Posted on 05/14/2017 12:54:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This guy got beat up pretty bad here a few days ago. He is obviously one of the good guys
Pain is a breath of fresh air. The internet companies and their subscribers paid for the capacity. It should be up to them to decide the best way to work this and not Netflix, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and YouTube.
I know some providers are monopolies but they are GOVERNMENT enabled monopolies. Want really good free open and cheap service? Tell your local government to allow unlimited competition.
Go Ajit!!!
Its time to remove all of those line items charges from our phone bills. Close to a dozen now for every agency imaginable.
They know the market won't stand for that so they want to be able to extort the money from Netflix.
Netflix isn't consuming the capacity, the consumer is.
Ajit was on Howie Carr last week. He’s been on a couple of times. He’s a good man doing good things at the FCC>
Pai is doing a good job undoing the left’s efforts to take over and ruin the internet. The FCC also is charge of regulating broadcast bandwidth producers: TV, radio, cable. The left has a pretty firm grip on part of that. Is there anything Pai can do about that. Although I appreciate schadenfreude I don’t want regulations to prohibit liberal speech there. I want to change any regulations that prohibit conservative speech there to produce an even playing field. Let the consumers have a free, real market and let it pick the content. I doubt the status quo is entirely the FCC’s fault, but to the extent it can reenable free, truly fair, competition I want it to happen. That would make the left whine enough to satisfy my schadenfreude desires. Anyone have suggestions for Pai on that front?
Ajit is OUTSTANDING - thanks for posting, Tol.
There is more necessary than “draining” the swamp. It needs to be eliminated. Terminated. Agencies ended and their employees put out to the private sector.
So long as the FCC remains in existence it is only being temporarily curtailed. It will come roaring back.Same with all the other Agencies.
Heard his interview on the Blaze a few weeks ago, cautiously optimistic.
All monopolies are government protected monopolies. the rare and possibly nonexistent exception is the monopoly that maintains its status by increasing quality and variety and reducing costs at a rate that is as fast as such improvement would come with competition. That is an efficient monopoly and not really a monopoly because it does not use government to restrict the market to itself but essentially competes with itself.
It matters not which end of the pipe gets the charge. the user pays it.
We need to get back to the original FCC that was staffed mostly with engineers instead for lawyers.
It’s a good start if true.
I wonder if it’s too late to take control of the Internet back from the U.N. and give it back to ICANN?
To the extent that they continue to use Netflix, of course. But the risk here is of the network provider driving users away from Netflix by charging less for the bandwidth consumed by other 'favored' content - like that conveniently sold by the network provider.
As a consumer I'm happy to pay for my bandwidth, but once I've done so I want to use it for whatever I choose. I don't want my provider charging more for or slowing down content that I may choose.
I don't think there is any reasonable basis for that claim. The mischief companies do when they think they have monopoly is too evident. Just witness the behavior of our vaunted airlines.
Private companies will behave like Rhine Barons whenever it is possible for them to do so.
Yep. I don’t blame them for trying, I just don’t want them to get rich on me.
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