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Originally Posted by u-Bob
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?
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one my main concerns is the lack of understanding the average citizen has of the issue. will they know they can go elsewhere? will they even realize these have been put in place? will enough people bother to leave to make enough of a difference, ect. i'm not sure how it is in the US but here in canada all of the lines are owned by the big telco's and the smaller companies are just resellers, so the big companies can change the rules on them any time a contract is due. i am not for government regulation but corps are all about profit by any means these days so who do you turn to for help?