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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by mikeash on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:17AM (#8268358)
I just adore the "government is trying to destroy the free market" rhetoric when it applies to the internet. Do these people not know anything about the history of the internet, or do they merely choose to ignore it?
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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by bcoates on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:46AM (#8268548)
The history of the Internet as the most successful radical deregulation since the abolition of serfdom, or some other history of the Internet?
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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by mikeash on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:00AM (#8268618)
What deregulation, exactly?
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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by bcoates on Thursday September 04, 2014 @11:45AM (#8268907)
The 1990s transition from the US Internet infrastructure being a government run research project to the multiple privately owned networks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Net...

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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by mikeash on Thursday September 04, 2014 @12:20PM (#8269111)
That wasn't regulation, was it? It was originally a government project that they then opened up. There wasn't any regulation preventing private equivalents, and indeed there were quite a few private computer networks with similar capabilities. They all failed once the internet opened up, because the government-sponsored, government-run network was ultimately much superior.
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Re:Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Wi... by at-fates-hands on Thursday September 04, 2014 @10:35AM (#8268467)
I find it rather ironic that people who suddenly care about net neutrality actually saw nothing wrong with the Fairness Doctrine.

Just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

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