re: FCC Votes in Favor of Net Neutrality Rules, Broadband Service is Now a Utility

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So then you will switch providers, and if they all do it, someone will step in to fill the demand and/or developments in technology will come about to give people what they want

Big brother policing them is the wrong way to go.

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NN was something I grappled with a long time because it flies in the face of free market thinking. /r/Anarcho_Capitalism hates it. But you have to realize that this is not the free market we’re talking about here. It’s government sponsored monopolies. The reason we have government sponsored monopolies in the cable tv/broadband industry is because of redundancy. Right now, Cable co’s don’t lease their networks out to other businesses (think of MVNO’s in the cell industry like Cricket, Ting, Virgin Mobile, Boost who ride on top of ATT, Verizon, Sprint). So the only way to compete with a Cox or Suddenlink is to lay all of your own cable which is a huge headache (tearing up roads, years to build) even if the municipality lets you do it (they don’t want the traffic jams, etc created by laying cable, especially if it’s already there). That’s one of Google Fiber’s biggest hurdle, fighting the telephone pole owners for the right to lease space for their fiber. I believe these rules will force Cable Co’s to lease their network to competitors at fair market rates so you don’t have to have 3 different cable networks all on top of each other to have a choice between 3 different Cable Co/ISP’s.

So in a world that forces us to have these govt sponsored monopolies, NN and Title II regulation is the best solution that can pass IMO. It will allow more competition and keep ISP’s honest.

The comparison’s to the Affordable Healthcare Act are enraging “Obamacare for the internet”. JFC, how stupid are American’s to buy this shite. “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor = If you like your ISP, you can keep your ISP” WELL WE DON’T frickING HAVE A CHOICE WHAT ISP WE GET NOW.

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