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Going beyond that, they typically have a monopoly or duopoly as an ISP, while they're subject to competition as a TV provider.

Much of net neutrality can be reduced to "don't let monopoly ISPs leverage that into a monopoly in other services".

If Verizon didn't offer TV, this wouldn't really be a problem. If there were 17 other broadband ISPs to choose from, this wouldn't really be a problem. But Verizon does offer TV and they're one of two choices for me and most of their other customers, so it's a problem.




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