If we could build a secure internet, there's many good things that could come out of it — and one of those things would be that we could trust it with our vote, but we haven't.

Cindy Cohn

Because these services may determine whether one can use the internet at all, those companies providing them must use their power on only very rare occasions, if at all.

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It's a win-win for them, if they prevail in court, they don't need a law. And if they lose, they have it set up to go to lawmakers and say: This is what we need, the courts didn't give it to us, so we need a new law.

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