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Old 12-15-2017, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Xaanka
We didn't have net neutrality for years and everything wuz fine!!!1
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))

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