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"Existing government regulations give certain companies oligopoly power" So your answer is additional regulations? Cato's solution for a more efficient and fre
by webXL 16y ago
"Existing government regulations give certain companies oligopoly power"
So your answer is additional regulations? Cato's solution for a more efficient and freer internet should be more regulation? I am not using "Orwellian language". Neither is Cato. When they say they want less regulation, they mean less regulation. Cato has always been opposed to Federal power not explicitly granted in the Constitution. Can you site me an example where they haven't been?
What supernatural power do you have to know the true motives of the Kochs and Cato? Just because their interests are aligned with AT&T's in this instance do not mean they work for AT&T. But I'm pretty confident if Net Neutrality wins, AT&T will still win. They have so many protections (laws and sympathetic politicians) in the government that they can only lose if the government loses power. The consumer and citizen who has benefited so much from an unregulated Internet will suffer with more regulation. Big companies don't mind regulation, because compliance and lobbying are so much more costly for their smaller competitors, mostly due to economies of scale.
- spenrose 16y agoEvaluating regulations by count is like evaluating software by lines of code. Cato is DEFINITELY using Orwellian language: http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/the-kochs-and-the-commons/ http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/the-kochs-and-the-...
- webXL 16y agoSo Kochs = Cato, now? I think they have more than two people: http://www.cato.org/people/directors.html http://www.cato.org/people/directors.html And if you're going to make a wild accusation like Cato is DEFINITELY using Orwellian language, please use a little more brain power than just posting a link to someone else's stretch that not buying into man-made climate catastrophe means you don't care about property rights as a whole.