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    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 24 11:29:00 2022
    Five Years Ago

    This week in 2017, the chips started to fall in the wake of the net
    neutrality appeal. A tonedeaf video starring Ajit Pai led to one of
    those internet situations where everyone is wrong, while Pai was
    insisting net neutrality supporters were wrong about everything since
    Twitter hadn’t immediately died. Comcast began its push for a terrible
    new net neutrality law in earnest, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn was right
    on cue with a bill to make the FCC’s decision permanent. The NAACP did
    an about face on net neutrality, while CenturyLink pivoted to asking the
    FCC to police interconnection. And, shocking nobody, a FOIA request
    revealed that yet another core justification for the repeal was bullshit.

    https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/23/this-week-in-techdirt-history-december-18th-24th/

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