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Anyone who thinks this is ok

Zpike

May 7, 2014, 9:22 PM
should consider that no one who both understands the internet and who isn't affiliated with an ISP thinks this is a good idea.
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sp_5015

May 8, 2014, 11:13 AM
Please elaborate...i'm interested in what you have to say, but I'm not fully sure what you mean.
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Zpike

May 8, 2014, 2:06 PM
Just look at the list of companies that are complaining. These are all companies that are involved with the infrastructure of the internet in one way or another. But seemingly absent are the ISP's who know they stand to gain an unfair advantage if this legislation passes.

Imagine for a moment, if you will, an internet with no content - no scholarly papers, no youtube, no facebook, no streaming content, no memes, no news, no software downloads, no games, no driver updates, patches and os fixes. Would you pay ATT for access to that internet? The point I am trying to make is that consumers pay ATT for access to content created by other organizations.

It is those organizations who have done their due diligence to make the internet happen. ...
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sp_5015

May 8, 2014, 2:21 PM
Perfectly put. When I first read it, I thought you were arguing for ISP's. What do you think about the idea of designating ISP's and cell providers as public utilities and actually regulating them?
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Zpike

May 9, 2014, 10:36 AM
>>What do you think about the idea of designating ISP's and cell providers as public utilities and actually regulating them?

Double edged sword. Utilities are glorified monopolies, and we have a plenty of problems because of those. However, regulating them as utilities is far better than this bull crap.

The best case scenario would be a politician who doesn't lie and abuse public tax dollars actually holding these companies to their promises they made in the 80's. And since they promised us a fiber network and built copper instead, and since they use tax dollars to do it... their crappy networks ought to be public property. The government ought to seize their networks and open them up as a public resource and then let anyone offer comp...
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sp_5015

May 9, 2014, 11:47 AM
"The best case scenario would be a politician who doesn't lie and abuse public tax dollars actually holding these companies to their promises"

That really is the root of it all. Wheeler trying to help his buddies out...now that's the icing on the cake.
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Zpike

May 9, 2014, 2:02 PM
And the fact that he was appointed by an administration that is supposedly the most open in history and a friend of the middle class is the spoon with which we shall eat it.
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