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Re:The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official by rhino369 on Monday June 11, 2018 @11:09AM (#17284888)
The biggest reason is that the net nuetrality rules required the FCC to also switch to Title II regualtion, which gives the FCC much broader and stronger regulatory powers. The FCC has chosen to not use those powers, but they could, for example, start regulating prices.

There also might be new business models that are better for the consumer that doesn't actually cause the problems net neutrality proponents fear. For example, some of Tmobile's actions were probably not neutral, but Tmo wasn't really harming customers. In other words, we shouldn't ban something unless we know its actually harmful.

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Re:The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official by TearsInTheRain on Monday June 11, 2018 @11:52AM (#17285295)
> In other words, we shouldn't ban something unless we know its actually harmful.

That is like saying we shouldn't have checks on a president's power because they might be a good dictator. In the long run preventing ISP's abuses is going to be more beneficial than "beneficial" infringements on NN. Imho ISPs shouldnt have the power to determine which companies qualify for unlimited data streaming even if they aren't using that power to shut down competitors (yet)

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Re:The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official by skwirl on Monday June 11, 2018 @12:22PM (#17285626)
Saying that we shouldn't ban businesses and consumers from engaging in voluntary activities unless harm can be demonstrated is actually nothing like saying we shouldn't have checks on the president's power because they might be a good dictator.

I fully support net neutrality but some of these analogies are absurd.

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Re:The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official by mmirate on Monday June 11, 2018 @08:01PM (#17289669)
Unchecked presidential power can do literally anything to you, without recourse.

Unchecked power of an ISP can do literally anything to your internet service, and only as long as you stay with that ISP. Unchecked and abused power of an ISP also leads to other ISPs competing on "not doing the X harmful thing that Y ISP does", meaning that in the aggregate the harmful ISP loses business anyway.

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Re:The Repeal of Net Neutrality Is Official by rhino369 on Monday June 11, 2018 @02:19PM (#17286886)
That is bad analogy. NN could always be implemented later and a dictator can't just be voted out of office.
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