re: It's glorious watching reddit, libs, and cucks melt over NN repeal

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I anxiously await the day your ISP charges you for viewing FoxNews.com but will let you view CNN for free...

What are you basing that projection on?

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he has no idea.

he's attempting to use the same fear tactics that worked on him. Except for this little beta it wasnt Foxnews...

but rather access to his favorite my little pony message board that scared him.

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I find it so strange, that when government monopolies (ACA, for example) are enforced, we are supposed to hate it, but with free market monopolies are enforced, we rejoice it as a win for capitalism

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This is just dumb imo...but maybe I'm not understanding your claim. Are you saying that you believe that--like ACA-- everyone-- will be mandated to buy a certain level of internet services or be fined $700. a year?
How else would your analogy make sense?

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You do realize that George W. Bush put into play the first NN rules waaaaay back in the mid-2000s... right?

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And??

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The Madison River Communications company was fined US$15,000 by the FCC, in 2004, for restricting their customers' access to Vonage, which was rivaling their own services.


but but but Obama.

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Not sure your example is helping you out here. Capitalism is working, and the safeguards against abuse, ie LAWS, prevailed. That's just based on your one sentence blurb without knowing the details.

Why do some of you think Government intervention in a market is a good thing this time? It's failed the public every time it's been tried.

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I am literally 12 moves ahead of you.

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you think ACA is a government monopoly.

you dont even know what you;re talking about. It's cute. Like you think your lack of real world knowledge and people you follow on twitter is somehow a desirable attribute.

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Exactly what are you referring to???

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do you not understand how an ISP could do such a thing?

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This will only increase the amount we pay for internet service. I can remember when I paid $35 a month for cable with the same thing I have now that I pay $152 a month for(not including sec network or HBO).

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DirecTV? Well, DirecTV is an excellent example of the free market at work. The latest thing over the past couple years has been cutting the cord. Many of my friends have done this, and it has saved them plenty. Big cable providers have been sweating so now they have been forced to cut costs and offer promotions to keep their existing customers. My bill recently went from $139/month to $45/month due to promotions. And though these promotions expire in 1 year, i can pretty much guarantee you there will be renewed promotions if the cord cutting trend continues.

Competition forces companies to lower their prices or lose customers.

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I am literally 12 moves ahead of you.

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Uh Huh..

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I like how so much of the reasoning people give for being anti-NN has more to do with Obama, melts, and lib tearz than any substantive benefits of repealing NN.

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This. I’m as MAGA as they come, and I have yet to hear an argument against net neutrality that was different than these:

1) Remove government from the internet
2) Stick it to Obama
3) Watch the melt
4) Well, we’ve lived without it before

None of those are merits. We need SOME government regulation. Currently, if you don’t like your internet/cable provider, you can’t do dick about it. But at least you can cancel cable and stream. (Although, they jacked up my internet cost to $70 per month for doing that. Oh goodie. I could get it for $20 per month if I bundled it with $100 worth of channels I don’t want.)

Now, I understand you’ll call it “fearmongering”, but why would the cable companies allow this now? They will either slow it down or make it expensive. It’s just common sense.

It’s not capitalism. It’s corporatism disguised as capitalism.

My hope is that Google Fiber starts making progress and dominating these blackmailing assholes.