Senate Democrats, 22 States Fight To Restore Net Neutrality

[jimmysmitty]

don't people know anything the government gets involved in causes the exact opposite effect to happen then what they wanted to.

Yes because giving the corporations unlimited control has worked so well in the past.

And on a side note, it looks like even Tom's isn't immune to the FCC's paid shills. I remember how excited everyone was to have NN put in place. Personal attack on a previous poster removed Is nobody capable of independent thought anymore? Are you all just dumb slaves to whatever party happens to be your fancy at that particular moment, and therefore unable to form an argument of your own other than "well X supports this, therefore I must not". NN isn't stifling competition, if anything it's doing the exact opposite. It's also been stated many times that having NN in effect does not prevent new ISP's from entering the field. No, what's stopping them is all of your buddies at Comcast, TWC, etc that sue them into inexistence. The same corporations that are desperately pushing to keep NN repealed.

To be fair, the internet flourished before NN was enacted.

While I am all for equality on the internet, I do question something that the government is so involved in keeping.

I also wonder if they are so on about equality when will there be better competition in ISPs? We have two in Chandler, Cox and CenturyLink and the price isn't really getting much better. In fact my rate just went up after years of being the same.

I guess we will see in the long run.

 

[mihen]

Price going up should be expected due to inflation, lack of competition, and government oversight. The nice thing about communication companies is that they do not go up as much as utilities. The price on utilities goes up the maximum put in place by the government every year.

 

[WyomingKnott]

To be fair, the internet flourished before NN was enacted.
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That's true. OTOH, if you look at the history of the Internet, it practiced NN because no-one had figured out the bright ideas of charging sites extra for being prioritized, blocking competitors' sites, and the like. IMHO, the Internet we all got used to was an even playing field with NN, where you could get traffic to some ridiculous startup like Google as easily as to an established company like AOL. This allowed the startups to flourish.

Legislating NN is an attempt to preserve that environment, rather than giving a chokehold on access and bandwidth to the established major companies that can pay for it.