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I agree with your points in broad strokes, so please don't think I'm being argumentative when I point out one quibble I have with your post: The lack of Net Ne
by torstenvl 9y ago
I agree with your points in broad strokes, so please don't think I'm being argumentative when I point out one quibble I have with your post:
The lack of Net Neutrality is not an example of "market-based regulation."
Although government regulation can, for better or worse, hamper the operation of a free market, that isn't the case here. The point of Net Neutrality is to keep Internet infrastructure free from being feudalized. A feudal government where massive policy changes impacting people's everyday lives are decided by power players and their arcane web of alliances is still a government, and it is definitely not one conducive to a free market.
Anyone who favors free markets cannot oppose Net Neutrality. It would be like opposing antitrust laws and claiming to be free market.
- golemotron 9y agoWe already have the feudalism. Facebook/Twitter/Google/Apple. They have tremendous lock-in on the current market. Your content is theirs, and their policy is your law.