re: Marco Rubio on Net Neutrality: ‘This Is a Solution in Search of a Problem’

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If there are monopolies in your area, it is the responsibility of your local government to tackle the issues.

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thats a fair point. it's also irrelevant because those fixes are obviously not gonna get done before this goes through. so we have a choice between one huge problem or two huge problems.

those are the only options. there is no middle ground and nothing else.

at least the monopoly issue can be worked out. the NN changes would break the internet to a degree where it would be impossible to ever fix in any realistic way. by the time that happened the dye would be cast.

74 percent of the US has either comcast or charter for an ISP



65 percent of the US also has comcast or charter for cable TV, and guess what; they dont want you watching things like Netflix online.

more and more people are cord-cutting in the US. the number of pay TV subscribers in America dropped by 1.1 million in 2015.

6% of the country now uses only the internet to watch TV, and in the 18-34 demographic, that number more than doubles to 13%.

for now, thats an option for people.

if these new rules go through, it will not be.

if they are allowed to, these companies WILL, with absolute certainty, make every streaming or video site so insufferably slow that people will just tap-out and either go back to watching TV or to a site owned by them (which, as if by some miracle, will be blazing fast).

more than anything, THAT is what this is about.

no matter what netflix or whoever tried to pay them for faster speed, they'd make more with their cable operations.

yes, they'd also love to sell every ounce of bandwidth to the highest bidder which will immediately destroy sites like this, and they'd be elated to censor every bad story about them so that you never see it (or just edit your news feed to fit in with the politics of the people who own and run them), but thats a bonus.

all we want is for every site to be treated equally, so ISPs cant dictate where we go and what we do online. that anyone can somehow disagree with that very simple request defies belief.