Thanks for getting back to me SG, appreciate it. Yep. Maybe we can get there by forcing private ownership of tier 3 to re-sell bandwidth wholesale? Isn't that happening in wireless to some extent? This I don't get. Anyone should be mad at a stupid, incompetent, possibly corrupt city manager. But the businessman who deliberately subverts capitalism? We need to stop worshiping cowards to deliberately leverage power to avoiding competition as having 'killer instinct.' It's cowardly. When you value people's freedom to subvert other people's freedom, it's time to take a step back and really look at the situation. I don't get why on one hand we decry the lefty big government types who want to regulate markets, but the businessmen who deliberately undermine the free market and competition (arguably the most important ingredient of capitalism) are bold and worthy of praise?
Here's what I don't get. The internet is probably the one thing that the gov't created that we can all agree on works pretty darn well. I mean, phenomenally well. Amazing innovation, resulting in growing and booming our economy. Why on earth should we let Republicans getting loads of money from Lobbyists muck it up? It doesn't need fixing. Leave it alone.
No it's not. They want to end net neutrality and allow ISP's to discriminate based on the content of the data. And if you do that, ISP's will, they have already tried to in the past. Comcast was guilty of intentionally slowing down certain traffic. The net succeeded because of net neutrality. Don't change it. It would be the stupidiest thing. Let's make a few more cable operators and ISP's happy and kill the U.S. as the leader in internet innovation. The next Google can be in Russia. What idiocy.
