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Ending the enforcement of Net Neutrality was not about censoring content or subjects.


The specific worry about Net Neutrality was that ISPs would use their monopoly power to censor specific sources and/or self-preference their own businesses. It's something that should have been expanded to large online platforms rather than being disposed of entirely.


As you said, it was a worry, but ending Net Neutrality about enforcing government censorship was never even an argument being made at all by any sides of the issue.


Justice Brett Kavanaugh[0] argued that Net Neutrality specifically violated the 1st Amendment because Comcast should decide what speech they do and don't retransmit.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/01/judge-argues-net-neutralit...




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