The net-neutrality one was further back. The latest one (prior to this) was the the BS they pulled to get r/noNewNormal (and the other anti covid "wrongthink" subs) banned. That was at the end of 2021.

That was different, though - in that it was completely obvious that the reddit admins wanted to ban those subs, too, but didn't want the negative PR from just doing it outright. Thus, the sequence of events was; the power jannies complained about it, reddit put out a joke of a PR piece about how they weren't going to ban the sub, because reddit is pro free speech, then the jannies did what they are doing now, and then reddit "caved" - i.e., did what they were going to do all along, and banned the wrongthink subs.

Unfortunately, the useful idiots think it was their protest that worked last time, when the reality is they were just used to help with the PR impact, so now they are trying it again. I seriously doubt that stuff is going to work this time, though, as this time it's not ideologically driven.

This time it's about money -> control of the site's data, and they aren't going to give that up without a fight, as it's probably got a lot of value now (AI model training, advertisement, etc). It's the same reason they keep shitting up the mobile site, in an attempt to force everyone onto their shitty app (there was another huge controvery around the end of last year about how they removed the ability to have the site stop asking you to get the app, so now it obnoxiously prompts you for it, over, and over, and over...)

In any event, I'm hoping that this finally presses reddit into being forced to do something about the power janny issue. It's utterly ridiculous how much control a couple of unhinged radical leftist activists are being allowed to exert over a huge public square.

Don't misinterpret this as me thinking reddit will get any better, and that they'll replace them with someone/something better. I just want to see the current crop get shown the fucking door.

The way I vaguely remember it was that ISPs wanted to be able to create separate "lanes" for high volume traffic like video streaming so lower volume traffic could be more consolidated. The streaming services didn't like that, so they astroturfed the commies into believing it would end the internet as we know it or some bullshit.

The real dumb thing about ’07-'18 NN advocacy fad was the ignorance of regulatory capture, the last mile, technical matters like buffer bloat, and more generally the merits of federalism/10th amendment or Bastiat's 'that which is not seen'. While antitrust is usually fake and gay, it is absolutely justified against telecoms who lobby for state legislation against municipal competition.

There was one in 2021 which actually had a good cause: to get rid of Aimee Chancellor, an admin who was at least a close pedophile ally if not a pedophile himself.