Rate the similarity of the following two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing"?

Entrenched interests are positioning themselves to control the network's chokepoints and they are lobbying the FCC to aid and abet them.
It may be dying because entrenched interests are positioning themselves to control the Internet's choke-points and they are lobbying the FCC to aid and abet them."
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