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If a customer is unhappy with their ISP, they can complain, change ISP's or sue.

Fantasyland, not reality.

Sue? Sue on what grounds? What's the contract say? The US Supreme Court ruled just LAST WEEK a contract can limit a customer to arbitration and forfeit the right to sue. AT&T was the winning litigant.

Millions live where they have one broadband choice. Apartment dwellers, for example, are often limited to one provider, like the cable company two of which are also content providers: Comcast and Time Warner.

While it's possible they wouldn't block content outright, they may play favorites by shaping bandwidth to benefit partner sites or their own services and ruin the experience of competing services.

Do you want monopoly providers making those choices for you? Hulu over Netflix. DailyKos over FR. Vimeo over YouTube.

Do you want monopoly providers making those choices for you? Hulu over Netflix. DailyKos over FR. Vimeo over YouTube.

DailyKos over FR - that's exactly what I'm afraid the current gov't will do.

Of course I don't want monopolies running the show any more than I want gov't regs that effectively amount to the same thing.

A few years ago we had the ability to choose who we bought our electricity and phone service from, the company that hung the wires was not necessarily the same as the service provider. What happened to that?

Instead of the gov't making rules of what should be available, why not open up the digital world to similar competition, so that no matter where you live, you have a choice who your ISP provider will be.

-——————If a customer is unhappy with their ISP, they can complain, change ISP’s or sue.

Fantasyland, not reality.

Sue? Sue on what grounds? What’s the contract say? The US Supreme Court ruled just LAST WEEK a contract can limit a customer to arbitration and forfeit the right to sue. AT&T was the winning litigant.———————

Sounds like a good ground to have the laws changed.

It strikes me that the FCC/Genachowski(sp?) do not want to change the laws so as to empower the people.

To empower you and I.

He wants power for himself.

Throw the rule of law overboard, welcome to the rule of man. Welcome to the rule of net neutrality, and the rule of the FCC.

Color me uninterested.

You’ve identified a real problem. Great, let’s fix the laws and solve the problem. Without dictators.

-————Do you want monopoly providers making those choices for you? Hulu over Netflix. DailyKos over FR. Vimeo over YouTube.-—————

I certainly don’t want bureacurats telling us hulu over netflix, dailykos over fr. vimeo over youtube.

Do you?

Keep the power separated, don’t welcome the power grab.