re: Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition

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By government decree, the truckers were not permitted to charge any more or less whether they were shipping one chair or a whole houseful of furniture. Would the furniture sellers favor such a deal? Absolutely. They could call this “furniture neutrality” and fob it off on the public as preventing control of furniture by the shipping industry.

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Wait, what?

They were always allowed to charge on the quantity and the quality of the service.

To fit it in your analogy, you want to allow companies to dramatically upcharge an address simply because they see they are delievering to the rich side of town, even though they would charge less to transport the same payload further away to a less affluent area.

By the way, that moving company is legally the only allowed provider in the area of the type of service you need to move the type of furniture.


And you call that situation a “free market” scenario