re: FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December

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When there isn't healthy competition and the barriers to entry are enormously high the only realistic solution is government intervention.

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Which will exponentially increase the barriers to entry.

No. I'm not going to re-explain it because it's been covered by multiple people in this thread.

The fact you don't understand why is a given.

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Which will exponentially increase the barriers to entry.

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It will, in a way, serve as an anti-competitive measure, but it's necessary to protect content delivery in the current environment. I already explained this part to you

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Which will exponentially increase the barriers to entry.

No. I'm not going to re-explain it because it's been covered by multiple people in this thread.

The fact you don't understand why is a given.

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It doesn't increase barriers to entry in any significant way because they are near infinitely high as is. (Evidenced by the lack of competition in the pre-NN era)

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That is competition.

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we have regional ISP monopolies.

for "adequate competition", the biggest obstacle in starting up an ISP is getting access to poles/lines.

it's all heavily regulated/gated at the municipal level.

if every business had equal claim to access, the only major obstacle left is the monetary investment of adding additional lines alongside existing ones, and there is a lot of capital that could make that happen.

like Comcast can afford to put lines in right next to Verizon's, but most areas contract out/license the access to just one or the other.

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It doesn't increase barriers to entry in any significant way because they are near infinitely high as is. (Evidenced by the lack of competition in the pre-NN era)

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Net neutrality adds 1 foot to a one hundred foot wall. Shorty doesn't get that

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The guy worked at a Verizon store selling Otter Boxes so he knows more about NN than we do. You should respect him a little more IMO.

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You've already proved multiple times you have no idea of what you're talking about.

"Kodi is a group of websites!!!"



GTFO of here.

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Socialists primarily worry about who controls the means of production.

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I know what Socialism is for Christ's sake.

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That you are retreating to its use as a pejorative is what it is

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I don't mean it as a pejorative as much as I'm simply pointing out that capitalists don't worry about "should" in market results.

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I can admit my education in business isn't up to yours, but I still think you aren't seeing what those bloodsuckers at these ISPs will do.

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Actually, I COMPLETELY see what they will do.

You'll notice that at no point in this thread have I ever denied that the ISPs will, in fact, try to manipulate the market to their advantage.

Now that I've pointed that out, slow your roll and recognize the WHY of my position.

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has everything to do with how much I despise the providers

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Interestingly, I despise them too. And, NN helps KEEP them entrenched.

I'm going to step away from the net for a second.

There was a time in America when the vast majority of work was in farming. Off the top of my head, as recently as about 1950, still well over half was in farming.

If I'd talked to the typical American in 1950 and said, "you know, less than 10% of Americans will be able to get jobs in farming in the year 2010", I suspect almost everyone I talked to would drop in to a cold sweat panic.

Why? Because they could ONLY see their day. Hence, you tell them, "X is going to go away". And, Y doesn't even exist yet. They can't conceptualize what Y is and.........best part here........NEITHER can the people who tell them it will be OK.

That's right. Even the capitalists in the room in 1950 could NOT have said, "here's specifically HOW the market will solve the problem". If you'd gotten the 100 best minds in business in 1950 to try and predict the 2010 employment breakdown, they not only would have been wrong........they'd have been HILARIOUSLY wrong.

But, their basic premise would have been correct. Meanwhile, their opponents would have been clamoring for government regulation to solve the problem. Which, would have exacerbated it.

What I'm telling you is, my premise is correct. And no, I can't tell you what "right" will look like 10 years from now.

But, alas, I have a pretty solid idea of what it looks like when you break the market.

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It will, in a way, serve as an anti-competitive measure, but it's necessary to protect content delivery in the current environment. I already explained this part to you

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And, I already explained this to you actually.

This is literally the errant reason for every stupid regulation.........ever

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There is nothing ironic in what I said. Do you understand what the term telecommunications and it's industry area entail? I'll give you a hint...it's not just your landline telephone service.

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Oh, I get what telecom is. Internet is absolutely telecom. Ajit Pai just doesn't agree with that.

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Where? And don't link to some town in BFE Montana either.

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