I believe this is the Stratechery article Pai quoted and used for justification of the rollback.
F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
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#102Will the "new walled internet" have a better user interface than America Online?
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#103This has made me feel pretty damn powerless, as pretty much every site/person of significance has stated their opposition to such a repeal, and yet they went through it anyway. Just a gut feeling that our democracy isn't working properly when such a loud and clear, great majority of the population messaging is completely ignored.
Keep in mind the FCC is not accountable to the public – we don't vote them in. However, we as the public still have power to push our representatives to encode NN as law. Now that NN has unfortunately been repealed, we can cue in Congress to act.
>Now that NN has unfortunately been repealed, we can cue in Congress to act.
lol
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#104This is proof positive that the current FCC commission has ignored the will of the voters on this issue. Support for Net Neutrality was overwhelming and bi-partisan, yet Ajit Pai just plowed forward without consideration for what the citizens demanded. This is government at its worst.
It's funny, the FCC's mandate isn't to poll the public and do whatever most of them want. Strange how people seem to think it's a numbers game, at least when they feel the numbers are on their side
Really funny when people in a democracy believe in majority rule.
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#105I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Oh man, this analogy could be carried much further.
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#106If you voted for Trump, this one's on you.
Ayup.
Re: F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
#107This has made me feel pretty damn powerless, as pretty much every site/person of significance has stated their opposition to such a repeal, and yet they went through it anyway. Just a gut feeling that our democracy isn't working properly when such a loud and clear, great majority of the population messaging is completely ignored.
Don't give up. Our democracy isn't working properly. Too many are complacent.
Re: F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
#108This is proof positive that the current FCC commission has ignored the will of the voters on this issue. Support for Net Neutrality was overwhelming and bi-partisan, yet Ajit Pai just plowed forward without consideration for what the citizens demanded. This is government at its worst.
"at its worst" (and yes, it is government at its worst in the lack of competition protection)
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#109Re: F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
#110This has made me feel pretty damn powerless, as pretty much every site/person of significance has stated their opposition to such a repeal, and yet they went through it anyway. Just a gut feeling that our democracy isn't working properly when such a loud and clear, great majority of the population messaging is completely ignored.
> our democracy isn't working properly
Democracy doesn't work through public declarations, it works through elections. One year ago, the states chose Donald Trump as president, knowing they he would end Net Neutrality [1]. If a population wants to send a different message, they must do it in the next election [2].
[1] https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/53260835850816716... [2] https://swingleft.org/