re: Net Neutrality -- What You Need To Know

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what if it makes the internet cheaper for poor people?

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Well it would be a good way to keep poor people poor. Educate people, who are in general not poor, will do a better job of critically analyzing information heading their way. We need them to be informed IMHO, and this is the opposite way to do it.

And how exactly is this going to reduce the cost of internet for them? By a subsidy from netflix? HA. The internet providers have almost a monopoly, they control pricing power and they will not lower their prices. This is why we pay 2-3x for internet vs europe.

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what if it allows the continuation of "unlimited usage" plans?

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those are toast anyway. Personally I think data caps are a good way to solve the problem the cable companies claim to have (I don't believe them). I don't require my unlimited internet. Even though I am a heavy user I rarely hit my 250gb soft cap on comcast.

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i mean i can create some really evil scenarios on the flip side, like a 5-10 GB data cap on all plans (to keep costs in line)

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Sure, that would suck for a lot of people. But I would rather have data caps than deal with my information being filtered.