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Re:President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet by dragonwriter on Monday November 10, 2014 @10:29AM (#8584015)
> Forced compliance, as in "You are a utility and all such utilities must comply with NSA/CIA/FBI/ABC requirements"

We have that now, without net neutrality.

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Re:President Obama Calls for a Free and Open Internet by VLM on Monday November 10, 2014 @10:42AM (#8584118)
At the federal level more so than state/local.

The feds have had free access to everything for a long time, what you're likely to see after utility conversion is the local cops demanding access to all ebay/CL traffic for an entire city to track down stolen property fences or similar actions. Give me a list of everyone in my district who ever bought lockpicks or lockpicking stuff.

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