RE: Net Neutrality is Not a Human Right - it's Socialism
Wow...what a collection of the excrement you accuse everyone of making in your last sentence. What all of us pay for is bandwidth and in some instances a quantity of data. So if I want to pay $50 for 5mb/s internet from Comcast that is what I get. I'm not taking any of your bandwidth. If I want to pay $150 for gigabit service and I want to turn on the tap and download all the content I can 24/7 I am getting the benefit of the bargain of my subscripton level. If there is a cap on volume, which their probably is (I think most have like a terabyte/month or something), then I will be punished. But I am not taking anything from anyone. Luckily bandwidth is unlimited in the sense that as long as there is electricity it is always there and is always improving in speed and quality of service.
And you obviously do not understand the issue. What market are your talking about? And more importantly, what "new ideas" are there? Is having equal ability to access anything that you want on the Internet, anytime that you want, and for as long as you want not enough? The only "new" ideas beyond what we currently have are all lesser versions where we pay more for less. Oh, right, you said the "market" will take care of that...so how many ISP's can you choose from where you live? One? Two? Probably one. If not, tell us, what are the differences between the two in your area? What are the price differences, speed, etc.? I imagine there is little daylight between the two. Otherwise, the overwhelming majority of us have no choice. No the regional monopolies is what makes the loss of net neutrality so harmful.
Tell us, what is this government interference resulting in "archaic one size fits all solitions" you talk of? I didn't realize the "government" was micromanaging Google and YouTube and regulating how they operate. This is news to me. Please tell me more. You have whetted my appetite for what you know. I mean usually when I see something like your broad general meaningless statement about government interference I think it is just a rhetorical device that is meant to disguise the author's ignorance, or is an amateruish attempt to inflame emotions of like minded readers who are easily distracted by propoganda. But since you have apparently found the connection between government interference and the problem with archaic one size fits all solutions on the Internet, I am starved to learn what you know. Please please please would you update your post to tell us what you have discovered on this topic as it relates to net neutrality?
103 votes? 69 reputation? Seriously? I have to see what else you have contributed to the community, because this piece of whatever it is...not portraying a flattering portrait...
Yeah. This (the OP) is the first post on the platform that isn't a spammy comment that I've considered downvoting for being so utterly inaccurate, and so dangerous to unimpeded access to information on the internet. I wish I had more SP to upvote your post more.
The post does, however, do a rather nice job pointing out the hypocrisy and lack of critical thought of many of the libertarian belief system's cheerleaders, especially those who have long ago given up thinking for themselves and have found safety from scientific and intellectual exertion in a group of fellow uncritical cultists. This is not necessarily an indictment of libertarianism, just of many of its followers.
It is the idealogues who fall back on catch phrases and generalities devoid of fact. You can lay out a detailed reason why Ine neutrality is good and how we will be harmed; paintstakingly list public statments made by ISP executives, point out that Ajit Pai is motivated by his return to the private sector as an executive probably at Verizon, how he abused the comment period, and yadda yadda yadda. Doesn't mean anything becasue they just say "But we don't want the gevernment regulatng nad censoring the Internet. These guys can't get out from beneath their slogans.
I am just amazed at the disingenuous, cynical, bull sh*t that has been peddled by the Alit Pai's of the country. It was strange for me to join Steemit and see so many people in support of getting rid of net neutrality and how misinformed they are. Of course FaceBook, Quora, and the blogosphere seems to be overwhelmingly in support of net neutrality. The only group that appears to have whole heartedly taken up the ISPs' cause is the libertarians. But between the lack of intellectual rigor and their perceptions and belief structures being so divorced from the facts, it is hard to stomach the vast majority of their posts.
There's a pretty big anarcho-capitalist community here. It's not surprising really given the cyptocurrency model/ethic. But there's also a reasonable level of social libertarian and social democratic voices here, so it gives me something else to read when I get sick of the AC bollocks.