Lulz, Dems to author Net Neutrality bill.

Democrats are going give Trump 2020 they keep this up..

Is it to reclassify ISPs as common carriers and put it back under Title II? Because I think that’s a largely incoherent argument. All the things people that like NN rarely come up with the rationale for why Title II is necessary to accomplish their goals.

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It's the beginning of their attempts to control opposition voices.

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Paranoia much? What does that even mean in real life?

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It is their 4D Chess

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Makes sense. Like 99% of the unique comments submitted to FCC were pro-NN. It's a winning issue and forcing republicans to vote it down is the strategy I guess.

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Is it to reclassify ISPs as common carriers and put it back under Title II? Because I think that’s a largely incoherent argument. All the things people that like NN rarely come up with the rationale for why Title II is necessary to accomplish their goals.

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That only happened because Comcast argued in court that the FTC had no jurisdiction on commenting on their practices because they were a utility provider.

FCC then used existing law under title 2 that would apply to them as a utility and stop the activity the FTC was targeting (misleading advertising and targeted throttling of data).

A bill would not have to put them back under title 2. That was just the legal framework that was already in place that became usable after Comcast’s shitty lawyering.

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What will Libertarians and Republicans do now?

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Oppose it, one would assume.

Next?

Me either really but I’m pretty sure our internet should have been horrible by now from the hissy fitting going on at the time. And mine still works like a charm and my rates are fine, etc.

This isn’t about the public, this is about money in pockets and control of the internet. Look at the obvious sides here:

-Internet provider services (Cox, AT&T, Verizon, etc) are all controlled by Republican leadership
-Web-based services (Google, Netflix, Apple for ITunes, etc) are all controlled by Democrat leadership

It’s a clear and obvious power struggle that doesn’t appear to have significant effect on the public as long as the two parts of the services are warring. The issue becomes if both parts of the industry end up controlled by the same entity (vertical monopolizing, controlling all the steps of the process). Each side has to play nice with the other right now bc any semblance of control is minimal at best, and either side has enough money and resources to divorce the other. Google is trying to do Fiber so it can get rid of the provider services, and Cox etc can throttle the web services or remove them and start their own replacements

Make it stop! Too many have already died