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It is hard to think of writing about anything this month but net neutrality. On November 21, the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) decided on a 3-2 party-line vote to end the requirement that service providers treat all traffic equally, opening the door to "pay to play" scenarios, where ISPs can shake down Internet companies for access to users.
Much has been said about the end of net neutrality, and it is hard to know how to contribute something that other commentators are not already talking about. I am one who has often expressed dismay at the current state of the Internet, where huge amounts of venture capital flows in with the goal of "doing business" and the primary form of business is spying on people. What is perhaps most striking about the FCC's decision is that it doesn't fix any of these real problems with the Internet and, instead, appears to manufacture a whole set of new problems.
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