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It may turn out to be nothing, but you cant deny that the possibility of exploitation of the customer is greater now than it was before.
The one thing about the cable companies since you brought it up is that since streaming has become so big their has been more options for consumers. I can get my bill down to practically nothing from my cable provider.
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You have expressed concerns that if they do take place I will not be happy. My thinking is that it will not happen and I feel that certain concerns have been blown out of the water by media outlets that hate anything Trump does.
What if regulation came out the regulated the consumer instead?
Let's say 10GB per month so the users can't abuse the system?
Then us moderate users would have a nice small affordable bill every month.
Because of those pesky users that take advantage of the system couldn't anymore.
Are you still in favor of regulation or only when it's not you being regulated?
TM
Think of it like this. There is a 2 lane road between 2 cities 50 miles apart. Comcast road wants to build a highway between the 2 cities. They should be able to charge a toll on the highway to recoup the cost of building and maintaining. But, Comcast road just bought Chrysler in a firesale and so if you drive any vehicle other than a Chrysler, Comcast road can charge you a double price toll, or the speed limit is set 20 mph slower for Non-Chrysler vehicles. Now there are other options for the consumer but they are not as good. Flying to the next city is expensive, the old 2 lane is much slower. And its unlikely another company will come around to build another highway.
The new rules lay the groundwork for things like this to happen.
Also, my current isp offers 6 different levels of service according to the needs of the customer. If it is really such a big deal about heavy users clogging the internet i think there could be ways the burden could be distributed to the end consumer that could avoid the pitfalls of throwing out the rules completely.
Are you still in favor of regulation or only when it's not you being regulated?
TM
What about mandating internet police departments to handle the crime ? That should solve identity theft.
However one could just as easily argue that we should regulate the consumer
to keep things running smoothly if one believes regulation is the answer.
While I'm not against regulation in every aspect, I am against bad regulation.
In this case, I believe you're fighting to restore something that was bad.
TM
Pit Row
There wasn’t really a need to regulate the internet like a utility. Now that everybody has high speed internet the government saw a need to regulate the internet like a utility.
I am in favor of net neutrality.
Does anybody remember when we literally gave these ISPs hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to build a fiber network across the US and they pocketed everything? Now we are supposed to take away more rules that keep them in Check?
Google tried to build a fiber network around the US and the ISPs fought and sued them every step of the way until Google basically gave up. So much for the free market...
There is no competition in USA, few big is controlling everything. Prices are jacked up in everything. And FCC just gave them tools to screw you over even more. It`s all about profit for big corporations. I`m sorry for fools who (again) think that big corporations will cover costs from their profits. The same with tax brakes. Who in his right mind really thing that all that money will bounce to the average Joe?
TM
"Why do I have to still take my pills... I feel fine".
example of how absurd it is when folks are
talking issues and you throw out
"it's because you don't like Obama"
Why stoop to that level?
TM
When a small town is barely forming there is no real need for police as the town folk can mostly take care of problems on their own. As the small town grows into a bustling city there comes a time when a police force is needed to keep everything in check.
That’s how I basically view the net neutrality situation.
Maybe we can get them to regulate gas prices too?
I don't think the interweb has been designated a "public utility" which would seem to be under a different umbrella.
But when you tell a company how they have to sell their product, are you not in effect regulating commerce? And if so, isn't congress the only one with authority to regulate commerce?
Just an odd thought.
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