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The ISPs are not trying to help you diversify your content sources, they want in on the content provider's take. Ideally they want to be the content monopoly th
by guelo 10y ago
The ISPs are not trying to help you diversify your content sources, they want in on the content provider's take. Ideally they want to be the content monopoly themselves. Barring that they'll insert themselves in the middle as the gatekeeper and kingmaker charging both sides of the market. Either way consumers lose.
- austincheney 10y agoNo of course not. You have to do that on your own.
- studentrob 10y agoShouldn't cost you extra money to get normal speed access to the same content you have high speed access to today.
- austincheney 10y agoThere is a lot that shouldn't happen when the primary goal is limited competition.
- guelo 10y agoThe point is that if given the chance the ISPs won't let you do it on your own.
- austincheney 10y agoSure, but let's not confuse a bad situation with a non-existent hypothetical hyper-extreme.