Message from @RyeNorth
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dissolution of political parties isn't realistic
I know it's not.
humans form groups
And a full unfiltered democracy would be nothing short of terrifying.
yeah
It's nearly impossible to ask someone with power to give up power.
I mean, look at all the people lemming for Net neutrality to be kept in place, just shows the mob is retarded
Yeah, until you realize that Net Neutrality wasn't really officially a legal concept until during obama's second term
and that the internet did just fine without it thank you very much.
A fair number of the people arguing for net neutrality are definitely doing it in idiotic ways but the concept still isn't bad unfortunately.
yes it is
net neutrality is bad
Well okay, let me rephrase.
Purely from an open market perspective, it's bad.
Net neutrality isn't great. But the alternative is much worse.
Is it?
also wrong
Giant corporations that game the system and change laws to benefit themselves while screwing over anyone smaller than them.
The problem in place is the inability for a startup internet provider to be able to operate.
Stories of tiny ISPs trying to make ground getting shafted when they're basically legally crushed by the likes of comcast and verizon.
Net Neutrality doesn't solve that.
indeed
net neutrality neuters competition
and innovation
I wouldn't go that far, necessarily
It's a distraction from what the real problems are, though.
the problem of small ISPs is high costs of entering the market
Disagree.
the infrastructure is very expensive, but competition could lessen those costs
There really isn't any competition though.
The infrastructure is impossible.
In a lot of places you see service from a single ISP.
also selective throttling is good in a variety of applications
I'm in one of those areas.
Next town over, it's another ISP but their spheres of influence don't intersect.
There's no choice.
I pay about 80 bucks to get bent over by my ISP
There's no competition.
5 mbps up, 10 down
I used to be on gigabit.