RIP Net Neutrality
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Obviously the market should be made more competitive. It's ridiculous that depending where you live you might only have one ISP to choose from. But even if you had two or three companies to choose from, I'm not sure this will preserve net neutrality. Presumably the same incentives that exist for Comcast to prioritize and throttle traffic would be there for any new competitor.
Meanwhile your average consumer doesn't care about net neutrality, they only care about getting their Facebook or Netflix delivered fast and are not able to look 10 years down the road and see the negative effect on the industry. The market is not capable of handling every issue and this is a case where the public should step in and set a simple rule (equivalent to ensuring freedom of speech or other basic rights) that says you can't engage in paid prioritization schemes.
- Yeah, but look at cell competition, prices/options go down (kinda) because there are manyformed
- If it was opened up there would always be the little guy, or the big guy, like Google, that will offer more for lessformed
- Well yes price is something every consumer takes into account when choosing a service.ukit2
- But your average consumer may not understand or care about net neutrality. That's why I wonder why some people think the market will automatically solve the issue.ukit2
- market/ more competition will automatically solve the issue.ukit2