re: Trumps next target - net neutrality say Admin officials

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I like innovation and I hate government created utility monopolies.

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You do realize that stripping companies of their monopolies isn't going to happen right?

Net Neutrality helps keep them from abusing that monopoly.

Take that away, and the only way anything ever changes is if a single company builds their own network spanning every house and building in the entire US. And then uses that absolute power for the sake of the consumer and the consumer alone.

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I oppose legislation that contradicts my preferences.

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I like innovation

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Without Net Neutrality, the only players ever allowed to matter are the big wigs. If someone comes up with an innovative good idea, and the big ISP names don't like it, they can squash them easily.



Or if you want a less hypothetical example: If Net Neutrality didn't exist, we would not have the streaming and media purchases we have now. We would still be forced to buy CDs to buy music as opposed to just the songs we like. It was only the lost profits of piracy that FORCED the big companies to give the people what they wanted.

With no net neutrality, they don't need to worry about the legal problems of trying to identify and make examples out of the perpetrators. They just needed to approach the ISPs to give no bandwidth to P2P software traffic. Hell, they might have done it without prompting due to the legal concerns of their liability in a non-net neutrality world.



Don't let the big companies play games behind the scenes.