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Are you okay with Comcast doing IP shaping and charging Netflix? If Comcast didn't exist, internet access wouldn't exist for many people.

That's why it's a false dichotomy. Internet.org could very easily be rate and data capped alternatives.

>connect the two thirds of the world that doesn’t have internet access. -Internet.org

This would give them monopsonic control over the internet.

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> If Comcast didn't exist, internet access wouldn't exist for many people.

Sorry that is extremely far from the truth. Any of the other major ISPs' would leap at the chance to guzzle up these customers if there was no other competition.

You're splitting hairs. Most of Comcast's last mile infrastructure was government subsidized, exactly because no-one was "jumping on it".

So you're saying that it's okay to ignore net neutrality (charge Netflix) when the government isn't there to help subsidize last-mile infrastructure? When you could just as easily provide a capped alternative?

That's the point and splitting hairs doesn't change it.

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