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The Internet is about to become worse than T.V. 
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This is kind of important
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An internet without network neutrality will look a lot like television does now. You'll depend entirely on your cable company to get broadcasts, and they will only deliver their handpicked channels in their cable packages. There will probably be a little room for the web equivalent of public access television, but it will be so underfunded and slow to load that almost nobody will see it.

Yes, the article is US-centric, but if this happens in the States, do you really think it'll not happen over here?
I suspect whatever authority the European Court (or whatever) can exert over the course would be the only recourse to 'net neutrality.

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Wasn't this being discussed a couple of years ago?

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Overblown panic-hype by the people who brought you the wisdom of crowds and other net 2.0 silliness.


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This covers a lot of bases
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27161270

It's the sort of staggering, ill-thought-out, greedy idiocy that makes you want to shout, 'Oh, my Jesus fcuk!', before punching yourself in the skull.

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