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re: Net Neutrality -- What You Need To Know

Posted on 5/19/14 at 5:17 pm to
Posted by Korkstand
Member since Nov 2003
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Posted on 5/19/14 at 5:17 pm to
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Its almost a monopoly in some markets
let's just be clear. that is due to government and i want to combat this very problem

The reason the government interfered and created these monopolies is the same reason we don't have duplicate power lines (except for redundancy) and water lines. It was understood somewhat early on that having multiple phone and cable lines running everywhere was unnecessary and wasteful, especially considering the likelihood that these competing companies would merge sooner or later anyway. I typically don't like government involvement, either, but in cases of massive infrastructure it can be necessary.
Posted by Hawkeye95
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 5/19/14 at 5:24 pm to
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I typically don't like government involvement, either, but in cases of massive infrastructure it can be necessary.

its only required b.c we made it required.

I think I understand SFP's argument, its - let's remove net neutrality b.c gov't involvement is bad and if we remove all gov't involvement, it will get better. This is fine from an academic perspective but its not fine from a practical perspective. If we had actual competition in chosing ISPs, net neutrality wouldnt matter b.c those who failed to offer it would get killed in the market place. But we don't, we are stuck with one or two options in most markets.

And gov't is not going to remove the other barriers, in fact, they are creating more of them.
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