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Thank You, Phish Fans, For Caring About Net Neutrality (theoutline.com)
If you venture over to Battle For the Net, which encourages internet users to call Congress to advocate for the preservation of net neutrality rules, you'll find something peculiar: Several of the top sites that direct calls are Phish-related. (Phish is an American rock band.) From a report: As someone on Twitter pointed out, the traffic from phish.net -- which describes itself as "a non-commercial project run by Phish fans and for Phish fans" -- appears to be coming from a pop-up message that greets visitors to the site. The same pop-up, which directs to www.battleforthenet.com, appears when you visit the site's forums and setlist pages. So, it appears that Phish fans, while in the midst of discussing their favorite extended noodling sessions, are leading the charge to save us from our impending telecom-dominated hellscape. Thanks, guys!" Phish.net sees over 400,000 unique visitors each month, according to web analytics firm SimilarWeb. In July, the website served over one million unique visitors.
Don’t worry; google, Apple and he rest will issue a statement that they are “disappointed by the decision” 20 pages deep on their sites that no one will see.
WTF are you on about??
Net neutrality has been the de facto state of the Internet since its inception nearly 50 years ago (not 20). No ISP felt brazen enough to violate the principles of the net until there were clearly-established monopolies in major markets that would allow for effective control of content by a few companies.
The government getting involved is a regulatory response to companies that are doing bad (e.g., anti-competitive) things. It is literally one of the jobs of government to regulate these things.
Through Net Neutrality (and Common Carrier status for ISPs), the government is not telling people who can do what on the Internet - it is telling companies they they can't control who does what on the Internet. As in "completely the opposite of what you said".