re: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai: Why He's Rejecting Net Neutrality

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No we want a real free market that all ISPs can enter into

ISPs have always had local monopolies.

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Most Americans have access to more than one carrier

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I have it on good authority that Comcast has impossible barriers to competition

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what idiot said that??

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So, before NN you didn't have that???

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This has been explained to you and many others. So I suspect like my last response you will ignore it and keep repeating the same talking points.

Natural monopoly and consolidation exploitation started to rear its ugly head in the 2010's. When ISP's began to recognize and begin to exercise the extortionary power of their natural monopoly arrangement, near market exclusivity in many regions, and gatekeeper status to further buffer profits at the expense of consumers and internet dependent businesses. I.E. Rent-Seeking. Like Verizon throttling Netflix, Comcast extorting companies to not throttle their traffic, and the laundry list of things a poster laid out a few pages ago. This was in addition to other measures that are still in play today because of these forces like data caps. They have spent millions since NN to re-acquire the ability to turn off their default network settings and throttle and create fast lanes for monetary purposes and rent-seeking.

The argument you present is a false choice. The choice is not between what we have today and what we had in 2006 or even 2014 in terms of ISP behavior and market make-up or consumer reliance, it is between the current arrangement and going back to the period where that extortionary creep was accelerating, except under current consumer needs. Thus raising the stakes.

If you think the best course of action is to give those trustworthy ISP's the ability to start back with their creeping behavior and hope for the best, feel free to make the case. But please, drop this lazy begging the question nonsense because you are either too scared or unable to make a more fleshed out argument.

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It's actually a fair bet that in some months the bulk of my data usage is Wireless.

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Same here. In fact my mobile is better than my wireless much of the time.

We've got three carriers for broadband here. New local just jumped in

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Yep, gonna be exciting

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unfortunately you know what else I know will happen in 2030? Some 20 year old will be pissed that they want to charge him extra for the newest shite.

And when that happens I'll probably be using 2017 in hindsight as an example.

And he'll tell me but this time is different! You are just too old and don't know!

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Netflix throttled Netflix.

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In some instances, yes, earlier on in Netflix's life cycle before their business model shifted. The reverse also absolutely happened.

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Heck, Verizon even tried to throttle Youtube and Netflix again recently. Thanks to NN they will pay a price and be forced to stop, but sure, lets trust Pai that they aren't really interested in exploiting this ability. they just really, really want it back for altruistic consumer purposes.

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So what benefit are we going to see from rolling back net neutrality?

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Heck, Verizon even tried to throttle Youtube and Netflix again recently.

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if you want to use my product to reach your customers then I probably should get a say and how that goes down. If you think I don't get to say then you probably won't like how I handle it.

Welcome to business

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So what benefit are we going to see from rolling back net neutrality?

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Not have it regulated by 1935 legislation

What did you do before? You know since NN hasonly been law since 2015