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 Originally Posted by mcatdog
Agree, but I think the real problem is that broadband service in America is provided by a patchwork of local monopolies that provide bad service bundled with a bunch of crap that I never even use. When I moved last summer, I was excited that I didn't have to use Comcast anymore, only to discover that Charter is much, much worse.
If we can find a way to create local competition, the issue of net neutrality would disappear because a smart person would always be there to start a new provider that allowed people to use p2p. We would also see speeds increase and prices drop. Corporate bribery already runs the Internet insofar as the service providers and stooges beholden to them in the FCC have decided against broadband open access. Net neutrality is a very poor substitute for open access IMO, but it's at least better than nothing which is what we're about to have.
Great points, and I haven't thought too much about them, honestly
I'm unsure of what will happen in the ISP world. A talking point is what you brought up about increased competition and such, but reality is that this doesn't always work, and that when it does it's often due to regulatory policy that our government doesn't really back up anymore and simple business 'mistakes' that the big corporations make less and less IMO
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