[ale] Republicans’ “Internet Freedom Act” would wipe out net neutrality | Ars Technica

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 3/7/2015 9:40 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> I would to break them into access provider and content provider. 
> Customers can buy content from either or both regardless of access 
> method.
>
> There's still opportunity for abuse no matter the split. :-(
>
> On Mar 7, 2015 9:21 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com 
> <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 03/07/2015 08:50 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>     >
>     > On Mar 7, 2015 8:31 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
>     <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>
>     > <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com <mailto:DJPfulio at jdpfu.com>>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> On 03/07/2015 08:08 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>     >> > The Republican definition of freedom generally refers only to
>     owners and never
>     >> > to users.
>     >> >
>     >>
>     >> If there is plenty of competition - perhaps 10 competitors, I
>     don't have an
>     >> issue with the network owner being allowed to seek niche spaces
>     in the market.
>     >> Some people may want to pay to have proactive blocking? I dunno.
>     >>
>     >> When there are fewer competitors, or an effective monopoly
>     (like we have with
>     >> broadband service in the USA), the customers may need
>     protections - mainly after
>     >> the company has proven to be anti-customer in the past on
>     numerous occasions.
>     >> Competition is clearly not working in those cases.
>     >
>     > +1
>     >
>     > There's no competition for broadband now.
>     >
>     > I have a problem with an access provider also being in the
>     content creation
>     > business as well.
>
>     There are some places with an effective monopoly for broadband and
>     the clients
>     are happy. This is usually when a smaller, local, company or coop
>     does the
>     connections.
>
>     Perhaps it is time to break up Comcast and AT&T broadband services
>     into 50
>     smaller companies?
>     _______________________________________________
>

I'm leery about that.  It didn't work out so well for natural gas.
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