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Correction: "Most people currently have..." In the long run, the only barrier to competition is regulatory capture, which is much harder to overcome than short
by pvnick 9y ago
Correction: "Most people currently have..."
In the long run, the only barrier to competition is regulatory capture, which is much harder to overcome than short-term problems like there not being enough competition. Technical challenges are a lot easier to solve than regulatory challenges, which 100% of the time increase the barrier to entry by, among other things, raising the cost of compliance (have to pay more lawyers, accountants, etc to make any moves in the market).
- anigbrowl 9y agoRegulatory capture seems to be much less of a problem at the FCC than it does at the state level, where ISP lobbyists have convinced various state governments to forbid the construction of things like municipal broadband networks. Get back to us after you've solved the smaller problem.
- pvnick 9y agoI think the influence that you and I both have to address either issue is limited to posting comments on threads that get flagged off the front page of a website whose readership is limited to nerds in Silicon Valley.
- anigbrowl 9y agoI move in other circles besides this one. I'm not sure what the point of your comment is; you want to promote your anti-federalist views, but when those are challenged you back off and say individuals are powerless to impact anything? Sounds hypocritical to me.
- s73ver 9y ago"In the long run, the only barrier to competition is regulatory capture" Not true. There's the fact that for many places, they just can't support multiple choices for things like that. There's the equipment, which is extremely expensive anyways. There's running lines. And, quite frankly, when you say that regulations should be removed, you're basically saying that those in less profitable markets, where there likely wouldn't be much competition even without regulation, don't deserve to have net neutrality.