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Re:Keep the Internet Open by freeone3000 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:36PM (#13871680)
They have fewer resources and are easier to ignore.
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Re:Keep the Internet Open by wonder_er on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:30PM (#13872872)
The bureaucrats are easier to ignore?

If you violate some obscure statute, you can be fined. (At best.) If you don't pay the fine, the penalties can escalate until the local police or feds arrest you (at gunpoint, if you resist) and lock you in a box.

There's 180,000 pages in the federal register [0].

How is that "easy to ignore"?

I'll take "business that I can stop paying at any time" over "armed gunmen with the legal authority to arrest me" every time.

[0] https://regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/sites/regulatory...

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Re:Keep the Internet Open by none_for_me_thx on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:03PM (#13872715)
I encourage you to ignore the IRS, then. Or, hey, even the FCC.
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