re: No One Should Fear the Death of Net Neutrality

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With enough collusion

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Collusion with who? If the government is completely out of the market then who will a company turn to to help them swing their weight around?

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You think someone is going to step up and create another internet anytime soon

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This is probably the dumbest thing I've ever read. The internet is merely a tool. Not a company. This is like saying farmers are monopolies because no one will be making new land.

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the free market would RAPE the internet. look at every industry the past 20 years. any excuse to make a fricking dollar.

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Are you an idiot?

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Title II isn't synonymous with net neutrality - quite a few people weren't in favor of the Title II reclassification of ISPs, but agreed that it was ultimately necessary to preserve an open internet.

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Yes, but Title II is synonymous with the current NN discussion and that is what people are arguing needs to be upheld. My thread title is obviously "click baited" and a more honest path would be to say, "No one should fear the removal of Title II and the FCCs authority to regulate broadband under the Communications Act of 1934" but how many would even know what that means

In fact, the FTC will regain the authority that it previously had to enforce NN. So, yes, NN isn't going to die per se, but the current ill advised regulatory structure.

The removal of Title II will allow for common sense management of data packets. They aren't created equally and don't need to be treated as such. Also, many of the examples that people use to highlight the coming internet apocalypse are based on outdated technology.