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Sep 20, 2017
7:36:42am

Mike Honcho All-American

Internet service is not truly a free market. How many ISPs can you choose from

at your house? If you're lucky, maybe 3 or 4. Many places it's just 1 or 2. In our case, it's Comcast and that's it, unless we want terrible Satellite internet or extremely slow DSL.

If ISPs truly operated in a free market I'd be more inclined to agree with you.

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Net neutrality is great for poor college kids, bad for everyone else

jrifkin48

9/20/17 7:21am

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cvd6262

9/20/17 7:27am

So you'd be ok if your ISP charged you more for watching Netflix?

Mike Honcho

9/20/17 7:30am

They don't. The free market would have Netflix ensure they streamed fast

jrifkin48

9/20/17 7:33am

Until each of those services make deals with individual ISPs to throttle all the

9/20/17 7:36am

If it was that bad a new or emerging competitor would show up

jrifkin48

9/20/17 7:38am

See Mike Hancho's reply below.

9/20/17 7:41am

How? Using what infrastructure? That's like saying if your water company started

Mike Honcho

9/20/17 7:41am

The horseless carriage was nuts as well with the lack of infrastructure

jrifkin48

9/20/17 8:04am

Exactly Net Neutrality ensures the internet remains like the system of roads.

BYUtka

9/20/17 8:13am

Sure, wireless may be easier from an infrastructure standpoint - relatively

Mike Honcho

9/20/17 8:17am

He will just say that new wireless companies will emerge, nevermind the finite

9/20/17 8:58am

Cars? The government builds, maintains, and regulates the infrastructure

Nathanael Greene

9/20/17 8:17am

Yep. It proves the opposite point.

BYUtka

9/20/17 8:20am

Internet service is not truly a free market. How many ISPs can you choose from

Mike Honcho

9/20/17 7:36am

Exactly! That is one of the reasons we need net Neutrality. It helps keep things

BYUtka

9/20/17 7:41am

It also imposes major regulatory burdens that keep smaller ISPs from emerging

fbguru

9/20/17 7:55am

They are fine with big ISPs. They are just worried about shady websites

jrifkin48

9/20/17 7:57am

I have no interest in shady websites. I have interest in not paying more to

BYUtka

9/20/17 8:03am

RE: They are fine with big ISPs. They are just worried about shady websites

9/20/17 8:11am

Or they're cord cutters worried about paying an arm and a leg to watch TV

Mike Honcho

9/20/17 8:21am

Some examples? In what way does it do this?

BYUtka

9/20/17 8:00am

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SLC-Warrior

9/20/17 8:11am

The internet may need regulation to actually make it free.

Baron

9/20/17 8:16am

Sadly life isn't that simple. Free Market would be best, but you cannot just

BYUtka

9/20/17 8:20am

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SLC-Warrior

9/20/17 8:23am

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JuicyJam

9/20/17 8:25am

Yes... yes they do.

tarzan15

9/20/17 9:18am

There are plenty of legitimate uses for bit torrent

9/20/17 7:31am

I'm not in favor of net neutrality, but your reasoning is suspect.

fbguru

9/20/17 7:33am

This article shows the reason I am not for net neutrality

fbguru

9/20/17 7:47am

That article doesn't cite any ways it would hurt them outside 'it would take

BYUtka

9/20/17 8:11am

There may be flaws in implementation, sure. But the theory behind it is good

Mike Honcho

9/20/17 8:26am

Netflix streaming might have never existed without it

Hsaru

9/20/17 7:39am

That could be. It's a better argument than those who want their pirate websites

jrifkin48

9/20/17 7:42am

Netflix streaming was well established long before Net Neutrality.

9/20/17 10:03am

Except when your ISP decides to create a competing service to Netflix

mottman

9/20/17 7:42am

To their own detriment. Something would emerge to offer a better product

jrifkin48

9/20/17 7:48am

And how would you use it when your local Internet Monopoly throttles it?

mottman

9/20/17 7:50am

I have 5 options for ISPs where I live. I can leverage the competition

jrifkin48

9/20/17 7:52am

Ah lucky you. Not everyone is so fortunate.

mottman

9/20/17 8:25am

You are fine, so forget about everyone else. No hurricane here, so Houston

BYUtka

9/20/17 8:28am

Couldn't you have the regulation only apply where there is no competition? Why

rcbyufan

9/20/17 9:26am

Even in areas with a few more choices, there is no real open competition. And

BYUtka

9/20/17 10:07am

Take a look at this, then

Mike Honcho

9/20/17 8:32am

We don't live in 2010. We live in 2017. There can't be throttling of Netflix.

fbguru

9/20/17 7:50am

I like this article and agree with it that more competition is necessary.

Nathanael Greene

9/20/17 9:57am

FIFY:Net Neutrality is good for customers and society and bad for greedy

BYUtka

9/20/17 7:59am

Stupid poor millennials with their shady websites!

douglasturtle

9/20/17 9:02am

You obviously have no idea what you're talking about

DapperDan

9/20/17 9:18am

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