Message from @RyeNorth
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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.
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.
has had their bids shut down in some prospective markets
due to lobbying.
In order to set up infrastructure
You generally have to have a city's permission.
Lobbying by who? It didn't happen to be due to direct influence by comcast or at&t's lawyers did it?
I have a whole google doc of evidence against net neutrality
Ah, I see where you're coming from.
Question though.
By your definition, what is net neutrality.
Pretty sure it's the same as yours.