Net Neutrality --- For Once, Everyone Wins

Utility monopolies are subject to very restrictive government oversight. They have to ask permission to raise prices, and the granting of those increases is very political. The price increases must be justified as do capital expenditures.Cable companies are not regulated to nearly that extent, and yet their semi-monopoly positions are protected by legislation every bit as protective as the utilities. In many locations it is impossible, for example, for a municipality to develop a internet coop that completes with ISPs. Some ISPs have notoriously bad services and high prices, yet their is little competition and no impetus to change.

Internet companies are already treating customers badly. What exactly is your point?

Explain your reasoning, please.

For the most part, employers who cut hours and blamed it on ACA were full of crap. I don't blame ACA for those actions. Temps and part-time are nothing new, anyway.You are not providing an argument or an explanation. You are just asserting stuff. If the ISPs are allowed to tier content, what is to stop them from charging customers more for accessing higher tier content? The service providers have already demonstrated that they do not require government excuses to pass on high costs and poor service to customers.What I am asking is an explanation of why customers should expect worse from ISPs under net neutrality than without net neutrality. Why isn't the answer to bad service and high prices increasing competition rather than giving ISPs more leverage to over charge?

If we want to call local public efforts to provide internet access socialist, a point that I don't concede, then what should we call state government laws that to prevent voters from providing public assess for their communities. Surely those kind of laws are something other than free market capitalism.Who voted for this shite again?

I was thinking of those folks who voted in those politicians. Although democrats seem to be no less corruptible than republicans, we've always known how the republicans felt about net neutrality, and we've known for a long time that we were one vote away from the loss of net neutrality. The current outcome was entirely predictable, and folks should have taken it into account at the last election.Even more serious is the silent overhaul of the justice system. In addition to not allowing Obama to pick a Supreme Court justice, the republicans held open countless federal judge openings for Trump that should have been filled by Obama. Those positions are being filled with ideologues who in at least a few cases are not even legally competent.Damage is being to our country on a daily basis and the loss of net neutrality is just one example of that. We get another attempt to put brakes on this stuff in 2018. And there are plenty of new faces out there freshly energized by after this year's inauguration and subsequent protests.

When you say, "can't" do you mean that such things are technically difficult, or that they are impractical, or that they are illegal.I don't believe there are any obstacles to Comcast doing exactly that. The packets running through a network contain information about both the source and the destination. Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

You are ignoring the incentives Netflix would have to make an arrangement with the Comcast due to Comcast having their hands on the throats of Netflix and any of Netflix competitors. I expect that Netflix will quickly come to an accommodation with Comcast or whoever is one of the 1-2 providers the average computer user has available. Exactly. There is no "can't" here. There are no real technical issues, and no significant relationship barriers either.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Again, that is simply not a significant obstacle. I expect that Netflix and Comcast will reach an accommodation quickly. Netflix has no other choice.And you are right. You did not mention any technical issues. You did not give reasons, which is why I asked for your thoughts on the matter.

There is a short list of ISPs that really matter, and the content providers will be gotten to on a priority basis. I imagine that Netflix is way up there on the priority list.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.