For the life of me, and for this exact reason, I can't understand the net neutrality movement.
It's a bunch of people arguing that we have a problem and the most likely party to fix it is the government.
But this article is an example of exactly what the government does when you give them power to control things. They write in loopholes, pork, or they just flat out do a half assed job of drafting legislation. And then we see the deluge of unintended consequences
Wake up, People! The government is not here to fix your problems.
Private firms with monopoly power never last, unless that monopoly power is augmented by the government.
The Comcast "monopoly" is in the process of falling apart, on one side from Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu and on the other side from Google fiber, 5G wireless, mesh networking, and perhaps even the Elon musk LEO satellite Internet plan.
The Willis Graham Act nullified the Kingsbury Commitment by which the government had tried to stop the unfettered expansion of Ma Bell, since it hadn't actually worked the government shifted to trying to regulate Ma Bell itself through the ICC (and the FCC a few years later).
Either can exert good and bad influences. Neither business nor government is your friend. Both can be large and unwieldy, and large entities often step on smaller ones even if inadvertently.
Unfortunately, we just have to be vigilant and exert our own influence to push things in a favorable direction. No one else will.
"For the life of me, and for this exact reason, I can't understand the net neutrality movement."
We don't want a company deciding what we can and cannot view on the internet.
"It's a bunch of people arguing that we have a problem and the most likely party to fix it is the government."
They're the only party with enough power to do so.
"But this article is an example of exactly what the government does when you give them power to control things. They write in loopholes, pork, or they just flat out do a half assed job of drafting legislation. And then we see the deluge of unintended consequences"
And Comcast is blameless in this? Are they not run by adults, who know exactly what they're doing, and can take responsibility for their actions?
"Wake up, People! The government is not here to fix your problems."
Actually, that's kinda their entire purpose for existing.
It's a bunch of people arguing that we have a problem and the most likely party to fix it is the government.
But this article is an example of exactly what the government does when you give them power to control things. They write in loopholes, pork, or they just flat out do a half assed job of drafting legislation. And then we see the deluge of unintended consequences
Wake up, People! The government is not here to fix your problems.