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Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality

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Re: Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality

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My opinion is that for the Trump supporter this is not a bad thing, per-se. It is going to be masked under some coat of security mixed with a bit of corporate capitalist liberty. And also, a lot of people is going to make a lot of money filtering and analyzing data.

Re: Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality

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Will dismantling the legacy also include scaling back the drone and surveillance programmes? Or is Obama's legacy is only the good parts?

The reason the drone and surveillance programs didn't take a large part in election propaganda this past year is that violating individuals' rights has bipartisan support.

Re: Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality

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Wapo king of fake news[1]. Also, Title edited for maximum click bait. 1. http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-knapp/2016/11/20/washingt...

> Wapo king of fake news[1]

WaPo has been central to a lot of real news in recent history. Why do you say that it is fake?

No matter which side you're on it is in our interest to not let net neutrality go down without any resistance.

Re: Donald Trump could dismantle net neutrality

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My opinion is that for the Trump supporter this is not a bad thing, per-se. It is going to be masked under some coat of security mixed with a bit of corporate capitalist liberty. And also, a lot of people is going to make a lot of money filtering and analyzing data.

The irony here is that eliminating net neutrality regulations are the opposite of security in most ways because without it, ISP's and whatnot are free to shape traffic however they see fit and in doing so introduce risk. Additionally, from a governance perspective the growing consensus, whether we feel good about it or not, is that we are going to need more regulations surrounding the Internet and devices which connect to it. Moving away from net neutrality rules "because regulation" doesn't bode well for getting control of what is by all measures an out of control market. Bruce Schneier covers this pretty well in his testimony to Congress:

http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/bruce-schneier-internet-of-th...

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