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.
-——————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.