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What exactly is so dangerous? The free transmission of information?

• bmelton 12y ago
  The idea that government regulation enables freedom is no necessarily one that holds water. If that were the case, the government regulations protecting car companies wouldn't be denying Tesla access to certain markets, and the regulations that govern taxi companies wouldn't be denying Uber and Lyft access to their markets. Admittedly, these aren't apples to apples comparisons, but it strikes me as somewhat ironic that after all of the hullabaloo with the NSA spying and such that we still hold the belief that the government is every trying to do the "right thing".
• nitrogen 12y ago
  The parent comment is probably referring to wording that says that "lawful" or "legal" content should not be blocked. The argument seems to be that the definition of "lawful" or "legal" will be stretched as appropriate to make whatever ISPs or the government wants to block "unlawful" or "illegal", like, say, Wikileaks.
• sschueller 12y ago
  Couldn't these new rules be applied to the Chinese ISPs and have no affect on how that internet is run? What is filtered now would still be filtered and I don't think you can say that the Chinese have net neutrality. Or am I missing something?