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It depends what your values are. To my values most or all of Europe has better internet. A few things I care about: - No bandwidth caps. - ISPs competing to
by proverbialbunny 6y ago
It depends what your values are. To my values most or all of Europe has better internet. A few things I care about:
- No bandwidth caps.
- ISPs competing to offer the best service in a system similar to how health care is done in Japan.
- Being able to switch ISPs without issue.
- Being able to run my own hardware instead of being required to use their routers.
- Net neutrality. I pay for gigabit duplex but if I'm not uploading to a fast lane I'm limited to 10mbps, or 1% of what I pay for. This is terrible for VPNing for work, and other work related tasks.
- eru 6y agoNet neutrality is brilliantly named, but it's not a good regulation to force on providers for various reasons. See eg https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regulation/2012/6/v34n4-4.pdf https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/regu... (However, a provider deciding on some kind of 'neutrality' by itself and offering that as a selling point to customers is perfectly fine.0
- gman83 6y agoLol Cato finds regulation is bad, you don't say?
- piva00 6y agoLinking to Cato is like linking to those "Ludwig van Mises"-inspired think-tanks. I don't think it's a reputable source for analysis, their bias is obviously apparent and not necessarily based in reality, it's an ideology. Having one of the Koch brothers as founder just adds fuel to the fire...
- nickpp 6y agoPretty equivalent to linking to the New York Times or CNN, I would say. Their overall leftist bias is pretty obvious but you just read the article and judge for yourself.
- piva00 6y agoI live in Sweden, saying that CNN or NYT are left-wing is a terrible joke to my ears...
- nickpp 6y agoWell, I live in an ex-communist country and I jokingly call NYT "Pravda on the Hudson". The similarities to the opinions in the old Soviet newspaper are uncanny. The world is much larger than just Sweden.
- proverbialbunny 6y agoCommunism is authoritarian, the opposite of the liberal Democrats in the US.
- nickpp 6y agoYou wouldn’t know it by reading their periodicals: cancel culture, right vs wrong thinking, evil multinationals, class struggle against the exploiting "rich", the inhuman capitalism, the wonderful socialist utopias and it goes on and on...
- proverbialbunny 6y agoThe world is a large place. With 7.8 billion people in the world today there is bound to be 1 or 2 who go off the deep end. To say those represent the majority is insulting. It's like you're saying, "You wouldn’t know it about the US right wing by reading their periodicals: antisemitic, pro-fascist, anti humans rights, pro totalitarian, and more."
- piva00 6y agoThis is quite rant-ish. There is a class struggle, there is a rich powerful few who can use their leverages to affect millions of people that have almost no voice. What is your point? For someone complaining about divisiness you seem to be quite deep down into the rabbit hole.
- three14 6y agoThe linked analysis is rather outdated - it mentions that if video over IP becomes popular, perhaps the conclusions might change. And the article itself points out that it might be important for ISPs to feel the threat of net neutrality regulations. It's hard to claim that the ISP market, at least in many locations, isn't subject to plenty of market failures that need some kind of remedy.
- Tor3 6y agoExactly.. I'm on 1Gbit down/1Gbit up at home, there are no caps, and the full speed is always available. It's not throttled, it's equally fast at all times as far as I can tell. It's not expensive, there are no hidden charges. I use my own router (though I'm also using the equipment that came from the provider, for the fiber-to-Ethernet part). All of this I could get in Japan years ago, we're finally catching up in Europe.