Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality
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- monospaced0
As long as there's an ISP out there that maintains neutrality, they will have the customers. I think enough people would be outraged enough to prevent ISPs from really taking it out on the customer. We're way too accustomed to how things are with neutrality rules in place, so to think people will just sit by and accept sweeping insane pricing and content changes sounds a bit naive.
There's money in being the ISP that is fair, as anyone with any sense would gravitate toward it.
- That's essentially what I've read in all the clued-up nerd forums - just regulate to promote greater competition and let the market sort things out.detritus
- ...which is essentially what we do here in Europe. The idea of having local loop monopolies was put to sleep over a decade ago.detritus
- it's possibly an over-optimistic view, I admitmonospaced
- to clarify - there is a 'local loop monopoly' here in the UK, but it HAS to offer its competitors access at the exchanges.detritus
- I think that net neutrality rules are still important, and should be agreed upon worldwide by a proper consortiummonospaced
- This causes another problem - lack of motivation for infrastructure investment, but that's only another regulatory hurdle away.detritus
- very interestingmonospaced
- The problem is that in the U.S., so much of the infrastructure is controlled by only one or two companies.yuekit
- Changing that takes A LOT of time and investment, not as simple as just encourage more competition.yuekit
- even more of a reason to maintain net neutralitymonospaced