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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by carlisle_ on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:30PM (#9114198)
>Funny how something intended to prevent ISPs from throttling content turned into a debate about helping out the disadvantaged, etc

Isn't that just politics in general?

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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by Zancarius on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:32PM (#9114221)
Yep.

It's like everything else in the last 20+ years. Someone drafts a bill that sounds like a good idea, then before you know it, it balloons to thousands of pages of rhetoric drafted by every lobbyist in Washington.

I don't know what the answer is. I can think of a few solutions, but they're impractical and would never happen.

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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by canvia on Thursday February 26, 2015 @02:01PM (#9114491)
Limit the length of bills and require them to be read out loud into public record in their entirety before passage.
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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by rayiner on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:55PM (#9114429)
Telecom is peculiarly mired in it. By and large, here is the mainstream positions of the two major parties on telecom:

Republicans: Want the government out of it. Democrats: Only care about it to the extent that it's a nexus of class/race warfare.

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Re:FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote by bsder on Thursday February 26, 2015 @05:38PM (#9116059)
> Republicans: Want the government out of it.

Only when it benefits big business. Republicans are more than happy to stick the government into your religion, your health decisions, your recreational drug use, etc.

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