FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues

Dashrender

@coliver said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

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@kelly said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

Fundamentally repealing Net Neutrality is the right thing to do...if ISPs were not monopolies or duopolies in the majority of the country. If freedom to compete actually existed in the market, then removing regulations would spur growth. Unfortunately competition does not exist currently, and won't exist after repeal. The FCC is addressing the wrong problem with this.

I'm not sure that I agree - even in an open market, do you want infrastructure suppliers choosing what you RECEIVE?

For example, UPS and FedEx don't choose to deliver some types of products or from different companies - everything costs the same and comes at the same speed. They don't choose to make certain vendors unable to deliver to you or make some packages slow to discredit those vendors and it would be good for no one if they did.

Well, someone does have to pay to get their packages to their destination faster. Because there is competition in the market those prices are pretty reasonable and there are alternatives. If internet service was truly competitive then you could have a scenario where a Comcast charged for everything under the sun and smaller ISPs could come in and offer open internet for less and take customers forcing Comcast to change their offerings or lose customers. But it isn't truly competitive. Thus why I think the FCC is addressing the wrong thing.

One of the many reasons I'm for local loop unbundling. Let the municipalities manage the last mile and allow ISPs to competitively access the consumer.

If our roads are any sort of indicator of quality I might pass on this option.

You state this as if a Comcast road would be better? NO way.

Yeah, has anyone else seen the condition of the privatized toll routes? Forget tire-eating potholes, those are just the starting point!

If those were that bad, why are drivers still using them? I take it the cost of replacing stuff hasn't out weighted the cost of driving alternative routes.

Toll roads in NY, PA, and Florida (the only places I've driven on them) are not as good but definitely not as bad as the publicly maintained roads. Seems hit and miss depending on what municipality you're in.

The toll roads I drive in Chicagoland are in general pretty awesome. I don't recall them ever being bad.

Kelly

@momurda said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

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@momurda said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

Im not sure why this is even a debate. The argument for NN was won a century ago. It is the same argument that existed for water and electric service. The same types of pro-monopoly-fuck-everybody-else people exist today; they also existed 100 years ago. Doesnt make their ideas any more valid now.

The people who are taking a principled stand against it are ones who want less government control of anything. They're not wrong, but they are wrong about what we need right now. We need net neutrality to stay in place until the day when there aren't monopolistic controls (assuming it should ever come).

Your first sentence is provably false. I submit all laws passed in the last 30 years in US as proof.

Key phrase, principled stand. Most that have been visibly against NN are not taking a principled stand.