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I'm waiting for the not so distant possibility of power companies deciding to cut service to companies who host services they don't approve of. This is not a j
by d33lio 6y ago
I'm waiting for the not so distant possibility of power companies deciding to cut service to companies who host services they don't approve of. This is not a joke.
- jedberg 6y agoLuckily, since they are utilities, they can't.
- jachee 6y agoSo, ISPs should be a regulated utility, then?
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoFor: yes, we should have regulation that ensures net neutrality, right down to "complete ignorance of the bitstream". Against: ISP needs to cover more than just the last mile, and for everything except the last mile, competition seems like a positive thing (though potentially wasteful). So I'd like to see all physical layer providers bound to absolute net neutrality (service and contracts can never be pulled based on contet), and the last mile regulated similarly to other utilities.
- three_seagrass 6y agoYes! Most developed countries regulate them as regional monopolies anyways.
- stretchwithme 6y agoI thought about that too. But utility companies ARE legal monopolies. So you DON'T have a choice of providers. Jeff Bezos wants us to think of Amazon as a utility, but this is obviously one way that it is very different.