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It'll just be rewritten in five or ten years or whenever the other team is in power. I'm not sure why anyone gets worked up about this stuff anymore.

• wtallis 9y ago
  Because it's not a pendulum. Net neutrality was how the internet worked de facto from its inception through approximately the end of the dial-up days. It wasn't necessary to impose net neutrality de jure until home broadband was widespread and capable of eating into traditional cable TV revenue. It wasn't necessary to regulate net neutrality for DSL carriers back when local loop unbundling applied to them. But between 2000 and 2010, the net neutrality situation got worse than it ever had been, the regulatory efforts from 2010 to 2015 were half-assed at best, and the 2015 regulations weren't in place long enough to even establish enough judicial precedent to tell whether they could work long-term. Partisan control of Congress definitely swings back and forth semi-regularly, but that's not what the history of net neutrality looks like.