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I think the best way to encourage real competition is to decouple infrastructure maintenance from service provisioning. The internet infrastructure is a natural
by LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
I think the best way to encourage real competition is to decouple infrastructure maintenance from service provisioning. The internet infrastructure is a natural physical monopoly which doesn't make sense to duplicate several times over. But the current impracticality of having multiple service providers over common pipes sets up the abusive monopolization we are currently seeing. Unfortunately the behemoths seem content with the status quo of commingling those two businesses.
We're caught between the wolf and the bear, and I don't see a good way out. Seeing the FCC make a strong move to protect Net neutrality is heartening, but seeing them make a unilateral decision to assume more regulatory power makes me nervous. I really don't want to see the FCC start making decisions about content in addition to decisions about technical implementations. Regulate the frequencies, not the airwaves.
- mattmaroon 18y agoI don't see the FCC stretching for that yet. They've made no overtures toward censorship, in fact, this move is fairly anti-censorship, as it essentially prevents ISPs from engaging in that. The FCC has generally regulated content transmitted over public airwaves. And while I personally disagree with even that, they don't interfere much with stuff that comes over cables.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoThe FCC (and to some extent, Congress) has been making overtures towards granting itself power to regulate content on the private Cable networks for some years now. I'm wary of any censorship, so it's one of the things I have to bring up when looking at the FCC's new rulings here.
- mattmaroon 18y agoThat may be true, but this in particular doesn't seem to be any attempt at censorship (in fact it's the opposite) and we can't just throw the baby out with the bathwater.