Net Neutrality

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downvote and call me names.

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a-hole


done and done

I'm torn on the issue. Being for neutrality seems to support government involvement in a free market of private companies and what service they want to provide. If one company restricts access, or allows greater access to their preferred services, they should be free to do so and consumers free to move their business elsewhere. Don't we already have antitrust and similar laws to deal with monopolization of services and such?

Here is another anit-innovation post.

So you want internet delivery to be regulated by the government similar to how they regulate other utilities.

Tell me how in the last 30+ years has delivery of water or electricity to your home improved? It hasn't. Also ponder this, if you live in a municipal area (pretty much any municipal area regardless of size) you aren't getting the best price that you could get for electricity because of government intervention.

That's what you get with the internet with net neutrality.....0 competition and 0 innovation. I'm trying to figure out when you people will understand that despite the narrative big telecom actually wants net neutrality. With it they stay fat and happy like they are now (without any expenditures on R&D to improve the technology) all the while continuing to squeeze the customer for 20 more dollars per month every year to keep internet access at piss poor speeds. Not to mention the fact that big telecom basically employees the FCC which would control Net Neutrality......so what we are told Net Neutrality is right now may not be what it is in 5 years. Those scare tactic flyers with the internet service levels could become a part of net neutrality....who knows? No part of me wants this in the governments hands.

With all that said the agreements at the local level between cities, subdivisions, etc and telecom companies have to go away.

Net neutrality is not right. The way to prevent "discrimination" in bandwidth is to remove barriers to entry into the ISP market, reduce regulations, and upgrade infrastructure to allow for faster networks.

More government regulation is bad and it opens the door to abuse and taxation from the government.

When the choice is between the government with the force of law and the private sector, I almost always choose the private sector. Companies may be greedy and looking out for themselves but at least they can't force you to buy their goods and services at gunpoint like the government does with its laws and regulations.