Re:Battle for the Internet
by maxsilver on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @12:52PM
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> 1. The Title II Regs were designed during the Great Depression to address Ma Bell and don't match the internet now.
How so? As far as I can tell, 99% of Americans are still in the same situation as our Great Depression-era counterparts. The only difference is that the situation is now duplicated across a phone line and a cable line, instead of just the phone line alone.
> 3. The internet didn't need fixing in 2010
The internet itself may not need fixing -- but internet service providers certainly need fixing, both back in 2010 and now still today.
Every major US ISP (including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile, and many others) have all breached Net Neutrality. There have been numerous violations over the past decade -- a small portion of which is documented at https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...
How so? As far as I can tell, 99% of Americans are still in the same situation as our Great Depression-era counterparts. The only difference is that the situation is now duplicated across a phone line and a cable line, instead of just the phone line alone.
> 3. The internet didn't need fixing in 2010
The internet itself may not need fixing -- but internet service providers certainly need fixing, both back in 2010 and now still today.
Every major US ISP (including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Sprint, T-Mobile, and many others) have all breached Net Neutrality. There have been numerous violations over the past decade -- a small portion of which is documented at https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio...