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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
if all the telco's band together, where do you go though?
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You're forgetting they are competitors and that sooner or later, one of them will lower it's prices, relax its filter etc in an attempt to gain a bigger market share.
Also, if the big telco's filter content and ask high prices, that leaves more room for smaller and new companies to fill the gap.
If you are dealing with companies, organizations that want to make money, you have a chance to influence them by choosing how you spend your money. If you give the State the power to regulate the internet, you essentially give up every chance of ever being able to control or influence what will be decided.
Who has the biggest incentive to listen to 'the people'? A company that could go out of business if people decide to stop buying its services or government bureaucrats that get paid no matter what and have the power to grant special privileges to their friends?