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Originally Posted by TexaninVA
Here's a much simpler thought experiment ...
Imagine you're a centralized powerful government and that, because of a statist view of the world, wants to control everything ... especially because you think the poor rubes are not bright enough to make their own choices, plus its your duty to make everything "fair." Thus, the only solution is for the Government to take full control of the Internet but give them platitudes about how it's good for them so call it something that sounds nice, like "Net Neutrality."
Perhaps add a new slogan too , maybe something along the lines of "If you like your Internet, you can keep your Internet."
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The government did not create the term “net neutrality”.
In 2003, Columbia University law professor Tim Wu popularized the idea—and the term—in "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination" in the Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Vol. 2, p. 141, 2003.