gourimoko
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What makes you think isn't possible? If it really isn't possible based on our current infrastructure, then that is a huge relief, because having the government regulate the internet as a utility is a surefire way to ensure that we have the same infrastructure 100 years from now.
Because the way datacenters work in our country and in most Western countries, there is no single backbone. Instead, traffic is generally routed through many networks depending on their routes. It's not really feasible that the government would or could censor all of these networks. We call this multihoming.
We also don't generally use the same DNS servers, and those servers are interlinked. This is not how countries like China operate, where name servers are generally under strict government regulation. Net neutrality allows anyone to run such a server; however, the status quo (without neutrality) allows the banning of such servers for private use.
Add to that the increased usage of end-to-end encryption for almost anything and then the situation becomes even more dire.
Without net neutrality, companies would simply downthrottle this type of encrypted traffic, making it less desirable to end users. But with net neutrality, that would no longer be legal; effectively taking away the only feasible means of real internet censorship.