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From what I've read Net Neutrality will do anything. The absence of it will take everything you don't like about interacting with the Internet 10 times worse.
by hackeraccount 9y ago
From what I've read Net Neutrality will do anything. The absence of it will take everything you don't like about interacting with the Internet 10 times worse. If it's in effect however the everything will be cheaper, faster and more free then it's possible to imagine.
If it's this simple why are we limiting this line to just networking on the Internet? Why not car regulation - every car will get 100 mpg, cost $100 and drive you to a hospital should be the need arise.
- TheDong 9y agoThe equivalent of "net neutrality" for cars would be "road neutrality"; any car can drive on any road, regardless what the contents are. If you have a dog in the back seat, you can still drive on every road. Cat? Same deal. If you have some railroad tracks in your trunk, which obviously means you might be competing with the roads, well, you can still drive on them. That's the more "honest" comparison.
- mindslight 9y agoA more compelling exploration of that analogy would be the state taking land to build a road through eminent domain, and then selling or long term leasing to a private company to build a toll road. The corporate owner of that road then signs an agreement with certain car companies (say Chevy) to have discounted tolls for that brand of car, while raising tolls on the other brands to prohibitive levels.