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This is a bit like removing a traffic light from an intersection and then after a day saying "see, nothing happened, we don't need regulation from traffic lights". Laissez faire, everything will be alright.


> and then after a day

It's been ~5.5 years since "the internet was doomed" by the FTC[0]

How long are we supposed to wait for your doom prophecy to realize?

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-exclusive/ex...


California stepped up and passed its own net neutrality law, which effectively killed any widespread adoption of anti-net neutrality practices.

It's not unreasonable for the federal government to step back in to regulate an issue that is firmly within their purview.


ISPs don't exist in a vacuum. Why would Comcast spend millions of dollars implementing some anti-NN consumer ratfuckery when they'd have to revert it once the next administration came into power? If Comcast knew that it wasn't going to get overturned, then they would take advantage.


> If Comcast knew that it wasn't going to get overturned, then they would take advantage.

So now our logic is based on a crystal ball? Do the goalposts ever stop moving?


> How long are we supposed to wait for your doom prophecy to realize?

We shouldn't have waited at all, and in fact shouldn't have allowed it to be repealed in the first place. We have been extraordinarily lucky to have not had to deal with any nonsense from ISPs in all this time. California having their own NN law helped a lot. Now that we're back on track we can call it crisis averted, no harm no foul.




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