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The ONLY cure for bad government influence is better government influence. There's a reason that governments are a thing. Regulating horrible people is exclusively the job of a government. 
Except that's not true. If you read that from the perspective of a lawyer, you'd notice that it doesn't block those thing. The way that's going to be immediately attacked is "They can block it so long as it isn't anti competitive." It's not going to stop anything. Not only that, but companies were already banned from anti-competitive arrangements and they just set up maps of where one company could work and the others wouldn't compete there. This isn't good enough to take away the current protections for. 
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It's really not. I figured that you of all people would agree that whenever the government gets involved, it makes things worse. We need to roll back the governmental regulations to the point that there can be actual competition, and between the FCC and the FTC, only one of those is a trust-buster.
Literally all net nueturality regulations in place can be argued the same way because it's an inherently non-linear kind of system. Unless the law is specifically written by network engineers with very precise goals in mind, there will always be a way to slip through the cracks. That's why that provision wasn't written broad enough for the ISPs to slip through; rather, it was written broad enough for the FTC to actually do their job. Laws aren't contracts—in courts, laws are upheld by the spirit rather than the letter; this is the government actually doing something they can anti-trust companies for because the subjectivity [i]allows[/i] the FTC to stop these things. Also, note that Pai is the chairman of the [i]FCC[/i]. He's giving up the influence he has over the internet to another organization he has no control over.