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

[Jay Lozier]

On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 09:19 -0500, DJ-Pfulio 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>> 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?

To me, the better solution is not allow the there to be local
monopolies. In many communities, the monopoly exists because local
governments granted an exclusive franshise to a cable provider. A
single, local provider in theory means better local control but CobbEMC
management had been defrauding the members for years. As someone who
lives in their service area I would love the chance to use someone else.
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