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I think it’s great that the providers can’t charge more for faster internet service.

But I can’t really utilize those higher speeds until I get a computer with a faster chip in it. I’m guessing Toshiba will now be forced to sell those better models at the same low price as their slower models?

What I REALLY can’t wait for is my new Ferrari!!

Hmmm. If the companies are forced to provide stuff with all the same speeds - will the speed go up? Or down? I imagine that the new law (all 317 pages of it) will have something in there about limiting the amount of profit they can make. So much for research and system upgrades to be able to provide higher speeds.

“The trees are all kept equal. By hatchet, axe, and saw.”

struck me as now there is a need to appeal to heaven.
for instance the the original pine tree revolt. bigger than the tea party. the pine tree flag was the first navy flag ordered by washington. it was a slap in the face to every ship in the british navy as they had marked all the trees for masts. just linking this as someone would like the history
this from history link john locke on the appeal to heaven as the last resort.
That npt tax but taking sealed all pine trees for the king by mark. here is Locke’s description of a people so vexed that they appeal to heaven and then take up arms.

The old question will be asked in this matter of prerogative, But who shall be judge when this power is made a right use of? I answer: between an executive power in being, with such a prerogative, and a legislative that depends upon his will for their convening, there can be no judge on earth; as there can be none between the legislative and the people, should either the executive, or the legislative, when they have got the power in their hands, design, or go about to enslave or destroy them. The people have no other remedy in this, as in all other cases where they have no judge on earth, but to appeal to heaven: for the rulers, in such attempts, exercising a power the people never put into their hands, (who can never be supposed to consent that any body should rule over them for their harm) do that which they have not a right to do. And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven. And this judgment they cannot part with, it being out of a man’s power so to submit himself to another, as to give him a liberty to destroy him; God and nature never allowing a man so to abandon himself, as to neglect his own preservation: and since he cannot take away his own life, neither can he give another power to take it. Nor let any one think, this lays a perpetual foundation for disorder; for this operates not, till the inconveniency is so great, that the majority feel it, and are weary of it, and find a necessity to have it amended. But this the executive power, or wise princes, never need come in the danger of: and it is the thing, of all others, they have most need to avoid, as of all others the most perilous.

– John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government – Sec. 168