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Topic	With Net Neutrality ending today I just wanted to say it was nice knowing yall
Gamer99z 12/14/17 12:49:13 PM #42:	Mal_Fet posted... I Like Toast posted... Mal_Fet posted... At least people are able to change their ISP if they don't like their service Lol Yes. Competition is a good thing. Many parts of the country don't have access to multiple high speed companies though. Myself included, why else would I have the shitty company I have now with a garbage data cap? Which I didn't have until a big company bought my small local ISP and made a deal with the city for tax breaks. My only option would be to switch to satellite which is significantly slower, goes out when it rains, and has an even smaller data cap. My ISP could pretty much do anything and there's nothing I could do about it because I need internet for work and school purposes. And no amount of bitching would work, they're already got piss poor reviews all over the internet because of their data caps and shitty service. The only way they'd care is if somehow a notable chunk of people out here agreed to drop them, which since they're the only ISP isn't likely to happen. Mal_Fet posted... CableZL posted... Mal_Fet posted... Because the free market (ideally) ensures competition will drive costs down and services up. And there's 5 different big ISPs in my city to choose from. The internet service industry in the US is not a free market. True, we should make it freer. Repealing NN is one way to do that. If argue at this point that the internet as a platform has become an essential part of modern life as well as a market of it's own, a market that maintaining NN would keep as free as possible for the large number of business that's done largely or exclusively online these days. --- "You need to lay off the peanut-butthurt and u-jelly sandwiches" - Neon Octopus <cite>Gamer99z posted [p:892207045] in With Net N... [t:76098270]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mal_Fet posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>I Like Toast posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>Mal_Fet posted...</cite> <quote> At least people are able to change their ISP if they don't like their service </quote> Lol </quote> Yes. Competition is a good thing.</quote> Many parts of the country don't have access to multiple high speed companies though. Myself included, why else would I have the shitty company I have now with a garbage data cap? Which I didn't have until a big company bought my small local ISP and made a deal with the city for tax breaks. My only option would be to switch to satellite which is significantly slower, goes out when it rains, and has an even smaller data cap. My ISP could pretty much do anything and there's nothing I could do about it because I need internet for work and school purposes. And no amount of bitching would work, they're already got piss poor reviews all over the internet because of their data caps and shitty service. The only way they'd care is if somehow a notable chunk of people out here agreed to drop them, which since they're the only ISP isn't likely to happen. <cite>Mal_Fet posted...</cite> <quote><cite>CableZL posted...</cite> <quote> <cite>Mal_Fet posted...</cite> <quote> Because the free market (ideally) ensures competition will drive costs down and services up. And there's 5 different big ISPs in my city to choose from. </quote> The internet service industry in the US is not a free market.</quote> True, we should make it freer. Repealing NN is one way to do that.</quote> If argue at this point that the internet as a platform has become an essential part of modern life as well as a market of it's own, a market that maintaining NN would keep as free as possible for the large number of business that's done largely or exclusively online these days. --- "You need to lay off the peanut-butthurt and u-jelly sandwiches" - Neon Octopus</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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