"Net neutrality is actually a massive government regulation that benefits the large corporate players"
Oh yeah I guess that's why these large corporate players are the ones lobbying to remove it. You mention that it benefits Yahoo, but if that was true, then why would Tumblr (owned by Yahoo) be removing posts supporting net neutrality? Or why would Yahoo's parent company have a record of violating net neutrality and trying to have it removed? Fair treatment of data by the government is just as essential to freedom in this digital era as fair treatment of people by the government.
Government regulating free individuals is not essential to freedom, it's the opposite. Follow the money, we named countless examples of companies who are in support of net neutrality and those happen to be the major players being monopolized by the system. Yahoo is hardly a concern. Their days are 20 years behind them for the most part.
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You are right that governments regulating individuals is against freedom, but this is not what net neutrality is. Money is perhaps the biggest corrupter in human history, and big businesses are built on it. They will always want more and more, even if this doesn't directly translate to a happier customer. They will split up websites into packages, throttle our connections and claim you're not on the "internet fast lane" just to get another buck out of us. It would be as if your electric company offered you a separate package for each room in your house and you had to buy the most expensive one to get power to your entire house. You might be fine with that because you can afford it. I wouldn't be even if I could.
I'm not necessarily for a bigger government. That leaves the door just as open to corruption as it is now. I'd be very happy if the government was but a verifiable distributed rule set. But for everybody to be free, we must not be allowed to hinder that right for others less it eventually happen to us, too.
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