> But isn't that also the case with the topic under discussion, net neutrality? I mean, it is not the case that any carrier has unfairly shaped traffic TFA: "C

> But isn't that also the case with the topic under discussion, net neutrality? I mean, it is not the case that any carrier has unfairly shaped traffic TFA: "Censorship by ISPs is a serious problem. Comcast has throttled Netflix, AT&T blocked FaceTime, Time Warner Cable throttled the popular game League of Legends, and Verizon admitted it will introduce fast lanes for sites that pay-and slow lanes for everyone else-if the FCC lifts the rules. This hurts consumers and businesses large and small." > to the extent that they're determining winners and losers The saga goes something like this: NN has been the assumed default since at least the late 90's. ISPs recently started to seriously test that presumption. FCC stepped in, and here we are. The NN rule started in 2015, but has been the default behavior of ISPs for decades. ISPs have been chomping at the bit to take advantage of their monopoly for decades. Comcast and Verizon are blatantly gearing up for this play, including via huge acquisitions. The "wait until they really screw you" argument is an uncompelling call to non-action. > This fear is totally hypothetical as well. Again, no, it's not. ISPs are coming out and saying publicly "yes, we will do this". > ...Hurricane Katrina... The government contingencies didn't work. Counter-point: the literally thousands of well-handled hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes. > The private sector doesn't always work out either, but much of the time it does a better job. The private for-profit sector doesn't provide systematic disaster relief, anecdotes of charity whipped into a frenzy by mega-corp's PR firms aside. For-profit FEMA just Does. Not. Exist. Here's a catalog of various forms of actual disaster relief provided after Katrina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina_disaster_relief#Other_organizations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina_disaster_rel... Read -- actually read -- the overview of that article. Even when the government abjectly fails at disaster relief it still does several orders of magnitude more than private for-profit enterprises. Katrina was a failure of early warning and evacuation protocols, not a failure of disaster response mechanisms. Which makes sense -- aside from price gouging, there's no profit to be made on emergency response.