i've been calling senators' offices from republican states left and right. the office worker for the senator in kansas informed me that repealing net neutrality "levels the playing field." i didn't understand his argument well enough to counter it, unfortunately...it just didn't make sense and I thought perhaps I was missing something.
You're not missing anything. It literally doesn't make any sense.
Its a talking point the ISPs have been using for the last few years, that they're "Pro-Net Neutrality, but want it enforced differently, legally." Its a propaganda tactic in that it is both factually incorrect, misleading, and is a response created to make the public lose interest in what sounds like a nuanced debate. ISPs arguments against net neutrality have all, repeatedly, fallen apart every time this has come to the political forefront; they simply do not have a leg to stand on in the US.
The only reason we're going through this again, is because Trump and the Republican Party put a stooge in charge of the FCC. This has, incredibly, somehow become a partisan issue with each political party taking explicit stances for or against NN.
