Anything the government does now is based on Congress Critters and other Gub'ment blood suckers selling legislation and/or regulation deferments so as to line their pockets with lobby money.
Looking twenty years ahead....what is the landscape of TV and cable?
Over half of the population will be data-streaming their favorite shows. A few networks like Discovery and History will be around because they do unique stuff. ABC, CBS, and NBC? They will downsize because they can’t produce the stuff that the public wants...high-quality scripts and creativity. Netflix and Amazon will be producing shows that people want to watch....shocking people with a season of only twelve to fifteen shows instead of twenty-four that the networks opt for.
It’s the data stream that matters, and if you look around cable hasn’t exactly made it’s way into the vast nature of America. To reach the bulk of America with data streaming...you need to share tax-revenue of some type. Most of us would disagree with this and opt for the consumer to drive the trend, but that would delay things by a decade (minimum). I think their ‘secret’ plan is to reach some plateau of data streaming to every single American by 2025....no matter how remote they are...we will reach them.
True, as in there's not enough bandwidth (money) for everyone to stream whatever they want. So the companies throttled. Now, under Obama's plan, they can still throttle but lawyers will lie and sue and collect class action money. That part is still about the money. I read most of the 300+ pages and the rebuttal. Obama's regs are about money for lawyers.