This is stupid. This has never been done and any ISP that attempts it will lose customers instantly. Net Neutrality freaks never take into account that YES, these ISPs *do* have to serve their customers! I'm sick of hearing OMG MY INTERNETS IZ T00 EXP3NSIVE!!1! Get over it. I feel like my ISP is too expensive but I pay it voluntarily. I'd rather voluntarily pay a high price for high speed than for my options to be restricted by force of government. With expensive new infrastructure like Fiber Optics, they'll have to charge a premium for it at first. It's higher performance! What's so irrational about that?I have heard of bandwidth or data transfer caps, but never site access restrictions. The market would be in an uproar the moment that happened. WE DO NOT NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO REGULATE THE INTERNET.
Most people are aware of Corporate practice. I was simply articulating it for the point of the discussion. And I was careful to make the distinction of 'virtual' monopolies. You do fail to recognize that the 'competition' tends to be other supersized companies that are able to withstand predatory pricing. And even so, there is a disturbing trend for the CEO's in the Big Boys Club to undertake practices such as market divvying to avoid the costs that come with competition.Companies such as Walmart, or say BigW in Australia are also increasingly sourcing products from places like China. The goods are cheaper no doubt. But that is due largely to the inequity of labor costs based on minimum standards of employment. Local employers are not allowed to subject employee's to conditions with which foreign items are produced. The importation of goods are not regulated, and local producers can't compete equally. The supersized bulk importing virtually eliminates the freight costs that render the abuse of Chinese workers unfeasible. And have no noticed the trade deficit between the U.S. and China. Non regulation isn't always a good thing.As for governments selling out. It is a highly disturbing trend and points out a fatal flaw in Democracy. The choice of the lesser of two evils isn't really a choice. And as Corporations increase with influence due to unregulated size and influence, things degrade. The Corporate Motto is hardly "by the people, for the people"
and that wouldn't happen, for the very reasons i listed. There are too many other companies that rely on the free exchange of data for the limiting of what sites you can travel to to be allowed.
this is making me wanna barf! this will be a dark day in hell further pushing me to move away from the states to gain some sort of freedom. imagine all the sites around the world you will loose access to. could get to a point of them charging for emails, like phone calls. 10 cents an email. boooooooooooooooooooo
totally, and getting back to a more underground pipeline. i would chip in to lay some fiber from my house to yours, and yours to his, and his to hers, and voila, we have a ISP!
Infrastructive is expensive, yes, but if people were allowedt to make windfall profits infrastructive would soon become cheap, and windfall profits could not exist any longer.
realunderdogSep 22, 2007
While I agree with your post up to a point, I'm still forced to pay for the state schools by massive taxes.
stealthcSep 22, 2007
This is stupid. This has never been done and any ISP that attempts it will lose customers instantly. Net Neutrality freaks never take into account that YES, these ISPs *do* have to serve their customers! I'm sick of hearing OMG MY INTERNETS IZ T00 EXP3NSIVE!!1! Get over it. I feel like my ISP is too expensive but I pay it voluntarily. I'd rather voluntarily pay a high price for high speed than for my options to be restricted by force of government. With expensive new infrastructure like Fiber Optics, they'll have to charge a premium for it at first. It's higher performance! What's so irrational about that?I have heard of bandwidth or data transfer caps, but never site access restrictions. The market would be in an uproar the moment that happened. WE DO NOT NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO REGULATE THE INTERNET.
myztrySep 23, 2007
Most people are aware of Corporate practice. I was simply articulating it for the point of the discussion. And I was careful to make the distinction of 'virtual' monopolies. You do fail to recognize that the 'competition' tends to be other supersized companies that are able to withstand predatory pricing. And even so, there is a disturbing trend for the CEO's in the Big Boys Club to undertake practices such as market divvying to avoid the costs that come with competition.Companies such as Walmart, or say BigW in Australia are also increasingly sourcing products from places like China. The goods are cheaper no doubt. But that is due largely to the inequity of labor costs based on minimum standards of employment. Local employers are not allowed to subject employee's to conditions with which foreign items are produced. The importation of goods are not regulated, and local producers can't compete equally. The supersized bulk importing virtually eliminates the freight costs that render the abuse of Chinese workers unfeasible. And have no noticed the trade deficit between the U.S. and China. Non regulation isn't always a good thing.As for governments selling out. It is a highly disturbing trend and points out a fatal flaw in Democracy. The choice of the lesser of two evils isn't really a choice. And as Corporations increase with influence due to unregulated size and influence, things degrade. The Corporate Motto is hardly "by the people, for the people"
squigglypSep 24, 2007
and that wouldn't happen, for the very reasons i listed. There are too many other companies that rely on the free exchange of data for the limiting of what sites you can travel to to be allowed.
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this is making me wanna barf! this will be a dark day in hell further pushing me to move away from the states to gain some sort of freedom. imagine all the sites around the world you will loose access to. could get to a point of them charging for emails, like phone calls. 10 cents an email. boooooooooooooooooooo
crocheoniMar 5, 2008
totally, and getting back to a more underground pipeline. i would chip in to lay some fiber from my house to yours, and yours to his, and his to hers, and voila, we have a ISP!
mentalhazardMar 14, 2008
If telephone companies weren't monopolies in the first place nobody would even be thinking about net neutrality.
mentalhazardMar 14, 2008
Infrastructive is expensive, yes, but if people were allowedt to make windfall profits infrastructive would soon become cheap, and windfall profits could not exist any longer.
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I can totally see the asstunnels (AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, etc.) Getting together and hatching this craphole scheme. they already do it for cable. Basic cable has crap channels, the better channels are up a few tiers. Why wouldn't they apply the same logic to the internet.it's all about the money. <a class="user" href="http://ladies-wide-shoes.blogspot.com/">http://ladies-wide-shoes.blogspot.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://hosting-linux2u.blogspot.com/">http://hosting-linux2u.blogspot.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://prostate-cancer-options.blogspot.com/">http://prostate-cancer-options.blogspot.com/</a>
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