Thanks to everyone who replied for helping me better understand why this issue is so potent!
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I felt the same way about people who opposed TPP over its copyright provisions.
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I wouldn’t say it’s a top issue, but I lump it in with a general concern for concentrated corporate power (i.e. ISP monopolies) and it’s influence on politics.
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It's been something I have kept an eye on, but it hasn't been so huge with the tech folk on Mastodon I've been seeing and they get riled about plenty of stuff. Maybe I don't understand the issues but I fear "the internet" will increasingly be a handful of powerful platforms.
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An open and uncensored internet is a gateway issue to effective online organizing. Which in turn is (IMO) an essential tool to mobilize young folks and spur progressive action about the other issues (which, granted, do have a more immediate material effect on people's lives.)
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I'm equally baffled why you think there's a finite amount of political activism, and that your issues should take precedence? Without net neutrality, you won't have a platform for your other causes. Your movements will die with a whimper.
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That’s not really true, is it? Grassroots political activism existed long before the Internet. The heyday of the American civil rights movement was long before AOL.
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Net neutrality is a mobilizing issue in tech like nothing else I've seen except the travel ban. My question is about its unusual salience and ability to stir passions in an otherwise almost completely politically inert cohort of people.
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