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Net Neutrality, Monopoly, and the Death of the Democratic Internet

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Net neutrality is an anti-discrimination policy for the net, and we are on the verge of losing it.
"Perhaps most damaging of all, network operators would have a powerful incentive to continue to under-invest in infrastructure. Capacity constraints on their network would be transformed into profit opportunities. They would be allowed to charge for preferential access to a resource they could manage to ensure remained artificially scarce."
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