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by falcrist 957 days ago
> some kind of internet dystopia where data for each service is treated and billed differently

I feel like this particular topic (while important) distracts from a much more disturbing possibility: blocking or throttling legal content for political purposes.

It has been pretty rare, but it's not unheard of. Given the number of companies that can block your access to a given site (DNS, ISP, backbone, webhost, etc), I think having some regulatory or statutory protections for online speech is in order. Net Neutrality (in it's 2015 FCC formulation among others) is basically that.