You ' re free to express your opinion but you can ' t force anyone to publish it for you . <| sep |> Nexus 6 P 2 INT 2 Attack and Saving Rolls against IOassholes <| sep |> You ' re not wrong about the conflating , but the sentiment is not off base . If Netflix , NETFLIX ? !?! can be considered a utility as a content provider , then surely the pipes Netflix is delivered over should be a utility as well . It doesn ' t pass the sniff test otherwise . They are making the utility claim to get around the ban on taxing the internet and by their logic then ALL content delivery companies are utilities and can be taxed . But somehow the last mile infrastructure provider ISP is NOT a utility ? ? So you don ' t get to choose is productive because that is exactly what they should do , choose what is and is not a utility , apply the rules uniformly and get on with their day .