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> Didn't Wheeler and co. try to overturn net neutrality?

No, Wheeler and the Democratic majority passed net neutrality, defended it in court, and when they lost passed a new (and in several respects stronger) version, based in a different legal authority than relied on for the first version.

The Last Week Tonight coverage was, as I recall, about a perceived loophole in the initial draft of the second net neutrality proposal, after the first was struck down.



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