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Net neutrality was never about deplatforming, due process, or censorship. It was about ISPs prioritizing traffic or providing free bandwidth for their own services and throttling or charging extra fees for third party services (e.g. Time Warner providing access to their own streaming service without counting towards your bandwidth cap, but not doing the same for Netflix).

It was an economic issue, not a political one.

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>It was an economic issue, not a political one.

The two can't be disentangled. Woke censorship is often justified through economic self-interest nowadays. Do you really believe activists 20 years ago would be placated if ISPs had simply promised to throttle only based on politics rather than economics?

Hosting content and distributing it are different things (in the same way that printing letters for someone is very different to operating a mail service carrying everyone's letters).

This is the point that Cloudflare is making in TFA.

You are correct. It should have had bipartisan support.

But, of course, it had to be politicized. And few understood the issue, so they made up their own straw men.

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