Most interesting part of this post (to me) is to see how far the perceived importance of net neutrality has fallen on HN. 96 points in 5 hours as of this comment.
Old posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=net+neutrality
Old posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=net+neutrality
Late nineties I remember one hot topic in society was prayer in school, and nowadays I hardly hear about that anymore, 9/11 had something to do with that though.
Seriously, government gets into these fads, The Next Big Thing, and, since usually a whole new group of young, idealistic, inexperienced humans comes of age, it seems like a hot button item.
It rarely is, certainly not enough for the government to "do something" about it. We as individuals can fix the problems ourselves, if allowed to.
The cycle repeats.
May be by design too. 2 days ago, we got more formal reporting on how Russia may have been involved in manipulating elections. Again. But it was on New Years' Eve. (not that I expect that news to last long on HN).
If I wasn't so tired of all this falling on deaf ears, I'd chuckle at the irony.