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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by beatgammit on Sunday June 02, 2019 @02:07AM (#20073778)
How so? If there's a market for net neutrality, and if there's sufficient competition, someone will provide a neutral option. It just needs to be cheap enough for a competitor to enter the market for that to happen.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by namdnay on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:41AM (#20074099)
I wouldn’t be so sure... look at the cable tv market in the US. Surely there is consumer demand for clear and simple pricing and per-channel choice. And yet the free market has not provided this.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by azeotropic on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:25AM (#20074586)
In the US, the cable tv market is subject to the exact same local monopolies as the isp market; in fact, they are often the same company.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by SomeOldThrow on Sunday June 02, 2019 @02:11AM (#20073791)
The capital required to build a competing network is immense. It will never happen, and there’s way more money in getting into the existing grift.
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by austhrow743 on Sunday June 02, 2019 @03:18AM (#20074017)
Did you not read the part about the government owning the physical infrastructure?
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Re:A new round of antitrust questions can’t go well for Google by SomeOldThrow on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:44AM (#20074281)
I did lose track of who was arguing what, yes.
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