>Funny how something intended to prevent ISPs from throttling content turned into a debate about helping out the disadvantaged, etc
Isn't that just politics in general?
Isn't that just politics in general?
It's like everything else in the last 20+ years. Someone drafts a bill that sounds like a good idea, then before you know it, it balloons to thousands of pages of rhetoric drafted by every lobbyist in Washington.
I don't know what the answer is. I can think of a few solutions, but they're impractical and would never happen.
Republicans: Want the government out of it. Democrats: Only care about it to the extent that it's a nexus of class/race warfare.
Only when it benefits big business. Republicans are more than happy to stick the government into your religion, your health decisions, your recreational drug use, etc.