<story><title>Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/06/new-mozilla-poll-americans-political-parties-overwhelmingly-support-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubano</author><text>Who, when asked, wouldn&amp;#x27;t support &amp;quot;Net Neutrality?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;i&gt;sounds&lt;/i&gt; like something everyone should be for..&amp;quot;hey, Net Neutrality hell yeah and we shouldn&amp;#x27;t club baby seals either!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;As always, its the policies that really matter...having a catchy must-be-for-it-for-virtue-signaling moniker hardly explains what going on in the back rooms where the legislation is being written.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the &amp;quot;Affordable Care Act&amp;quot;...who doesn&amp;#x27;t want affordable-fucking-care?&lt;p&gt;We are all currently learning, however, that this &amp;quot;care&amp;quot; is hardly that and &amp;quot;affordable&amp;quot; is nowhere in sight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>int_19h</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s like the &amp;quot;Affordable Care Act&amp;quot;...who doesn&amp;#x27;t want affordable-fucking-care? We are all currently learning, however, that this &amp;quot;care&amp;quot; is hardly that and &amp;quot;affordable&amp;quot; is nowhere in sight&lt;p&gt;The polls show the opposite of what you&amp;#x27;re claiming, though. If they ask people whether they support ACA by name, the result is lower than when they ask whether they support specific provisions and programs that together add up to ACA.</text></comment>
<story><title>Americans from Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/06/new-mozilla-poll-americans-political-parties-overwhelmingly-support-net-neutrality/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cubano</author><text>Who, when asked, wouldn&amp;#x27;t support &amp;quot;Net Neutrality?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It &lt;i&gt;sounds&lt;/i&gt; like something everyone should be for..&amp;quot;hey, Net Neutrality hell yeah and we shouldn&amp;#x27;t club baby seals either!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;As always, its the policies that really matter...having a catchy must-be-for-it-for-virtue-signaling moniker hardly explains what going on in the back rooms where the legislation is being written.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the &amp;quot;Affordable Care Act&amp;quot;...who doesn&amp;#x27;t want affordable-fucking-care?&lt;p&gt;We are all currently learning, however, that this &amp;quot;care&amp;quot; is hardly that and &amp;quot;affordable&amp;quot; is nowhere in sight.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tinalumfoil</author><text>&amp;gt; Most Americans do not trust the U.S. government to protect access to the Internet&lt;p&gt;Net neutrality is regulated by the FCC, a government agency under Donald Trump. By this article&amp;#x27;s own admission people have very little faith in the government. There&amp;#x27;s an interesting sentiment on HN that more regulation is the correct response to distrusting the government but I&amp;#x27;d imagine lessening executive power is the more common response.</text></comment>