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"Some markets may have just one cable provider, but phone companies offer increasingly comparable internet access" No, they don't. Not at all. I am by some mir
by fhood 9y ago
"Some markets may have just one cable provider, but phone companies offer increasingly comparable internet access"
No, they don't. Not at all. I am by some miracle grandfathered into an almost affordable unlimited data plan, and even it gets throttled after a certain limit.
- hackeraccount 9y agoWould net neutrality do anything about throttling? Should it?
- hackeraccount 9y agoWhat affect would net neutrality have on increasing competition? I am deeply skeptical that it would have a good impact and strongly suspect that any regulation created would be designed to reduce competition. See airline regulation which did a lot of things and had a lot of goals but ended up being used by the industry to keep new players out of the market place.
- dragonwriter 9y agoNet neutrality would preserve content for online services by preventing ISPs from acting as service gatekeepers; it would have minimal effect on ISP competition, which itself was minimal even before the effort at general regulation rather than slapping-down individual egregious violations in the pre-2010 case-by-case regime.