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What is "Net Neutrality" the Truth
"Doomsdrzej" wrote
| Higher prices? Bull****. Competition also includes offering a better | service for LESS and undercut everyone else. | What competition? I have a service I like. My other option is Verizon, which I'd like to avoid. I'm lucky. Many people have only one option for highspeed Internet. Some have none. My brother in NH only recently got DSL. Up until now his only option was dish, which failed on cloudy days. Even with competition, this is a classic case of dual or triple monopoly. If you have a CVS and a Walgreens in your town you could say there's competition, but they're both national chains, carrying pretty much the same stuff for pretty much the same prices. There's a difference between competition and collusion. The latter is what we have. It may or may not be deliberate, illegal price fixing, but the result is the same. The point of Net neutrality is not to give control to the gov't. The point is to enforce the idea that the Internet is a utility, not a commercial service. That the people renting you the wire should only be renting the wire and not controlling the content. If you think the gov't is controlling what you can see online that's a separate issue. |
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What is "Net Neutrality" the Truth
Mayayana wrote:
"Slimer" wrote | Higher prices? Bull****. Competition also includes offering a better | service for LESS and undercut everyone else. | What competition? I have a service I like. My other option is Verizon, which I'd like to avoid. I'm lucky. Many people have only one option for highspeed Internet. Exactly. Slime's right-wing propaganda is failing him, again. Some have none. My brother in NH only recently got DSL. Up until now his only option was dish, which failed on cloudy days. Even with competition, this is a classic case of dual or triple monopoly. If you have a CVS and a Walgreens in your town you could say there's competition, but they're both national chains, carrying pretty much the same stuff for pretty much the same prices. There's a difference between competition and collusion. The latter is what we have. It may or may not be deliberate, illegal price fixing, but the result is the same. The point of Net neutrality is not to give control to the gov't. The point is to enforce the idea that the Internet is a utility, not a commercial service. That the people renting you the wire should only be renting the wire and not controlling the content. If you think the gov't is controlling what you can see online that's a separate issue. Good post! -- "COLA losers like chrisv detest success of any kind. It's as simple as that." - Hadron Quark, lying shamelessly |
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What is "Net Neutrality" the Truth
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:47:29 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote: "Doomsdrzej" wrote | Higher prices? Bull****. Competition also includes offering a better | service for LESS and undercut everyone else. | What competition? I have a service I like. My other option is Verizon, which I'd like to avoid. I'm lucky. Many people have only one option for highspeed Internet. Some have none. My brother in NH only recently got DSL. Up until now his only option was dish, which failed on cloudy days. Even with competition, this is a classic case of dual or triple monopoly. If you have a CVS and a Walgreens in your town you could say there's competition, but they're both national chains, carrying pretty much the same stuff for pretty much the same prices. There's a difference between competition and collusion. The latter is what we have. It may or may not be deliberate, illegal price fixing, but the result is the same. The point of Net neutrality is not to give control to the gov't. The point is to enforce the idea that the Internet is a utility, not a commercial service. That the people renting you the wire should only be renting the wire and not controlling the content. If you think the gov't is controlling what you can see online that's a separate issue. I don't think that the government is controlling the content; I think that the American government handed the power to do so to a useless organization called the United Nations as well as the companies behind the most powerful services on the Internet like Google and Facebook. |
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What is "Net Neutrality" the Truth
On 12/7/2017 9:08 AM, Doomsdrzej wrote:
I don't think that the government is controlling the content; I think that the American government handed the power to do so to a useless organization called the United Nations as well as the companies behind the most powerful services on the Internet like Google and Facebook. LOL! |
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