Re:Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
by seibelj on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:48AM
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I’m against net neutrality if you are allowed to choose your ISP. Where I live (Boston) I only have Comcast. Trees even block satellite. If we allowed any ISP to lease the line from Comcast and let me choose service, it would be different. As I only have Comcast, it is a monopoly and I’m opposed. But with true competition, I could choose from a range of ISP’s, even theoretically free broadband that would be ad supported.
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Re:Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
by steanne on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @01:52AM
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that only works as long as they actually compete on neutrality rather than collude.
The evidence is they do the same thing as insurance* companies. The conglomerate/merge regionally. So they buy up all the small competitors, while excluding any meaningful competition amongs the big players. Are they colluding? Maybe not explicitly over lunch, but they know what they need to do and direct competition, as if they're commodities, would be bad for their shareholders.
* health care pre-payment with no residual value plan