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That's fair but you also have to ask what's in it for them to screw their users in this way. Why would an ISP want to prevent some small, unrelated startup fro
by mediocrejoker 9y ago
That's fair but you also have to ask what's in it for them to screw their users in this way.
Why would an ISP want to prevent some small, unrelated startup from gaining exposure?
- rainbowmverse 9y agoGoogle was a small, unrelated startup for a long time. Google Fiber was a real threat to the ISPs, but they already had a lock on municipalities and states. Some new upstart might find a way through that. Why risk it when they can just keep them from gaining traction in the first place?
- AnthonyMouse 9y ago> Why would an ISP want to prevent some small, unrelated startup from gaining exposure? Once the startup takes all the risk to demonstrate market demand, the ISP can come in with their own offering and use the ISP monopoly to destroy the competition.
- creaghpatr 9y agoYou mean like Google or Facebook?
- saghm 9y agoIt sounds like you aren't a fan of how Google and Facebook operate from that comment; I don't think allowing _more_ companies to act like that is a very good remedy to that problem
- DubiousPusher 9y agoTelecos across the board are parts of massive conglomerates with fingers in every pie. There are virtually no "unrelated" startups.