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by Prolorn 5806 days ago
That a loose analogy can be drawn between network neutrality and newspapers does not mean both cases have equal merits.

One of the merits of each case must be their practicality, and at least to me, net neutrality seems relatively straightforward compared to newspaper regulation. It is more-or-less the default state of the internet today, I believe, while newspaper regs appear harder to craft.

Regulators could fail to discern the right vs. wrong places to intervene, as you say, but that's all the more reason we ought to point them out.