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re: Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition
Posted on 1/7/18 at 10:56 pm to Volvagia
Posted on 1/7/18 at 10:56 pm to Volvagia
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They just say more regulation will fix everything.
Please show me three people who have said that in support of NN.
Because I remember multiple people loudly yelling, with an occurance WITHIN this thread, that the problem is the removal of regulations without the concurrent removal of their monopolies.
What's that you say?
Ah. MORE government interference.
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And spare us the melodrama of it being big bad local government. While I’m sure that’s the case in places, and corruption and manlipulation on others, fundamentally the problem is how aggressively they will fight to protect their fiefdoms.
They are NOT above going to to the state level to legally force local governments to bend to their will.
Hmmm. Sounds like the job of the FTC.
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And absent provisions to control shite like that, you need LIGHT regulation to help protect consumers.
Ah, there is the wonderful P word because consumers can't think for themselves.
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For fricks sake, being forced to treat the transportation of a given quantity of data along a given path the same regardless of contents is NOT a business ball breaker.
Not business. Liberty.
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Posted on 1/7/18 at 11:08 pm to SoulGlo
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What's that you say?
Ah. MORE government interference.
They didn’t attain that monolopy via competition.
But rather through government intervention.
Asking for pulling that plug isn’t additional intervention.
Posted on 1/7/18 at 11:11 pm to SoulGlo
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Hmmm. Sounds like the job of the FTC.
Yep.
And they bitched and sued to declare that they were exempt from all regulation, because they fell under the definition of utilities.
Winning that court case is WHY the FCC slapped on Title 2.
Read: the government didn’t declare teleco’s as a utility. The big Teleco’s did in a court of law.
Posted on 1/7/18 at 11:17 pm to SoulGlo
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Ah, there is the wonderful P word because consumers can't think for themselves.
What?
It’s not about protecting poor consumers because they can’t think for themselves.
It’s about most houses having only one source of uncapped, stable, broadband internet. Some places are lucky to have 2. With only a handful of outliers with 3.
That’s it. If those two companies act in a way to screw their customers, then you are fricked. You will have to sacrifice your level of service in order to get out of their thumb.
And despite the thread title, NN does nothing to change competition for this. NOTHING.
If the technology is there to allow a valid alternative via wireless, net neutrality would NOT stop or slow it.
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