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kleinbl00  ·  2296 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The FCC just killed net neutrality

I've begun to come around to the conviction that people don't vote because we make it way too hard. Here in liberal-as-fuck Washington something like 80% of voting is done by mail. You can totally do it in California but the number of people I've talked to that are not just unaware but blown away? It's dispiriting.

Either way, I think the FCC was, is and shall be an enforcement body, not a legislative body. I can see the argument that it isn't the FCC's place to decide what is and is not a vital utility but that once that's been decided, it's their place to make sure it's dealt with fairly under law. I think we benefited when the FCC ruled it a utility and I think we all lose when they decide it isn't but I also think it was a solution of expediency, not one of durability.