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| Frankie²:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on December 15, 2017, 12:23:26 AM ---okay so someone explain how the "current" neutrality laws prevents monopolies oh wait oops it doesn't --- End quote --- i dont think anyone is claiming that |
| SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on December 15, 2017, 12:23:26 AM ---okay so someone explain how the "current" neutrality laws prevents monopolies oh wait oops it doesn't --- End quote --- It doesn't, but that's the whole point. ISPs are natural monopolies, meaning it would be extremely expensive and impractical to make every region economically-competitive. You ever wondered why stuff like water and electrical utilities don't seem to pull the same kind of price-gouging, evil-corporate bullstuff that a lot of other industries do? It's because they legally can't. Natural monopolies are highly regulated because there's a high profit incentive for them to do things which are severely at odds to public good. |
| Foxscotch:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on December 15, 2017, 12:23:26 AM ---okay so someone explain how the "current" neutrality laws prevents monopolies oh wait oops it doesn't --- End quote --- who the fuk said it does man? cordo is supposing that repealing them helps to get rid of them; nobody said that keeping it does |
| TristanLuigi:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on December 15, 2017, 12:23:26 AM ---okay so someone explain how the "current" neutrality laws prevents monopolies oh wait oops it doesn't --- End quote --- are you serious nobody was saying it prevents monopolies; it just doesn't cause monopolies, as corderain is arguing but hey, you want an answer as to why net neutrality can promote competition? fine, why not. an ISP could limit access to competitors' websites and services, or if one ISP is much larger than a competitor, and if they were feeling especially richardish, they could throttle traffic between the two ISPs. people using the smaller ISP would be unsatisfied with a large quantity of slow connections, even though it's not their ISP's fault, so they are likely to switch; on the other hand, people using the larger ISP are unlikely to notice, since the other ISP is much smaller. and if they DO notice, they might even blame the smaller ISP. i'm not saying this WILL happen, but without net neutrality, they could do it |
| Daswiruch:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on December 15, 2017, 12:23:26 AM ---okay so someone explain how the "current" neutrality laws prevents monopolies oh wait oops it doesn't --- End quote --- it doesn't but it does prevent internet from becoming a cable situation where the provider has full control over the content that you're accessing and abuses that power to nickel-and-dime you all the way to your favorite websites |
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