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> The one and only remedy to Net Neutrality is robust competition Are you saying NN is a bad thing that needs to be healed by competition? Because that is exac
by jack6e 9y ago
> The one and only remedy to Net Neutrality is robust competition
Are you saying NN is a bad thing that needs to be healed by competition? Because that is exactly what the article is arguing. More regulation generally burdens potential start-ups, creates barriers to market entry, and disproportionately favors large incumbents? That is even when the regulation is supposed to limit harm caused by large incumbents, such as post-Great Recession banking regulation that only had the effect of destroying nearly all small/regional banks and causing a massive consolidation into what were supposedly already "too-big-to-fail" banks - making them only much bigger.
If we really believe that competition is good, then we should oppose arbitrary regulatory limitations and allow market competition to create alternatives to the theoretical harms we fear from undoing the re-classification of ISPs to Title II companies. That is only if we actually think competition provides better products and services for consumers than heavy-handed regulation.
- metalliqaz 9y agoI'm saying in another world it would work, but there is no robust competition and there can't be. Not in Comcast Stadium. An open patch of grass is not automatically a level playing field. Even the mighty Google couldn't break into the game with their fiber offering. AT&T shut them down with regulatory capture.