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Re:Ajit Pai and the FCC want it to be legal for Comcast to b... by croon on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:33AM (#15763957)
> Open? Like the ~25 years before 'NN'? I was there. Competition works.

The 25 years when internet was accessed over telephone wire which was regulated as a utility?

Do you even know why NN came to be?

> NN is just a typical BS branding for "More Rules". It's step 0 in the standard manual on mission creep.

In this evil governmental overreach conspiracy, who do you think benefits from these "More Rules"? What's their motive?

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Re:Ajit Pai and the FCC want it to be legal for Comcast to b... by jakeogh on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:56AM (#15764046)
Well I'm arguing against it so of course I have no idea. Please elaborate. Maybe also expand on the difference between oldschool "utility" dialup and pre-NN broadband (as if the upstream ISP couldn't legally traffic shape "utility" dialup).

I'm all ears on how mission creep with regards to regulation is not a "conspiracy". Maybe you understand that power expansion is a law of nature and hence does not require overt "evil" conspiracy, if so, we agree.

Definitely don't mention competition.

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