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The Downside to Reclassifying ISPs as Title II Public Utilities
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoThere would be no need to contemplate reclassifying ISPs if they weren't run by sociopathic scumbags. I'm quite libertarian in general, but "natural monopolies" need government regulation. Or we get abuses, big and small: 1) never ending price hikes far exceeding cost or inflation 2) extortionate demands to "double dip" revenues, e.g. how Comcast is charging Netflix to deliver packets that you as Comcast's customer asked for 3) Verizon stripping STARTTLS flag from email And that's just a start. I don't know how big a message HN allows, but I'm sure we could all exceed that by enumerating our complaints. There's a reason why Lily Tomlin could say, many decades ago: We don't care, we don't have to ... We're the phone company There's a reason why Comcast is one of the most reviled companies in America.