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    Commentary: Republicans discover the joy of regulating the internet

    by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times Mar 20, 2019 3 minutes

    Every time I hear a Republican complain about Facebook, Twitter or Google, I think, "Wait - aren't you the 'hands off the internet' party?"

    The GOP, after all, has been the main obstacle to net neutrality regulations, the rules on broadband providers that are designed to protect the internet from meddling by its gatekeepers. When Republicans took control of the Federal Communications Commission in 2017, they quickly erased almost all the net neutrality rules adopted by their Democratic predecessors, then renounced the commission's power to stop broadband providers from doing ... anything.

    Now contrast that bold

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