in Europe, where an estimated 236 million phone users can't use the service properly because their wireless providers are blocking or degrading it.
Small outlets like Breitbart, after all, are on a level playing field with the likes of CNN largely because of the principles of net neutrality.
The GOP nominee is also thought to be favorable to companies that take advantage of foreign tax havens to stash their cash, such as Microsoft (msft) and Apple (aapl), while some investors think Clinton could be a tailwind to Netflix (nflx) because of her support of net neutrality rules.
The idea of «net neutrality» is also called «open internet» because it argues that no government or company can regulate the flow of the internet.
Harold Feld, a senior vice president at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit group that supports net neutrality, said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years.
In recent months, the company's chief executive, Reed Hastings, has said net neutrality was no longer the company's «primary battle,» partly because Netflix is now large enough that it can secure the deals it needs with internet access providers to ensure its service is delivered smoothly to customers.
That is because even if a country does not have a specific law or regulation with the term net neutrality or traffic prioritization they may take decisions if needed from more general powers.
The big broadband providers say that won't mater, because they actually support net neutrality, even if they didn't like the old rules.
Net neutrality is a principle that says no Internet traffic should get special treatment, and Internet service providers can't block or degrade certain traffic because the website or service pumping it out isn't willing to pay up for prioritization.
Past attempts at similar net - neutrality laws were shot down in court in part because ISPs were considered «information service providers» at the time under Title I of the Communications Act.
They haven't been allowed to though, because of regulations protecting «net neutrality»: the fundamental principle that all content on the web should be treated the same by Internet service providers (ISPs), no matter what kind of data it is.
Switzerland is also attractive because it has the longest track record of political stability and neutrality.
«Some suggestions in the report, particularly in relation to education, could be interpreted as reflecting a distinctly secular perspective and need clarifying, because there is no such thing as secular neutrality.
«Because,» said Jordan, «the Supreme Court has held that the Constitution guarantees government neutrality between religion and irreligion.»
Yes, freedom — because from the very beginning neutrality is «blown» by the label itself and by the «self - diagnosis» (Pruyser) of the parishioner who seeks help from a pastoral figure.
In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the language.
To be sure, neutrality governs this result: the cathedral is not safe because it is a religious building; it is safe because it is a building valued by a politically powerful constituent group.
Because neutrality supposes that it is possible for the state to act without taking any account of religion generally, or of the specific religious beliefs of constituent groups.
To interpret that «common good» in «neutral,» individualistic terms, or to believe that the best representative body is a group of nine unelected judges who impose such neutrality on everybody because of their latest excursion into Professor Tribe's political philosophy, is to distort the Constitution beyond recognition.
This is a funny article to post because it isn't like the LDS Church itself is behind the movement (which would be a big problem given their political neutrality).
On the other hand, Luther was quite unable to understand the authenticity of the quiet though often acid scholar dedicated to a policy of neutrality, of attempting as far as possible to stand outside polarising polemic — Erasmus came eventually to wonder whether it might have been better not to have written In Praise of Folly, because it had led to just such polarisation.
They are the focus of a legal struggle because Clarence House believes their publication would undermine Charles» «position of political neutrality».
However, a rule banning all religious clothing on the basis of presenting neutrality towards the customer was found potentially to be unjustified indirect discrimination, if for example the employer could have reasonably moved the employee to a non-customer-facing role, because such a ban may impact Muslims more than those of other faiths.
«If you are in government and you want to compromise the neutrality of the institutions that are supposed to restrain your government by putting your favourite people there, in the end, you will be misled into thinking that you are helping yourself because you are rather damaging yourself and that is what is happening now.»
According to Dr. Ledwidge, the concept of «race neutrality» or «colour blindness» is «off the mark — what appears to be neutral is [actually] regressive and harmful because historical injustices have created such an unequal environment that initial material deficits [along racial lines] must be recognized before they are able to be dealt with.»
This is a hostile neutrality, and an indicator of a larger rift, because teachers unions have traditionally been bastion of support for the Democratic Party.
«If we do not take care of the health of our planet, economic development, health care, net neutrality — all of which are tremendously important issues — we have no value for coming generations because we are in crunch time,» Nelson said.
Mr. Espaillat, who declined to comment for this story, is emboldened by WFP's neutrality, sources say, because it means Mr. Rangel won't be able to rely on the same get - out - the - vote apparatus that helped push him to victory in 2012.
At times he seems to regard science as morally neutral, but at other times as morally positive because its very neutrality means that it is part of the process of enlightenment.
Because medium complexions naturally appear tan, you want to «make sure that the bronzer has an element of neutrality to it,» says Surratt.
Schools «can not follow a policy of strict neutrality when their students» and families» identities are openly under attack in the civic sphere» — because failing to openly embrace students can leave them vulnerable to ostracization from their community.
Scholars speculate that the rest of the population also converted to Judaism in a bid for political neutrality, because Khazaria was wedged between Muslims to the east and Christians to the west.
Industry neutrality improves risk - adjusted returns on a wide variety of stock selection signals, perhaps because it removes persistent industry bets.
Despite the fact that HSUS had worked to kill similar bills in Texas, New York, Florida, and elsewhere, I was more optimistic about shelter reform legislation succeeding in Minnesota because two HSUS representatives — a Board member and Jennifer Fearing, the person in charge of sheltering policies for HSUS — personally assured me at a meeting in San Francisco just over a month ago that the days of HSUS claiming «neutrality» (a sham in and of itself given it benefits the status quo) but then working to kill shelter reform legislation were over.
Some have argued that I lack neutrality or objectivity because, in their view, TNR is a questionable method for reducing cat overpopulation.
And Palo Alto has been able to achieve carbon neutrality in large part because it has a set of assets and attributes that most other cities lack.
Stefan Lohmann — responsible for conceptual design, booking, and marketing: «I arranged our kick - off meeting because I knew that Sascha is not only an expert on questions of carbon neutrality and climate protection, but he's also open - minded, and I was therefore very confident that he would support our idea.
But this misses the point: While neutrality on revenue may sound fair or maybe even equitable in some forms, in fact it is neither, because it simply maintains an already highly inequitable and unsustainable status quo of revenue starvation and public disinvestment.
«Niskanen has always been of the mind that revenue neutrality is really important, because a carbon tax will have significant economic impacts that people are going to feel,» he told me.
Witness Chris Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who resigned from the IPCC this year because he believed an IPCC top hurricane scientist wrongly linked severe hurricanes to global warming; as a result, he wrote, «the IPCC process has been subverted and compromised, its neutrality lost.»
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