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Healthier in what way? Active government involvement in theUK has also led to a lot more invasive content restrictions than we've seen in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the...




"Active government involvement" isn't what we're talking about here, though; merely a rule that broadband infrastructure has to be freely sublet to resellers, producing interesting things like this[1].

Title II doesn't force the government to care about what's going through the pipes; nor did the UK's broadband law. That was entirely a separate bout of moralizing, that was no easier or more difficult to enact or enforce given the broadband law.

[1] https://www.icuk.net/broadband-reseller/broadband.asp




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