Re:TIL: Andreessen, Thiel, Cuban, IBM, Intel Are Against Net...
by AnimalMuppet on Friday December 08, 2017 @06:17PM
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> Net Neutrality allows the government to control the internet.
Well... Net Neutrality allows the government to prohibit certain actions on the internet. That's a form of control, true, but it's a long way from "control the internet". (See the Great Firewall of China, or worse, North Korea for what "controlling the internet" can really mean.)
Governments - even free governments - always prohibit a subset of actions. We have freedom of speech, for example, but not freedom to falsely advertise.
> We all agree that ISP monopolies are a problem, and that's what should be tackled. It's much better to give monopolies competition that to force them to be fair.
Well... Net Neutrality allows the government to prohibit certain actions on the internet. That's a form of control, true, but it's a long way from "control the internet". (See the Great Firewall of China, or worse, North Korea for what "controlling the internet" can really mean.)
Governments - even free governments - always prohibit a subset of actions. We have freedom of speech, for example, but not freedom to falsely advertise.
> We all agree that ISP monopolies are a problem, and that's what should be tackled. It's much better to give monopolies competition that to force them to be fair.
Here I will agree with you.