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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 2864 days ago
Be careful what you wish for. A significant portion of the general population see Twitter, Google, and Facebook as infrastructure companies. If a large enough portion of the population is convinced that net neutrality is important and legislation must be written to accomplish it, the three companies and likely CloudFlare will likely fall under its umbrella. If you ask people to recall an incident of Internet censorship, if they recall anything, it will most likely be something done by one of those 3 and not by an ISP.
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How would this not be a good thing? Facebook and Google probably should face more public scrutiny, not less.
At this point, the public is probably sick of the tech giants enough to want to nationalize them, or to at least break them up.