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I like how “both sides” here are clearly the corporations and special interests. And since “both sides” here did the lobbying and propaganda we’re now at a place where there’s no value in the comments collected or the debate at all.

I could give a —- expletive — about what the corporations think. What about normal people?

It feels like we need a better audio mix for public policy discourse.

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“Both sides” are solely composed of corporations and their benefactors debating the parameters of a business relationship that has a relatively large fiscal impact on their respective operations. This is not a public issue that concerns normal people at all. The fact that so many normal people think the decision on net neutrality will have a meaningful impact on their lives, the products they use, or even democracy shows how successful these corporations have been in astroturfing this issue. It’s another nothingburger fake political debate of the kind that pervades and rots actual public discourse.

Correct, this is merely a fight between corporations on who controls the flow of information. As we have seen edge providers are also information monopolies who can censor and limit who use their platforms based on subjective whims.

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