I’ll make you a deal, I’ll stop talking about net neutrality, if you start pushing against the monopolies in the internet industry. Are monopolies in line with you capitalist ideals? Why complain about Net neutrality, but not about monopolies?
Give people the choice, and some can pick to get shafted by these new consumer restrictions, and others can choose a telco that does things the way it’s always been done. Then let the market decide. Oh that’s right, we can’t, so we have the monopolies shafting customers by charging more and delivering less.
Pro-capitalism my hairy arse.
The Monopolies are state sanctioned and dictated.
Bravo SengirV!!!!
In the vast majority of the country there is only 1 choice a person has if they want high-speed internet. In part of the country a person is lucky if they have 2-3 choices.
But telco’s are a strange animal. In the front door they compete for customers but in the back door they are friends and partners. Yes AT$T, Veri$ion, Comca$t & Time-Warner all have agreements on the backend about how much each will pay the other to leverage their networks and even how those networks will be operated.
MONOPOLIES, especially ones that lease government owned (aka owned by you and I) airwaves, do need oversight and regulation.
We have all discovered that in the 1980’s $3 a minute long distance rates were a scam. How much money did the telco’s steal from your parent’s back then? Long Distance eventually became “commoditized”. The Telco’s learned their lesson from that disaster. Mobile phone service and internet should go the way of Long-Distance... But that doesn’t happen. WHY not?
But without internet monopolies what can the media base it’s calls for more internet regulation on?
Gee, think of the media’s profits...