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The Government wants to take over the internet. They say it's needed because it's not free enough. It's not?

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  • 6 years ago
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    What????

    Are they nuts? Or is the Government going to replace all that advertising with Subsidies and control? Free?

    If the Government gets involved you KNOW it will screw up the entire universe!

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Net neutrality (also network neutrality, Internet neutrality, or net equality) is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication. The term was coined by Columbia University media law professor Tim Wu in 2003 as an extension of the longstanding concept

  • DW
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Let's see this alleged plan for a government takeover of the internet. Do you have the plan? Or, more likely, do you have no idea what net neutrality means and figure it must be bad?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    No, the government wants to stop ISP's from ruining the internet. The government wants to keep the internet open and neutral.

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  • 6 years ago

    By not free enough, they mean it's not griped in their hands...

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Liberals like when you have to pay twice or more for the same thing. I already pay for internet access. But, no.

  • 6 years ago

    If my choices are government control or corporate control, I choose government. At least I can vote them out.

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