# Court strikes down net neutrality. Who's on the side of the angels here?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 14, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-strikes-down-net-neutrality-whos-on-the-side-of-the-angels-here/678801 "2014-01-14T19:04:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-strikes-down-net-neutrality-whos-on-the-side-of-the-angels-here/678801/121 "2014-02-05T19:25:45Z")

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> [@RitterSport](#):
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> That’s already been debunked:

Sort of. No verification. Only “No, we didn’t do that”.

But I’ll take their word for it for now, since a single data point is questionable, but I’d be interested to see either Verizon or the customers post more of these types of speed numbers and have everybody check each other.

In the meantime, it looks like House Democrats have [introduced net neutrality legislation](http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/03/democrats-introduce-open-internet-preservation-act-to-restore-net-neutrality/), but it appears likely to get torpedoed by the Republicans.

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-strikes-down-net-neutrality-whos-on-the-side-of-the-angels-here/678801/122 "2014-02-05T20:26:42Z")

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Why would a British periodical be investigating Verizon?

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-strikes-down-net-neutrality-whos-on-the-side-of-the-angels-here/678801/123 "2014-02-06T21:34:00Z")

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> [@Farin](#):
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> P2P file sharing apps are fun and all, but they aren’t anonymous, no matter what people think or say.

Who are the idiots claiming they are anonymous? Anonymizing apps would have no purpose if they were. And I’ve seen those around since 2005, at least.

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**Author:** ![Farin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@Farin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farin)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/court-strikes-down-net-neutrality-whos-on-the-side-of-the-angels-here/678801/124 "2014-02-06T22:59:46Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Who are the idiots claiming they are anonymous? Anonymizing apps would have no purpose if they were. And I’ve seen those around since 2005, at least.

The person posting retarded information on Tumbler from [Leaper’s post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17065791&postcount=117).

> [@Leaper's Some Tumbler Guy](#):
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> These P2P file sharing systems came bundled with viruses and trojans which were used to gather your IP addresses, your name, your location, and so much more!

Because it takes a trojan horse and viruses to gather your _IP Address_! 😃

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