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To the folks on HN who don't vehemently, vehemently oppose a non-neutral system, your line of thinking puzzles the hell out of me. Is the idea that government r
by johnwheeler 10y ago
To the folks on HN who don't vehemently, vehemently oppose a non-neutral system, your line of thinking puzzles the hell out of me. Is the idea that government regulation is bad in all cases but corporate regulation is OK in all cases? Why? Because you've bought into free market forces making all things better no matter what?
Those forces only make things better unless they don't. To me, it's crazy that's not immediately clear.
In this case, the regulation is for keeping the system free unless you're a monopoly or part of an oligopoly. Your future chances of being in that camp are so minuscule and even smaller if you support killing off Net Neutrality. Are you fighting on behalf your future self that will likely never exist? That's arrogant and delusional.
This is not what Ayn Rand meant by espousing the public good is best served when people are self-interested. That's not the same thing as being delusional.
- protomyth 10y agoHow about I don't know if I support or oppose net neutrality because depending on the source it means something different. I would love to see an actual technical, written definition so that I could tell my Congress folks to put it in a bill.
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- lr4444lr 10y agoTo answer philosophically about it, because your question seems to me to ask for broad strokes, if you're using a resource acknowledged to have aspects of a "public good" to a quantitatively greater degree than other users, you should pay more for it. The footnote in the original article even admits as much. That's not to say I oppose net-neutrality, but to use your words, don't "vehemently, vehemently" oppose a non-neutral system.
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