Posted on 08/30/2018 7:11:24 PM PDT by Innovative
My thoughts exactly.
Let’s fairness them to death !
Doubtful if ICC rules apply to businesses that transmit and relay data/messages, etc. between states.
If I were an internet provider and wanted to kick the California commies (er Democrats) in the balls, I’d take the whole service package off-line for “repairs” for about a week.
Democrats would be hanging from telephone poles from SF to Sacramento down to LA/Oakland and half the leftist shitholes inbetween.
Bring cameras!
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It’s not easy and the landscape is still evolving. The terminology “net neutrality” is prejudicial. The gist of it is they don’t want ISPs to start favoring some content over others, or charging content providers (think Netflix for example) to get faster speeds. That would tilt internet use towards those companies who paid for speed and disadvantage those who cannot or will not pay for faster transmissions.
I think with the Time Warner+ATT merger, ATT has essentially rebuilt its monopoly. They control the vast majority of coaxial cable and fiber lines that deliver content. As I see it this is a problem because they also sell their own content, and provide cable tv services. They have a clear interest to protect their own content and services. IMO, the cable and fiber should be a considered a utility and ATT forced to allow alternate content providers to use the cable, allow 3rd parties to lease bulk bandwidth and market and sell their own internet access and their own cable tv programming.
If you recall during the DSL days there were multiple providers who sold DSL over the copper lines - that was because the copper line service was accessible to 3rd parties after the Ma Bell breakup. I lean to the idea that cable and fiber should be considered a utility, or at least treated like a utility, particularly because Congress gave the cable companies a legal monopoly to help defray the infrastructure development expense. Their time is up (imo, they have recouped the cost), and as we see all the regional cable companies have more or less been consolidated into what amounts to a monopoly - or darn near one anyway.
Define internet provider...
The person who sells you a monthly jack in your home or a hosting site for your webpage, your videos, your blog posts?
How queer falebook sh!tter and yourube are okay to downthrottle and shadowban content that does not violate published riles.
Metflix is using a significant portion of internet bandwidth as are other streaming content providers and in essence they want the protection to continue dominating all traffic on the shared www.
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