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This is a kludge because we don't have the actual solution to keeping prices low, which is market competition. No one wants the government to tell big companie
by ineptech 3y ago
This is a kludge because we don't have the actual solution to keeping prices low, which is market competition. No one wants the government to tell big companies what to do, but when you let a monopolist take over you're stuck with either consumers getting screwed or burdensome regulation, which are both bad.
Same deal with net neutrality. In a healthy market we'd have it naturally, without laws prescribing it. We don't have a healthy market, so here we are. And there's no greater gift to the monopolists than the position you're taking.
- Snowfield9571 3y agoSo the "real" solution is market competition right to make a healthy market- how do we get that? History has repeatedly shown that large corporations hate competition because it means they have to do something to make money. Anyone who comes up with a new idea is just copied or consumed. Sounds to me like the idea that a "free market" is a healthy market is only healthy for the owners of large corporations.
- ineptech 3y agoIt's a complex topic but a popular answer is requiring the owner of the last-mile infrastructure to make it available to competitors at cost. I think that is (roughly) what places with good/cheap broadband do, e.g. South Korea.