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I wish all our energy being spent on NN would go towards breaking ISP monopolies, it would achieve the same goals of NN including better services, cheaper prices.

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The end result would be better and the discussion around the lack of a free market in ISP's should be the primary public discourse.

NN doesn't solve that and removing it also doesn't solve that.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pgak38/the-fcc-ca...

What would you do to break the ISP monopolies?

I'd decouple the content creation from the network delivery. How soon before cable companies start zero-rating their own content? Also, local regulations granting monopolies have to start being rolled back, or municipalities buy the infrastructure from the ISPs and let them compete to use it.

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