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Comment by Spivak | Hacker News Reader

So um... where is the link to the actual plan?

The FCC is waiting to release it Wednesday or Friday of this week, when a majority of Americans are busy on Holidays or shopping.

Correct, because as everyone knows, when Americans aren't busy shopping or on holiday, they are busy reading new FCC proposals.

regardless, releasing it at that time will reduce the news coverage.

Sure, but they're not listening to public comments anyway so it really doesn't matter.

I beleive it's part of the NPRM [0] issued in May.

[0] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-344614A1.p...

I can't decide if titling it "Restoring Internet Freedom" is a perverse sense of humour or just blatant effrontery.

Certainly not humor. I've met with my republican legislators (well, met with staffers at one, called others) - their official position really is that Net Neutrality is BigGovernment(tm) and they need to get rid of it to protect the little guy.

The problem is that it is working. It drives me up a wall to try to explain this to nontechnical conservatives. They actually think that this is a good thing that will increase the amount of liberty they have in their lives.

Freedom for ISPs, right? And for enterprises to buy preferential connectivity. For the rest of us, not so much :(

You will be free to accept the ISPs offered plan(s), or not.

That'd be cool, if there were competition. Which there isn't, in most of the US.

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