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RE: Why I Am Skeptical of "Net Neutrality"
Also isn't it the government has created a scarcity of bandwidth, which keeps the FCC in business. The government creates the problem by saying it is protecting the commons, then charges for the use of the commons. It also picks the winners and losers. It then tells the winners that it has to extract profits to give to the losers. Nothing but a protection racket.
I found this after the initial post.
I'm up for some organic internet. Ru?
as I have said in my previous comment, the statement at 2:25-2:32 it this video is literally a lie. THIS HAS HAPPENED, for example in 2013 when comcast made netflix pay more so that their stream would remain high quality. link. This is either bad documentation or worse, cognitive dissonance. Up to you to judge if you feel like this person is trustworthy
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Why do companies like Comcast have so little competition, and are thus able to perform such alleged actions?
Companies like Netflix especially have dramatically altered bandwidth loads, especially on cable internet systems. Why shouldn't companies be free to experiment with ways to alter delivery of media through funding? The internet is an experimental frontier.
What was the result of the lawsuit? All I see are allegations and accusations.
This guy forgot about the 1996 Communication Act.
I liked this video
Is there a retort on this one?
Why should all data be treated equally? The USPS doesn't treat all snail mail equally. And I don't trust century-old or even decade-old "laws" to account for technological advancements. Government control is always destructive, and the corporate behemoths are only a threat because of prior government protections. And laws never are restricted to their sales pitch bullet points.
Do this one next!