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Either you do net neutrality or you do all of the following: 1) Remove "franchises" from localities. 2) Simplify right of way provisions to allow new cable to
by bb88 9y ago
Either you do net neutrality or you do all of the following:
1) Remove "franchises" from localities.
2) Simplify right of way provisions to allow new cable to be buried easily.
3) Companies with installed poles must allow fiber to be run across them. (If they don't like that, go underground)
4) ISP's must tell consumers in plain english what restrictions exist on their service. Bandwidth caps. Throttled or Blocked ports, protocols, and sites.
- wadkar 9y agoWhat about privacy? How about: 5) ISP's must tell consumers in plain English that no information will be stored or used for any other purpose than providing the user with internet connectivity.
- matt4077 9y agoNone of these have any power to mitigate the risks net neutrality is supposed to tackle, namely providers using their customer base to squeeze third parties that wish to reach them.
- bb88 9y agoIf you make the ISP market a truly competitive market then the market will come to a natural equilibrium, hopefully addressing those concerns. But as long as ISPs hold artificial monopolies in localities, it is anything but a free market.