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Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains... by partycoder on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:10AM (#15949994)
Only temporarily.

Once issues stop getting public attention they try again and usually succeed.

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Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains... by clouddrover on Monday December 18, 2017 @02:18AM (#15950027)
The article also cites Comcast's campaigns to oppose municipal networks. These campaigns failed too:

https://muninetworks.org/content/totals-are-comcast-spends-9...

They might try again, but then they might lose again. No need to give in to cynicism and apathy just yet.

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Re:Groups funded by the Koch brothers are campaigning agains... by partycoder on Monday December 18, 2017 @04:19PM (#15955628)
Remember SOPA? people protested it because it allowed to see what people did online.

But what happened this year? ISPs can sell your web history. Now they got net neutrality provisions revoked.

They lost a battle, but they are winning the war.

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