I don't think it comes as a huge shock to a lot of people that conservatards are only market fundamentalists when it works in their favor. Suddenly, people like Tucker think the internet should be regulated "like a public utility", when I thought they didn't even want those regulated by anything but the whims of "the market" - aka their private owners. They want business to replace government, that is, become government, because they think it will somehow reward them above all others. Now they're finally starting to get what they want only to realize they don't really want what they thought they wanted.
I don't think it comes as a huge shock to a lot of people that conservatards are only market fundamentalists when it works in their favor. Suddenly, people like Tucker think the internet should be regulated "like a public utility", when I thought they didn't even want those regulated by anything but the whims of "the market" - aka their private owners. They want business to replace government, that is, become government, because they think it will somehow reward them above all others. Now they're finally starting to get what they want only to realize they don't really want what they thought they wanted.