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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Google, MS, ect... they support this because they want to open free ISP's and basically put everyone else out of business. That way the G phone, email, blow job machine can track when it's time for you to take a shit.
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That has nothing to do with net neutrality. Net neutrality has no effect on whether they open free ISPs and put other companies out of business.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Basically right now, everyone in America - has open Internet choice, and each we get more options, now with air cars, sat connections.. it's getting bigger and bigger.
The "Free Market" decides who gets to play ball. If one ISP wants to screw with consumers, we can change. If it's bad enough and cross the line.. the law below kicks in for any Company in America.
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Not exactly true. We have few choices in this country when it comes to high speed connections. There are only a handful of major telecommunication companies. I live in Chicago. We have one choice for a cable modem and a couple for DSL. Satellite is really a matter of where you live/work since it's predominately tall buildings (impossible to do in the loop). When it comes to supplying a strong business connection for an office of many people, we only have one option at all here. That's a major U.S. city, imagine what it's like for some people in rural areas. As someone who went to college in a small town, we had one option for any high speed connection.
Free market might seem nice, but it doesn't work when monopolies take over. We don't want the free market to handle our electric companies. We certainly didn't want them handling the telephone companies any longer. I respect the libertarian opinion of letting the free markets rule and allowing monopolies to dominate, but I just don't think it's good for myself or my business.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
We have a law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Antitrust_Act
This is the base law that protects consumers, the most basic level of it, it covers all deals/contracts, price screwing, ect related stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...on_Act_of_2006
This is the first try, of a law - based on what we already have within the Free Market. It got canned.
What's it do? It puts in regulation on the Internet - which has none. You regulate it a tiny bit - you get a lot later... history people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...on_Act_of_2006
This cluster fuck of a law tried to slip a tiny bit of "FCC defined net neutrality" into a overhaul of the Telecommunications Act of 1996....
So the broad meanings of Telecommunications, would govern the Internet. Yeah, really f'in smart.
You either want this to be "free of regulation" or you allow the flood gates to op |
This isn't regulation of the internet, it governs the telecommunications company. Your broad analysis would be like saying that since the government regulates the electric companies, they can tell you what you can and can't use it for in your home. Those are separate laws and separate matters. You're trying to stretch an Act that would simply force telcos to treat all traffic the same into something it's not.