Ladies and gentlemen, in this corner it’s conservative GOP Senator Ted Cruz! In that corner, it’s Mark Hamill…otherwise known as Luke Skywalker!
Ted Cruz and Mark Hamill are engaging in a Twitter war over net neutrality laws…and in spite of long odds (considering Hamill’s…ahem, “Empire” of Twitter followers and social-media mojo) Cruz appears to have gotten the upper hand!
Hamill has said that he “hates” Trump’s FCC board and that Luke Skywalker would feel the same way, due to their decision to free the internet from government regulations.
Cruz shot back as if speaking to the Star Wars character.
.@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
Good points, all. Going on the defensive, Hamill responded with a barrage of insults…
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❤️-mh https://t.co/nHpJVG1Wpe
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) December 17, 2017
Cruz struck back with a light-saber, er, we mean, some quotes from Star Wars in defense of a free internet:
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…fear leads to anger…anger 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
Hamill’s Democrat legions fought back by changing the subject some more, bringing up women’s rights issues.
But Cruz is right…Darth Vader was the ultimate government-regulator! Luke Skywalker and The Rebellion were fighting for a free, open society…and I’m sure they were no fans of the Emperor trying to regulate what was on anyone’s computers.
Authoritarian control is the real agenda of Democrats today, or even long ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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