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Jeff Bezos' WaPo reeling from losses and 'internal drama' as Trump returns to DC: report
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What's stopping all of these journalists that are leaving in protest from starting a journalism cooperative and splitting their work amongst themselves and taking votes on what should and should not be included in the news?
Divide and conquer. By destroying large journalistic institutions, or converting them into voice boxes for nationalistic propaganda and policiy, the criticism of large corporate and governmental institutions becomes diluted and harder to find. The eventual plan is probably to use the dissolution of net neutrality to heavily limit access to dissenting voices from independent journalists and/or just people making dissenting content, effectively shadow banning anyone who poses a threat to the state and corporate power, while also preventing potential future rival voices and political parties from gaining a foothold in the minds of the populace at large.
Net Neutrality has nothing to do with viewpoint. It refers to IP source and destination; e.g. AT&T can’t cap Netflix but let their affiliate Max through.
Just jumbling up a bunch of words you heard, that’s solid reasoning!
Replace "Netflix" and "Max" with "Substack" and 'Washington Post" and what you wrote absolutely applies to viewpoint.
It really doesn’t, those services don’t produce terabytes of daily traffic that needs congestion management.
Don’t just make things up. The idea of Network Neutrality is clearly defined, and doesn’t involve viewpoint.
Here's some of those clear definitions
Cambridge Dictionary: "Net neutrality is the idea that Internet providers must treat all content equally."
Brittanica: "net neutrality, principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) should not discriminate among providers of content."
"Traffic congestion" is the reasoning ISPs use to defend subverting net neutrality, but it still results in certain viewpoints being favored over others. If Spectrum decides to throttle Fox News and not CNN, it doesn't matter if their reasoning is that Fox News uses more bandwidth, the result is still that the viewpoint that Fox espouses is throttled while that of CNN is not. Sure it's conjecture that is or will happen, but it is the case that the doctrine of net neutrality is what is standing in opposition to it.