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I feel you are being disingenuous. It's long been known that the republican party is spearheading the effort to end NN, while the democratic party wishes to protect it. It was a nearly party line vote

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I was shocked to discover the same thing! It seems like the best way to preserve Net Neutrality is to vote Republican career politicians out of office.

Why would you be shocked to find such a thing? Republicans wish to remove regulation (usually). Supposedly even republican voters like net neutrality, but that has not been reflected in their votes. More so, if you ever bring up how republicans are on the warpath to kill net neutrality, you often get responses of "But both sides", despite specific things like this being hard party line votes.

Gosh, it seems strange that we apparently have such a readily-available mechanism for rescuing Net Neutrality (the only viable mechanism, apparently)--namely voting Republican career politicians out of office--but so few people are talking about it!

Wow, is it really true that you often get responses of "But both sides", despite specific things like this being hard party line votes? If so, that argument seems truly disingenuous!

Welcome to politics!

Hi! I'm not sure what you meant by that, can you explain? It seems you were implying that you have an understanding of why someone would falsely claim that "both sides" oppose Net Neutrality, when in fact the votes show that it is Republican politicians in Washington that consistently vote against Net Neutrality, while Democratic members of congress consistently vote to protect and safeguard Net Neutrality. I'd love to learn more from you.

The people willing to vote republicans out of office have been doing it already for decades. In my (extremely limited and young) experience, republican voters are fiercely loyal, and willing to actually go out and vote, while democrat voters seem to be utterly apathetic in most cases. This is compounded by the current situation where, many things cause a democrat vote to be worth less than a republican vote in actually changing power balances.

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