Re:Cato Institute: The Case Against Net Neutrality
by stretchwithme on Thursday December 23, 2010 @03:42AM
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Better yet, let's have politics decide all economic questions. Then there'll be no gaming of anything.
Re:Cato Institute: The Case Against Net Neutrality
by FluidDjango on Thursday December 23, 2010 @06:05AM
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Isn't there enough evidence that this is the status quo?
Re:Cato Institute: The Case Against Net Neutrality
by stretchwithme on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:40PM
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sadly
Re:Cato Institute: The Case Against Net Neutrality
by andreyf on Thursday December 23, 2010 @03:04AM
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Why is that so hard?
Re:Cato Institute: The Case Against Net Neutrality
by ef4 on Thursday December 23, 2010 @05:36AM
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Because "the government" is an abstraction. In reality the decisions have to be made by specific people with specific interests and biases.
People with regulatory decision-making power are, by definition, powerful. So they have the interests of powerful people, which are unlikely to match the interests of most of the rest of us.
Re:Cato Institute: The Case Against Net Neutrality
by FluidDjango on Thursday December 23, 2010 @06:05AM
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More importantly, government is an organization.
The foremost motive for an organization (like any organiam) is self-preservation. Transparency is usually perceived as a vulnerability that might allow enemies to attack.
"There is an obvious and simple solution to [players with a special interest to try to game the system] - transparency and openness in decision making."
Couldn't your argument be applied anytime someone objected to the unnecessary intrusion of government regulation? "Oh, we'll just have the government make decisions in an transparent and open way. Problem solved."