Re:As the U.S. Retreats, Canada Doubles Down on Net Neutrality
by TheRealPomax on Saturday December 16, 2017 @06:08AM
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That's a false chain of reasoning. It's a regulatory device that prevents discrimination of service based on content and origin. It does not hamper free market competition, it protects human beings from monopolies and cartels and sets up the legal framework within which the free market is allowed to operate. Pretty much every industry has these regulations, and the market's doing just fine. You can't have an actually working free market without a regulatory oversight to act as feedback coupling. You need a dampening force, it just needs to be appropriate to the times, and net neutrality is appropriate to the now.
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Re:As the U.S. Retreats, Canada Doubles Down on Net Neutrality
by lloeki on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @01:22PM
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> That's a false chain of reasoning.
Agreed, I was merely outlining the opposite side argument in a very concise way so that it's immediately obvious how much broken it is.
> It does not hamper free market competition, it protects human beings from monopolies and cartels and sets up the legal framework within which the free market is allowed to operate.
This is precisely my opinion, as stated in my second paragraph.