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Maybe running with net neutrality should be the next ISP innovation? It's clear that there's enough consumer market demand that they could make money from it, I
by cjslep 9y ago
Maybe running with net neutrality should be the next ISP innovation? It's clear that there's enough consumer market demand that they could make money from it, I don't understand where the ISP's tunnel vision of "only way to innovate is if net neutrality is killed" comes from.
- benlorenzetti 9y agoIf there is a law or federal rule, that usually implies there are not sufficient market forces behind whatever we still think should/shouldn't be done.
- orthecreedence 9y agoOr it implies that the public wants things a certain way and they are tired of battling it out with their idiotic providers (especially in a market where most people only have one option). Market forces do not affect large telecoms.
- benlorenzetti 9y agoYou're version is more specific. Perhaps I was too general and clunky.
- bvinc 9y agoConsumer demand is not a factor. ISPs in the US have a monopoly over areas and can effectively prevent new competitors from coming in. There is no innovation. The only plan is to extract the most amount of money from customers while spending the least amount of money to maintain the system. Killing net neutrality allows them to extract even more money from both sides: customers and content providers.