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Originally Posted by Agent 488
if that net neutrality bill is weak or collapses all the minor players (everyone on this board) is going to get fucked.
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True, it's only laws that keep most of us in business. Remove the laws protecting us and we're first to get fucked.
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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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You really don't think very deep into things. You were screaming the Internet shouldn't be subject to laws. Now you're supporting the laws that keep it free for you to make a living on.
Think of the laws on monopoly and creating price cartels. They stop companies banding together to decide what you will pay, not just competition. What stops a company like Microsoft buying all the ISPSs? Yes laws.
Companies that control a market would never listen to a consumer. He buys or he goes without. At least every 4 years you get some say. Guaranteed by law.
