I really don’t see this happening as long as there is competition in the market place.
If a ISP puts limitations on what you do with your internet service you simply go to another provider.
I have at least Windstream and Time Warner available to me. Both of them are constantly sending me literature asking me to switch to them or upgrade my service.
As time goes by I can only see the market becoming more competitive in the future (provided government does not get more involved). As technology advances the service should only get cheaper and better.
In my opinion that law was a solution looking for a problem.
Yeah, that worked out real well when airlines starting charging extra for everything. People here said that youu could just go to another aurline and the market would work it out.
Now they all charge. I can list dozens of other examples.
I wish I had just a drop of your optimism and faith in the MSM, could you bottle some up and send some my way please !!![/sarc]
I think it is a big mistake for conservatives to oppose net neutrality. Opposition basically favors government sponsored monopolies over small business. I have a choice between AT&T and Comcast - that’s not competition.
How many providers go by your house?
If there was ever an argument for government regulation, it should be that internet service providers provide internet service. PERIOD.
ISPs are the modern equivalent of the "common carrier". In return for the physical monopoly they enjoy, they must be required to provide equal access to any and all sources of carriable information.
I've always hated telcos, just behind the gubmint.
Well over 70% of the US population has NO competition for high speed internet service providers able to maintain high speed streaming.
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“[For] at least 77 percent of the country, your only choice for a high-capacity, high-speed Internet connection is your local cable monopoly,” says Susan Crawford, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.
There is no doubt websites like FR are going to be systematically crushed by middle and upper management at the cable company monopolies. It will take time, but there is no doubt there will be outright supression of civic speech.
“I really don’t see this happening as long as there is competition in the market place.”
The problem is that in wide swaths of the country there is NO competition. In many places there is only a single provider, and in many other places there are essentially none. In the best of cases there are only two anyway, and so if both decide on the exact same policies, then what? For all practical purposes, ISP access is nearly a monopoly and at best simply a duopoly.