[quote=@Dynamics] 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. [/quote] If you're going to have a government then do it right. And there are countless cases in history of the government doing single things well enough. It's not an "the government is always wrong" it's "the government is often wrong." You wouldn't be arguing against the laws preventing manual child labor in factories, and if the government came out with something actually stopping the bullshit monopolies by taking extra control over ISPs then you wouldn't be saying "oh that's automatically bad because it's the government." You're just using the government as a boogyman because it happens to align with your position this one time. Doing that often enough puts this incorrect idea that the government can't do any good into someone. This is your monthly anarchist reminder that governments exist to limit human flaws by banding together with enough threat of force that the people can't compete thereby forcing them to limit their shitty selves. You have to limit markets or there won't be a market, the only workable capitalism is regulated capitalism. The only question is whether the regulation is extensive or not, and the regulations on ISPs aren't good enough. And Trump gave half his responsibilities to his kids, what's your point? Rather than fixing what he's in charge of to do better, he's trying to get rid of something that worked and shovel off responsibility to another group. Are you really trying to say that the FTC has less work than the FCC to the point that it's a good idea to shift the work? Because that's not the case.