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[–] grue@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Net neutrality is just Common Carrier rules as applied to the Internet. It's frankly a no-brainer.

Your proposal should definitely also have been done -- allowing telecoms to also produce content at all is a massive conflict of interest and should never have been allowed in the first place -- but it doesn't obviate the need to also regulate the pure telecoms even after the breakup.