re: Let’s get this clear once and for all: the internet is NOT a utility

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Because one of the main arguments in favor of repealing NN was to "reduce regulation" and empower the free market.

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Just because a market isn't perfectly free doesn't mean market effects do not exist.

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If the telecom industry is not a a part of the free market, how will relieving NN change the monopoly of the current stakeholders?

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I can tell you what I think on this. But honestly, have YOU tried to ask yourself that question?

Or is it your belief that Comcast is going to bend over Netflix, Amazon, Google et al, and nothing will happen?

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Ironically that's exactly what "small govt conservatives" do when they talk about MJ legalisation

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I support legal MJ

And FISA courts are fricking secret. We have some pretty good history on what nations do with secret shite. But let's not derail.