Net Neutrality

[Viktorthepirate]

Central planning is anathema to creativity.

And food.

So is a fucking Monopoly! Lol

If I am the only person you can buy a car from, why the fuck would I innovate?

But it does tie in with the comment you made after this one. If they break apart the monopolies I'll be in favor of net neutrality going downs but until that happens I'm firmly pro net neutrality.

The infrastructure is far too expensive to build for it to be realistic for some dark horse company to come riding in to shake things up, unless it is google doing it.

[Smitty-48]

Central planning is anathema to creativity.

And food.

So is a fucking Monopoly! Lol

If I am the only person you can buy a car from, why the fuck would I innovate?

But it does tie in with the comment you made after this one. If they break apart the monopolies I'll be in favor of net neutrality going downs but until that happens I'm firmly pro net neutrality.

The infrastructure is far too expensive to build for it to be realistic for some dark horse company to come riding in to shake things up, unless it is google doing it.

You just answered why attempting to achieve your goals via common carriers is folly. You think common carriers provide innovation and prevent monopolies? I don't know why you would think that, I mean, airlines are common carriers, how's that working out for you?

If they were to actually write a net neutrality law, might be worth looking at, but that's not actually what Obama did.

[Smitty-48]

Basically, what you're saying is that internet service is "muh roads!", in the very same breath where you screech "crumbling infrastructure!", but in this case it's even worse, because the government doesn't actually lay cable and build servers, so it's the worst of both worlds, you're killing to incentive to expand and improve upon your internet "road", without actually having an alternative government built "road" to fill the void.

If you projected that into the future, America would end up with the crumbling public utility internet road, while everybody else had super awesome futuristic private roads, and your public utility road is still not unbundled from the broadband monopolies, in fact you would have entrenched them.

[Speaker to Animals]

Nope. Just want a free market.

[Smitty-48]

Which you're not going to get from Title II of the Communications Act, quite the opposite in fact, so it's a classic case of aegrescit medendo.

[Speaker to Animals]

No. We had a free market until last week.

Without net neutrality, you sure as shit cannot have a free market. LMFAO. A child should be able to understand that fact.

[Speaker to Animals]

This merchant mentality really disgusts me. It's the one reservation I had about Trump, and turns out we are getting precious little important things like immigration reform, and a shit done of hucksterism and shakedowns. Fuck the hucksters. They are the reason the GOP was a minority party for nearly a century, and why the democrats were able to do all this damage.

That guy's going to get fired in two years. He only has two years to deliver and all he's doing is giving people reasons not to vote for him.

[Fife]

As far as the regulatory state is concerned, Thank Providence for Trump. We came within sniffing distance of Cuban internet.

His neocon foreign policy and profligate spending are sad indeed; but probably better than we would have gotten from that drunk old bitch.

[Speaker to Animals]

Thank Providence for Trump. We came within sniffing distance of Cuban internet.

You have that now. Comcast is your new Castro. Go grovel in your shit and pay your shekels.

[Fife]

MUH GIBS ALERT

MUH INTERNET IS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT

[over here, just paying my shekels and groveling in shit]

:cheers: