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Re:As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net... by guelo on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @06:36PM (#9104309)
It is Comcast, Verizon, et al.'s heavy-handed, deceptive, anti-customer business practices that will decide this debate. Anti-government ideologues always used to talk about how awful the DMV is but people love the DMV compared to the telecom monopolies. They're universally despised. Despite all their lobbying money there is luckily still some democracy remaining in our government.
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Re:As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net... by TallGuyShort on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @07:35PM (#9104559)
Instead of being anti-government, people should be pro-individual-freedom. Corporations can inhibit individual-freedom as easily as government if government doesn't actively support individual freedom.
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Re:As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net... by rayiner on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @07:43PM (#9104600)
> Despite all their lobbying money there is luckily still some democracy remaining in our government.

Yes, because nobody in the triple-digit billions revenue web tech industry lobbied for net neutrality.

Whether you think neutrality is a good idea or not, you can't ignore the conflict at play here. There's a lot of money distributing bits over wires to consumers. The net neutrality and copyright debates boil down to a fight between companies that make the bits, the ones that aggregate and distribute the bits, and the ones that build the wires about who gets how much of that money.

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Re:As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net... by guelo on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @08:31PM (#9104793)
Sure. But I guess my point was that money, on either side, doesn't matter when one side has white-hot mass passion.
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Re:As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net... by qwerty853490 on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @10:07PM (#9105049)
Intel, Cisco, IBM and a host of other large tech companies also oppose net neutrality regulations. Why is this always painted as a good and evil issue?
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