It’s not the age of dial up.
Net neutrality is a giant subsidy to streaming media companies. In exchange the government gets to censor content. That’s all it is.
Curious ...are you satisfied with the cell phone market or do you think it needs to be regulated by government to be more “fair” and “neutral”?
From the thread:
“2. Pai the FCC commissioner said in a video while being grilled by liberal rags like politico that a lot of small isps have not been able to expand their network because Obama passed this net neutrality bit of communism in 2015.”
You know why ISP’s couldn’t expand under Net Neutrality? Because they had to use their profits to increase bandwidth to comply with NN requirements enforced by the government. Prior to Net Neutrality ISPs could either expand their market, their bandwidth or a combination thereof. What existed was robust competition among ISPs for market share and level of service needed to satisfy their customers. Similar to the cell phone market. With Net Neutrality ISPs had to upgrade bandwidth to support NN requirements, rather than their market and customers. As a result competition among the ISPs declined and the ISP market stagnated.
Here’s the issue in a nutshell. By 2015 big streaming services like Netflix, Google/YouTube and Facebook were hitting a limit on expanding their markets. Cities and many suburbs had the bandwidth for streaming but most locations beyond that did not. The big streaming services effectively had their customer base limited by the capability of smaller ISPs to upgrade bandwidth to support streaming services. So the big media streamers came up with NN which required smaller ISPs to upgrade their existing bandwidth to support streaming vice using their profits to compete with other ISPs for market share.
The effect was Net Neutrality used the government to expand the streaming media’s market share earning them new customers and additional profits at the expense of smaller ISPs and lower usage customers who, in effect, had to pay for what others needed.
Now the internet returns to what it was pre-2015. Ppl who want streaming may need to go with an ISP and service package that supports it while others can choose a lower bandwidth package supporting their usage.
Pre-2015 I was capped by Verizon to 3.5MB/sec. I never noticed it except for torrent downloads. So what?
Just the increased competition among ISPs should result in decreased costs and increased service for customers. Ppl who need streaming should be able to freely seek the ISP which offers them the best service. They will have a larger choice of ISPs. And people who don’t use a lot of streaming won’t be forced to subsidize streaming companies and their customers. Aka back to the free market capitalism that built the internet and made it what it is.
The internet was created by the Federal government, not by free markets.