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by q12we34rt5 2744 days ago
>You mean like... Netflix being prevented from streaming through your ISP (the only one available in your area mind) because Google paid it more to prefer YouTube traffic?

You mean a thing that has literally never happened anywhere in the US?

> The things Americans will frame as freedom of choice will continue to baffle me I guess.

I understand that you are frustrated with what is happening with this new legislation but it doesn't help you to make up smug fantasies about America just to make yourself feel better. Your energy would be better spent on your own knitting and maybe this kind of thing wouldn't happen.

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You mean a thing that has literally never happened anywhere in the US?

This specifically may not have happened, but these things certainly did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17284597