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Re:Keep the Internet Open by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:01PM (#13871437)
> That's a pretty broad brush you are painting with. Do you have some hard data that says things break down so clearly along party lines?

They do on the FCC, for the whole time since net neutrality and internet privacy have become an issue. Congress is a little fuzzier but mostly along the same lines.

In the electorate it might be blurrier, but clearly the distribution of views of the relevant politicians shows that the people who cross lines on the above description and who prioritize the issue when it comes to voting aren't that numerous.

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Re:Keep the Internet Open by nocman on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:25PM (#13871617)
"They do on the FCC"

Not sure what you mean by that, you mean the breakdown of Republicans vs Democrats at the FCC?

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Re:Keep the Internet Open by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:41PM (#13871724)
Yes, the FCC Republicans have been consistently against Open Internet regulation, the Democrats consistently for it. And similar shsrp partisan divisions exist on a number of other internet-related issues.
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