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Re:Democrats to push to reinstate repealed 'net neutrality' ... by takeda on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @12:48AM (#19316648)
Really? You didn't notice large acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T, pulling HBO and Cinemax out of Dish network (to encourage people to use streaming), jacking prices on DirecTV (acquired early by AT&T during previous administration), then providing capped internet access, and zero rating to HBO and Cinemax (again owned by AT&T)?

And that just a single company.

I'm especially mad, because I am a Dish customer and don't have HBO since November.

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Re:Democrats to push to reinstate repealed 'net neutrality' ... by rdtsc on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:18AM (#19316944)
Like a sibling comment pointed out already, how would have net neutrality prevented that? You're thinking they are merging because they planning to take advantage of anti-nn regulations better?
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Re:Democrats to push to reinstate repealed 'net neutrality' ... by speedplane on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:25AM (#19316972)
> You're thinking they are merging because they planning to take advantage of anti-nn regulations better?

Yes, of course. Why else would a communications company and a content company merge? It only makes sense if the can leverage each-others natural advantages. With strong NN regulations, AT&T would need to provide everyone with same opportunities they are providing Time Warner.

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Re:Democrats to push to reinstate repealed 'net neutrality' ... by michaelt on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:17AM (#19319480) 

  Why else would a communications company
  and a content company merge?
Ask MSNBC and AOL Time Warner :)
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Re:Democrats to push to reinstate repealed 'net neutrality' ... by kortilla on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @01:24AM (#19316763)
None of that is relevant to NN other than the zero rating (which is allowed on cell networks anyway where price per gb is relevant). That whole acquisition was entirely unaffected by net neutrality.
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