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Re:Craig Newmark on net neutrality by dfranke on Friday March 30, 2007 @01:03PM (#7596)
My knee-jerk reaction was to agree with Cato, but the problem is that broadband isn't a free market. The telcoms have been legislated into monopolistic conglomerates. The damage caused by those laws is already done; repealing them now wouldn't help. So, although in a perfect world I'd be in favor of competing telcoms and against net neutrality laws, a government-created, government-regulated monopoly is better than a government-created, unregulated monopoly.
Re:Craig Newmark on net neutrality by MobileDigit on Saturday March 31, 2007 @05:22AM (#7799)
Why would repealing laws not help now?
Re:Craig Newmark on net neutrality by dfranke on Saturday March 31, 2007 @01:58PM (#7840)
Because the big telcoms already monopolize the infrastructure so no new startup is going to be able to compete with them head-on.
Re:Craig Newmark on net neutrality by lupin_sansei on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @10:10PM (#14409)
But repealing the laws would allow them to compete with each other.