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Originally Posted by Xaanka
We didn't have net neutrality for years and everything wuz fine!!!1
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Because ISPs were classified, alongside other telecoms, as "common carriers", which follow net neutrality, since 1934.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commun...ns_Act_of_1934
Then Verizon sued the FCC in 2014, freeing them from this regulation, and forcing NN to be regulated more explicitly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizo..._v._FCC_(2014))
Basic research is hard.