re: NN why not FTC regs?

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And im sure if Netflix started charging extra for certain shows people would be up in arms about it

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So would we demand the government regulate them? And why don’t they do that now if they are not regulated?

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They wont lose customers because they are the only option.

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That’s because governments have granted monopolies. Would be better to open things up. We have several choices in wireless.

Because its bad for business and there are other ways to get internet shows than to pay for them

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Because its bad for business and there are other ways to get internet shows than to pay for them

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The only place to legally get Netflix original content is to pay for Netflix so there is no reason they couldn’t just charge more for those shows. Just as you suggest ISPs can just start charging you more to access certain sites. Just it would be bad for Netflix if they charge more so it would be bad for the ISP. Now I understand that is some locations choices are limited, that is due to government protecting/granting monopolies. We could allow more competition to counter act this. Also we don’t know what the future will bring as far how we can get access to the internet maybe it’s wireless or someone else. In the 90s when people were freaking out about Microsoft no one could have predicted Android and iOS. And lastly if the ISPs did as you say they will then we could always revisit or better yet have the body charged by the Constitution to “regulate commerce” actually do that instead of these unelected agencies

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Why should I have to pay the same rate as someone who demands more speed to view their pirated content?

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I pay for Speed and Data Usage. You dont stream very much so you dont have to pay for extra data usage and you also dont have to pay for the speeds that I do

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And this is why I say that issue should be decided upon by a vote of our elected representatives and not by a court or an appointed commission.

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Well the FTC and FCC get their authority from Congress, which is where the common carrier exemption comes from.

I'm 100% for letting Congress decide ( ) and get something passed ( ) on NN and on local and state government red tape.

However, I see that as a reason to delay this repeal and not as the reason to eliminate the current net neutrality protections. Roll back the protections after, not before, Congress can decide on it.

I'm 100% for deregulation of ISPs and the internet once actual competition and choice exists for consumers in the USA. That's what the FCC should have been focusing on, but instead they've actually sided with local governments and the big ISPs in those disputes under Pai. I think they'd have the Constitutional authority to do so too under the commerce clause specifically protecting interstate commerce.

Hopefully the new mesh and spectrum technologies being developed allow for cheaper costs of installing door to door network infrastructure. Currently though, it's naive to believe small business and new competition can exist or thrive with the barriers to entry including legal battles with the incumbent ISPs on the local scale.

Someone on the OT brought up Texas power deregulation as an example of why deregulation works. However, this was accomplished via regulations such as creating price floors and forcing incumbent providers to lease out their utility lines (a major issue with new ISPs is accessing utility polls - Google struggled with this).

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This was in the political works way before 2014, man. Don't overlook where this whole thing comes from.

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It's been "enforced" this way since 2005 under the bush admin and the BitTorrent issue.

Other than that, hard to argue with those facts you presented, man