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i've been calling senators' offices from republican states left and right. the office worker for the senator in kansas informed me that repealing net neutrality

i've been calling senators' offices from republican states left and right. the office worker for the senator in kansas informed me that repealing net neutrality "levels the playing field." i didn't understand his argument well enough to counter it, unfortunately...it just didn't make sense and I thought perhaps I was missing something.

ep103 9y ago
You're not missing anything. It literally doesn't make any sense. Its a talking point the ISPs have been using for the last few years, that they're "Pro-Net Neutrality, but want it enforced differently, legally." Its a propaganda tactic in that it is both factually incorrect, misleading, and is a response created to make the public lose interest in what sounds like a nuanced debate. ISPs arguments against net neutrality have all, repeatedly, fallen apart every time this has come to the political forefront; they simply do not have a leg to stand on in the US. The only reason we're going through this again, is because Trump and the Republican Party put a stooge in charge of the FCC. This has, incredibly, somehow become a partisan issue with each political party taking explicit stances for or against NN.