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I'd definitely like to hear the other side of the story. It's hard to get a proper sense of the situation with just a single viewpoint.

• freeone3000 10y ago
  Something like http://fortune.com/2017/03/22/senate-vote-repeal-fcc-broadband-privacy/ http://fortune.com/2017/03/22/senate-vote-repeal-fcc-broadba... ? It could be phrased as removing onerous regulation from ISPs that doesn't apply to websites, limiting federal overreach into what should be a free-market problem.
  • Pharylon 10y ago
    Ah, yes, the "free market" of state-granted monopolies.
  • aanm1988 10y ago
    That's a poor argument. Putting aside my personal opinion that the "free market" is a bullshit reason almost all the time, it clearly doesn't apply to ISPs. Too many regional monopolies. I can choose to avoid websites I think aren't trustworthy. I can use duckduckgo instead of google, for example. I can't really get around my ISP without jumping through a lot more hoops.
  • st3v3r 10y ago
    The only way you could make that argument is if you feel that ISPs should be able to do this in the first place. I, for one, feel they absolutely should not be able to do this under any circumstances. As such, I do not see it as overreach, or anything that the market should be "solving".