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The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » How Net Neutrality Regs Could Threaten Online High-Def Video
Started by TLF · 11 months ago
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3 years ago
The Internet provides the consumer with a tremendous number of additional choices, but without network neutrality, the ISPs will do everything in their power to maintain the status quo and prevent competitors from entering the market.
I just don't see how the "FCC bureaucrats suck" argument against network neutrality could possibly hold a candle to the threat of losing our big chance at a truly competitive marketplace in telecommunications and entertainment.
3 years ago
Wow, Barry, you haven't been reading TLF very long, have you? :) I ask because plenty of posts here have gone into some detail about what's wrong with NN regulation. In brief:
You say that ISPs will abuse their customers. Find me a case where this has actually happened. There's only one that I know of, a small-fry shop in North Carolina, and the matter was quickly settled. If anti-competitive behavior by ISPs becomes a widespread problem, then yes we should take steps to remedy it. But it's not a problem right now. Why solve a problem that doesn't exist? Don't we have enough work to do solving problems that already exist?
We have no NN regulation right now. If ISPs were going to abuse their customers as you describe, why aren't they doing it already?
Furthermore, we already have a "truly competitive marketplace in telecommunications and entertainment". At least, the market is more competitive than it has been in, like, ever. NN regulation likely won't make the market more competitive. If existing communications regulations are any guide, it will make the market less competitive.