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Read it and weep.. this is incredibly sinister. This is what Communists do.
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This will likely get challenged. I don't trust the FCC, nor do I trust ISPs like Comcast.
Here's the issue with our system. The way cable companies have been allowed to operate for the purposes of laying wire is monopolistic. State and federal authorities have allowed for only one cable operator in regions, granting them a total monopoly. With the phone system it's a bit different; since it's classified as a utility, anyone can operate an ISP over the phone system. This is why you often see in larger cities, 4-5 DSL operators, but only one cable operator. Cable has a government sponsored monopoly. If they're the only broadband ISP in town, as happens with many rural areas, they 100% monopolize, so no matter how much they squeeze people, they still have to pay it. Not a true free market. Never trust the state, but true net neutrality would occur if the FCC and states would stop giving their blessing to cable monopolies.
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when are people going to start rioting when the government does these thing. You know, like they do in France
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You got that right. My 10mbps connection is $66/month, If I want to upgrade to their 20mbps plan, it's $86/month. The larger city 5 miles away has many lower cost broadband plans available. |
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Products and services have different costs in different places. It isn't the government's role to equalize costs across the country. What are the rents and real estate values of that big city 5 miles away? What about their taxes? If there is a better way to offer that low priced broadband you want and still make a profit, it sounds like an awesome business opportunity you should jump on. |
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They 'stand up' when they can smash someone else's windows and not get caught. Bunch of fucking cowardly sociopathic bullies - its ingrained in their fucked up froggy culture. You may remember a little 'action' a while back where the frog 'willingness to stand their ground' saw them abandon the rest of us to deal with saddam without their fucked up froggy tanks that have 1 forward gear and 4 reverse ones. and dont get me started bout the fucking belgians |
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Automation, I has it.
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Why should a cable or phone company run more lines or increase their infrastructure if they can just increase the price of their service each year for the same bandwidth, knowing their customers have to pay it? The TVA in Tennessee does this. They've upped their prices 9 times since March. Yes, while they are mainly an electricity company, they sell broadband and cable lines, which increases everyone's costs. Hell, the CEO just got a $3m raise this year while some of their customers had to drop service because they can no longer afford it and are going without electricity. But, there is no competition in the area. My point is, in order for our country to be on par with other nations and progress, these monopolies in power and telecommunications need to stop. They work hand in hand to stifle innovation. There's no reason (other than the governments being bought off) for our country not to be able to have 100mbps connections to every home, if not 1gps, and pay what we are right now. They do it in Japan and other countries. Image what services could be provided if that speed was standard. You could be watching blue ray movies from your TV, and who knows what else. |
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Amazing to see such coherent and logical writing next to the emotional, degrading, logically devoid grunt like language that hellblazer spews. |
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You're not asking yourselves the obvious question. If they really manufactured evidence for the net neutrality "problem" and then funded several different groups to commission studies, if they explicitly stated that they had to make their activism appear organic and real, if this entire problem doesn't even exist in the first place, what law just got passed? I swear some of you are just plain retards sometimes. What we just saw was a coordinated group of people who began a very successful campaign that purported to fix a "problem" that these same people created out of whole cloth. And none of the liberal retards here wonder why? What is their goal? How are they going to use this new law? What comes next? |
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I wasn't discussing net neutrality, just discussing one of the results for allowing monopolies to exist and go unchecked. I'm with you on crazy stuff happening under our noses, but no one can deny that the carriers are a problem with messing with people's service - there's a reason there have been lawsuits against companies like Comcast. |
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Great summary on what this will do.
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^^^ Bi-Winning ^^^
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We can only hope for further advancements in technology to come along and somehow put corrupt businesses like Comcast on the endangered species list.
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-Anyway, the tech exists elsewhere (like Japan and Europe) but bad laws are in the way. New laws usually don't fix old laws; they just add crap on top. Our system sucks because we can't simply point to bad laws and say "replace that... It stinks." |
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