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Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by foodstances on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:49AM (#13194038)
I think that's a bad analogy. I'm in support of net neutrality but your analogy just made me want to support different pricing for water.

Water is a finite, possibly scarce resource, and there are shortages in places in the US. If I lived in one of those places, I would sure as hell want some asshole filling his pool during a shortage to pay more than the rest of us pay for basic drinking water. Similarly, I would want companies that bottle that water up and sell it at a premium to pay more than everyone else.

Municipalities already limit outdoor water usage for exactly this reason. You can drink all the water you want but you can only use it outside to water your grass or fill your pool on odd or even days. Your analogy is saying that shouldn't be allowed, because internet.

Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by creeble on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:11AM (#13194195)
Perhaps electricity might be a better analogy?
Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by amelius on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:40AM (#13194464)
Nope, it's also a scarce resource. And similarly to water, excessive use is (usually still) bad for the planet.
Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by creeble on Friday December 16, 2016 @12:13PM (#13194784)
But internet connectivity is somehow inherently limitless and deliverable for free?
Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by mjevans on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:54PM (#13195697)
Internet connectivity is all about maximum capacity. Everything past that is just sunk costs.

It doesn't cost anything more to use it at maximum capacity than it does to just leave it on standby. (The end points MIGHT use a TINY bit more power, but we're talking on the order of cents per month for terrabytes/month of traffic; it's a rounding error.)

Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by tunap on Friday December 16, 2016 @07:15PM (#13198116)
The electrical analogy is more closely comparable, but I've found water is a simpler concept for most to comprehend.
Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by shuntress on Friday December 16, 2016 @12:06PM (#13194728)
Bandwidth is also limited.
Re:Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC by Spivak on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:04PM (#13196282)
Which is why you pay for 'speed' which is basically a proxy for bandwidth.