> Government handed comcast monopoly over the wire to your door. Now we're sweeping the problem under the rug by policing what goes down the wire. > The way to

> Government handed comcast monopoly over the wire to your door. Now we're sweeping the problem under the rug by policing what goes down the wire. > The way to get more choices is to let anyone compete to be your ISP, by liberating the wire. While he's killing net neutrality, Pai is also doing what he can to limit broadband competition. So, thanks to him, we're getting the worst of both worlds: less consumer-friendly regulation AND less competition. * FCC removes competition requirement from Charter-TWC merger conditions (https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/3/15161456/fcc-charter-merger-condition-overbuild-reversed https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/3/15161456/fcc-charter-merge...) * ISPs who don’t want competition get good news from FCC chair: FCC to kill merger condition that required competition in 1 million locations (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/isps-who-dont-want-competition-get-good-news-from-fcc-chair/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/isps-who-dont-wa...) * One broadband choice counts as “competition” in new FCC proposal (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/one-broadband-choice-counts-as-competition-in-new-fcc-proposal/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/one-b...)