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nolabels

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8. It really was never free

Reply to alphafemale (Reply #7)

Thu Nov 23, 2017, 09:52 AM

Nov 2017

It was just operated on a socialist model. Wealthy people don't like big important things they cannot make money from. Nobody was going broke facilitating internet access, but big wooly corporations acted like it was immoral and they were being bled to death by it.

Why the outrage, everybody knew they were going to try and go at it with hatchet and ax

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End of net neutrality could spell doom for real estate small businesses [View all] Sedona Nov 2017 OP

Turning our Commons over to for-profit entities. CrispyQ Nov 2017 #1

I think the threat to political discourse is greater than the threat to commerce. nt Snotcicles Nov 2017 #2

That being said both threats would be catastrophic to a free society. nt Snotcicles Nov 2017 #3

Legalized extortion. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #4

People need to boycott any service that doesn't offer true JCMach1 Nov 2017 #5

I think this neutrality rollback is going to face much more resistance than they believe. n/t Akoto Nov 2017 #6

They thought the response to "New Coke" was bad? alphafemale Nov 2017 #7

It really was never free nolabels Nov 2017 #8