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Almost all of the internet
Almost all of the internet providers that I've been with restrict packets or pre-package branded services. To the average newbie user, they wouldn't know the difference and just accept it as another fact of life.
Almost all of the internet
Almost all of the internet providers that I've been with restrict packets or pre-package branded services. To the average newbie user, they wouldn't know the difference and just accept it as another fact of life.
Not only unnecessary, but harmful
Regulation of the Internet would not only be unnecessary; it would be harmful. Regulation kills innovation and scares away investors. And "network neutrality" regulation, in particular, would drive up broadband costs, reduce quality of service (a kid down the street downloading illegal music or porn could slow you to a crawl), and make it impossible for anyone but large ISPs, with buildings full of lawyers, to deal with all of the regulation. And if we don't have competition, we're sure to have a terrible time as consumers. Instead of regulating, we need to create as much competition as possible. If every consumer has two or three other ISPs to switch to if one treats him or her badly, ISPs will bend over backward to please customers. Right now, there are quite a few competitive ISPs; in fact, there are more than 4,000 WISPs (wireless ISPs). But regulation would destroy them, leaving consumers with no choice. Our country must not go that way.
"Competition"
What competition are you talking about? There IS no "competition" in broadband, because the FCC was bought by Comcast and Verizon. They don't have to provide pipes for other ISP's as do the phone companies.
There is token competition in DSL, but it's not as widely available as is cable internet, nor is it a fast. And the telcos are trying their best to kill it.
A free market is impossible when corporations are treated as if they are human beings, because they have such enormous capital and do not die. We need a constitutional amendment denying corporations any Bill of Rights guarantees, except the right to defend themselves in lawsuits and to sue one another. They should be forbidden from suing a human being for anything other than fraud or activities which are otherwise illegal.
There's plenty of competition.
As I mentioned above, there are somewhere between 4,000 and 8,000 independent ISPs in the United States today. But if you regulate, they won't survive. The big guys, like AT&T and Verizon, have buildings full of lawyers who specialize in handling regulation; their smaller competitors can't afford that. Enforcing arbitrary, restrictive "network neutrality" regulation (which isn't "neutral" at all; it's being lobbied for by large corporations such as Google and favors them) would put them right out of business, limiting consumer choice. That regulation would also harm the quality of broadband service and raise the price of that service.
Well, economies crashed
Well, economies crashed alright, but it wasn’t because of Net Neutrality regulation. Rather it seems no regulation at all caused the economies current woes, doesn’t it?
I think, you are quite right.
New net laws?
My only issue is why do we need new laws to govern the Internet if is is supposed to be free and open? And why is it a democrat that is introducing the law?
http://johnbrandon.typepad.com/blog/2008/11/net-neutrality.html
Why is it a democrat that is introducing the law?
Because democrats want to enlarge governmental control over everything, and by enacting a law, is another form of control.
Republicans may have other motives but democrats do as well. I'm for smaller government and less controls.
No I'm not a republican! I’m an independent person (Libertarian) that is tired of be regulated to death. Being told what and where and how much is a democrat thing, lest we not remember Jimmy Carter, and Lyndon Johnson.
Libertarian Internet
Frank,
Sorry to say buddy, but the internet in your ideal world will be tolled unmercifully. This little website will have to pay at least ten times as much per megabyte transmitted as will the "partners" of the carriers. YOU will have to pay ten times more to read it than you would to read the oh-so-uplifting "content" of the "partners" of the carriers.
The carriers will charge Google's web crawlers an arm and a leg to query websites, EXCEPT those of their "partners".
Bob Dylan had it right, "Money doesn't talk it screams!"
Why a Democrat is introducing net neutrality legislation
The main reason is because the GOP continues to be and always has been the party of corporate interests and the economice elite. President Bush was not being facicous or sarcastic when he stated at a $25K per plate fundraiser in quote, "Some call all of you attending here this evening the 'haves' and 'have mores'. I call you my base." The GOP leadership have no interest or incentive to bite the hands that fill their election coffers. So therefore it takes people like Senator Dorgan who have a real conviction to do what is right for working class and small business people who have the most to gain from legislation that takes steps in the right direction to offer all internet users equal access to the most important communication system available to individuals w/o access to the halls of power inhabited by our nations economic elites.
Too good to be true?
Almost all of the internet providers that I've been with restrict packets or pre-package branded services. To the average newbie user, they wouldn't know the difference and just accept it as another fact of life.
I support Network Neutrality because the bigger corporations will also have to increase broadband technology to accomodate for the full unblocking of traffic and it will increase competition in value/content generation to regain revenue. Hopefully, that will eventually lead to bandwidth big enough to do real-time holographic interactions, sooner rather than later. *drool*
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