Burger King uses slow Whopper to explain net neutrality to customers

[SummerMadness]

Burger King uses slow Whopper to explain net neutrality to customers

Burger King is delivering its own hot take on a regulatory showdown that has enflamed the U.S., using a flame-grilled Whopper.

Burger King's new ad has become a sensation, with more than a million views on YouTube and it's lighting up Twitter .

In the ad customers, whom the restaurant says are real, are told they will be charged different prices for a Whopper, based on speed, or MBPS (making burgers per second). Prices range from $5, to $26.

 

[Hank77]

Considering how slow my AT&T DSL service is I should only be charged $5 a month.

 

[Nithavela]

This is nothing but virtue signalling (and this time, the term is appropriate). They just use this to go viral and generate more profits.

 

[super animator]

This is nothing but virtue signalling (and this time, the term is appropriate). They just use this to go viral and generate more profits.

Who cares? People needs to be inform about this.

 

[Nithavela]

Who cares? People needs to be inform about this.

People have been so informed about net neutrality these past few months it came out of their ears. What did it change? Nothing.

 

[FenderTL5]

People have been so informed about net neutrality these past few months it came out of their ears. What did it change? Nothing.

Kinda' like the video example - most won't care, until they realize it's their "burger" in the slow lane.

 

[super animator]

People have been so informed about net neutrality these past few months it came out of their ears. What did it change? Nothing.

What extract changes in mind do you have exactly? The FCC is going to repeal net-neturality irregardless of anything. The main point of that is awareness, which is very important for the upcoming midterm elections.

 

[Nithavela]

What extract changes in mind do you have exactly? The FCC is going to repeal net-neturality irregardless of anything. The main point of that is awareness, which is very important for the upcoming midterm elections.

The only thing that this ad is going to raise awareness on is the BK whopper.

 

[super animator]

The only thing that this ad is going to raise awareness on is the BK whopper.

"What extract changes in mind do you have exactly?"

 

[dgiharris]

People have been so informed about net neutrality these past few months it came out of their ears. What did it change? Nothing.

I was raised with the old black southern adage "The Truth Shall Set Ye Free"

Unfortunately, I do not believe that is the case any longer and I wonder if it was ever the case...

What I am discovering on an almost daily basis is that "the masses" are stupid and easily led via emotional hot buttons. Truth doesn't matter as much as one's ability to whip up a constituency into a frenzy then lead them by the nose and point them at the thing you don't like.

The fact that both the GOP and Dems conspired to pass net neutrality should be a call to arms of all of us who want freedom and liberty... But instead, we are too busy with our normal political bickering to notice.

So I've joined the brotherhood of cynics.