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>The free market competition among the providers is just not happening and will probably never happen in a lot of areas. It has been enough years already, fiber
by Consultant32452 9y ago
>The free market competition among the providers is just not happening and will probably never happen in a lot of areas. It has been enough years already, fiber technology is here, wireless as well, but hasn't helped enough. Time to stop pretending and using it as an excuse.
It's important to remember that the FCC is our nation's censor, and will be far more cozy to government censorship of the internet than what we're used to. You're right that free market competition hasn't been as strong as it could/should be in the ISP market, but I doubt that the FCC piling on a bunch of regulations, increasing the barrier to entry even further is going to help. I fear whatever benefits we see will be only temporary and that overzealous FCC regulators will stifle internet innovation the same way it stifled telecommunications for over a century, resulting on Bell.
TLDR: I'm generally for net neutrality, but I think the FCC taking over regulating the internet is going to have a lot of unintended consequences.
- apple4ever 9y agoExactly this. In fact, even if you support NN, you should oppose Title II NN. It literally does the opposite of what NN supporters think, plus it allows strong government regulation of the internet. I’m oppose to NN on principle (because it goes against the basic operation of the Internet and restrict innovation), but I’d much rather see a modern law passed than A law written 80 years used to implement it.