Most interesting part of this post (to me) is to see how far the perceived importance of net neutrality has fallen on HN. 96 points in 5 hours as of this comment.
Net neutrality is still important but it no longer matters how we feel about it because our government and the courts have been bribed and captured by industry and they're intent on screwing us. This is just one of what will be a very long list of important regulations and oversight we're going to see stripped away. Might as well get used to it.
net neutrality laws giving the FCC broad powers, just isn't that important though.
Late nineties I remember one hot topic in society was prayer in school, and nowadays I hardly hear about that anymore, 9/11 had something to do with that though.
Seriously, government gets into these fads, The Next Big Thing, and, since usually a whole new group of young, idealistic, inexperienced humans comes of age, it seems like a hot button item.
It rarely is, certainly not enough for the government to "do something" about it. We as individuals can fix the problems ourselves, if allowed to.
I agree with all that but don't forget the astroturfing cycle. Net neutrality was a big fight between the ISPs and big tech companies years ago. Now that they've mostly reached a stable armistice and it's clear from variances in state to state law and policy that have arisen in the meantime that this is not a make or break issue for either side there's no money being poured onto the fire to whip people into a frenzy.
might just be bad timing. It is the day after the US holiday season.
May be by design too. 2 days ago, we got more formal reporting on how Russia may have been involved in manipulating elections. Again. But it was on New Years' Eve. (not that I expect that news to last long on HN).
If I wasn't so tired of all this falling on deaf ears, I'd chuckle at the irony.
Old posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=net+neutrality