FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see

Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by dragonwriter on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:40PM (#15749750)

> People are dropping cable due to the heavy-handed control and lack of choice. Why would ISPs want emulate that failing model?

Because the cable companies are the ISPs, and without ISPs acting differently, there's less impetus for people to ditch their cable companies as cable companies.

Especially when the phone/cable/ISP firms can block or tax into submission services that compete with their phone and video offerings by virtue of their control of internet access.

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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by ams6110 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @12:51PM (#15749895)

I don't know anyone who has a land-line phone anymore. I know many people who have dropped cable. It won't be that easy to force people back to those things now that they have experienced the alternative.

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Re:FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose th... by bunderbunder on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:09PM (#15750096)

But it sure will be a heck of a lot easier if the FCC's got your back with regulation that supports anticompetitive behavior.

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