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by wpietri 4402 days ago
I'm tempted to refute his points, but it's not like anybody here doesn't get why "the internet economy" would be helped by neutrality. So I'll just sigh and vaguely wonder what it costs to buy a congressional representative these days.
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According to a commenter, Patrick Roanhouse: "Rep Bob Latta (R-OH) also happens to have gotten $41200 in contributions to his 2014 election campaign from Telecommunications and Cable industry affiliates as listed OpenSecrets.orgs campaign finance tracker."

So... not much.

If you'd like, there's also the option of kicking some money in for this: https://mayone.us/
I'm already in! And excited by the emails I'm getting about the next stages of their plan. I am totally willing to try to buy our democracy back. I miss it.