Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order

Re:Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order by thenewwazoo on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @02:15PM (#11904054)

> if the choice is between Google controlling access to the internet and Chinese-style regulation

You're committing the fallacy of the excluded middle. There is a massive gulf between unregulated behavior of publicly-held companies and authoritarian dictatorship by an unelected body, and the USA is somewhere there in the middle.

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Re:Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order by treehau5 on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @02:32PM (#11904185)

I think this is more along the lines of false dilemma, no?

oh I see this is an alias for that. false dilemma, false dichotomy and excluded middle are apparently all the same thing.

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Re:Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order by pc86 on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @03:45PM (#11904761)

They are certainly not

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Re:Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order by dctoedt on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @05:10PM (#11905342)

> They are certainly not

So what's your understanding of those terms? Mine is identical to that of treehau5.

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Re:Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order by treehau5 on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @05:05PM (#11905299)

Ok, wikipedia lied to me then, or I misread. Sorry.

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