There's so much chicken-little outrage going on right now too. The rules can be reinstated if the sky *actually* falls.
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Replying to @The_Petrichory @Outsideness
Could be, but likely won't. Net Neutrality is a policy that actually levels the informational playing field such that every socioeconomic status has equal access so long as they have internet (or a smartphone, which nearly everyone does these days).
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Replying to @PalinskiAuthor @Outsideness
[Citation Needed] Those of us old enough to remember the early public Internet and who helped build it never saw the sky fall as predicted.
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Replying to @The_Petrichory @Outsideness
It wasn't then what it is now. Even the original creators of the internet were doing so to share research and not to create a world-wide exchange of porn and cat pictures. This is a case of the technology exceeding it's original intentions to great benefit for all.
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Replying to @PalinskiAuthor @Outsideness
The original creators wanted a network enabling military communication even if major cities were nuked. Academic justification came later.
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Replying to @The_Petrichory @Outsideness
Im still not seeing any rationale for why excepting it could be "reinstated later." Let's jump to later and leave it alone now.
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Replying to @PalinskiAuthor @Outsideness
Because it represents state control - a growing bureaucracy, not a shrinking one - and everyone should be naturally skeptical of that.
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Replying to @The_Petrichory @Outsideness
In this case, it's not the level of control your insisting. Saying "thou shalt not do this one thing" is not institutionalizing socialism or communication. I don't think it even open the door for comparables that I would emphatically oppose Gov overreach on.
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Replying to @PalinskiAuthor @Outsideness
Have you not been paying attention? First they begin with the noble lie (that we need them to "protect" this). In a generation, when we're comfortable with their control, they tighten the screws. This is Cathedral-driven creeping socialism as it ever was. Think on that.
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Replying to @The_Petrichory @Outsideness
And I agree changing the entire system would make my point moot. But as it stands, with how endemic special lobbies and political favors are, I neither trust the gov or the companies with a proven record of not giving a shit about their consumers. Where I should I place my trust?
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Decentralized systems are the only things to trust. Support route-arounds.
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Replying to @Outsideness @The_Petrichory
This is a non-answer. Route-arounds are not available to the majority of our species. Power seeks power seeks centralized power. Decentralization is good in *most* respects, but you're arguing to turn the decisions over to 4 companies. Pretty decentralized, that.
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4 is more centers than 1.
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