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>The internet developed without it. We've never really had it We did have it. Defacto net neutrality, enforced by a competetive ISP market. It worked. And once
by 9889095r3jh 9y ago
>The internet developed without it. We've never really had it
We did have it. Defacto net neutrality, enforced by a competetive ISP market. It worked. And once we started to lose that, consumers absolutely did feel the impact. Remember when Comcast throttled bit torrent?
>If you're worried about centralization, net neutrality won't help much. Facebook and Google are large enough to crowd out other players with or without net neutrality.
Sure, they can still dominate under net neutrality. It's just significantly easier without it.
- juliangoldsmith 9y agoThe Net Neutrality law that was pushed recently did nothing for actual net neutrality, which was already preserved by existing legislation. Also, if these laws were so obviously needed, why did they need to shovel $196M toward promoting them [0]? 0: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/soros-ford-foundation-shovel-196-million-to-net-neutrality-groups-staff-to-white-house/article/2560702 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/soros-ford-foundation-sho...