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.

The market needs more freedom, not more restrictions.

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.

free market can create competition

And if you lose service for the better part of a week and they take their time dragging ass, there's nothing you can get outside of maybe a tiny bump in how much you pay that month.

Well that's just it. The shit from before net neutrality wasn't much better.

not an argument

Even Google, troubled company it may be

In fact if the constant stream of reports are anything to go by, ISPs have been lying about pretty much everything that was supposed to be beneficial for decades.

We were supposed to have 1:1 up/down speeds by 2000.