Net Nuetrality...

Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot

If there is only one vendor in your area, and they do a poor job, then someone else will start a competing vendor

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Actually...This isn't true in all areas. My sandbar is a fine example. You have two choices for internet. Charter, and Centrylink(Aka Embarq before bought). TV you got three..Charter, Directv, or Dish.

Family of mine lives in Va. Their apartment complex has a deal with an ISP an it's the only one you can use. My family who is having to deal with all this is pissed cause it's always going out, or having issues. She can't change tho without moving.

I dislike government involved in a lot of things, but I also dislike being forced to use something i may not want to, which is exactly what would have happened. I like to have choices. I don't think it's cool for a ISP/Cable Company/whatever to be able to throttle back usage. Or determine for me whose site I use or don't.

Regulation isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes it needs to be done. Utilities fall in that category for me. Regulation comes about when people get greedy, stupid, or both.

Sirscrapalot - Go to hell for the company, an heaven for climate - Mark Twain

Sounds to me like the problem is the apartment complex rather than a internet speed or internet company problem. This appears to have an "apartment complex in VA." solution rather than an "everybody in the United States" solution. I, in Sarasota, Florida, should not be forced, at the point of a gun, to abide by a resolution to an apartment complex in VA problem.

The easiest fix would be to move. Next would be to remove the "only one cable company in my apartment complex" knucklehead from "apartment complex in VA" power structure.

Originally Posted by WestCoastProspector

Most of the major American ISPs built their infrastructure using government money and can only stay financially viable due to having locked, long-term (upwards of 30 year) contracts that were built in an era when the internet wasn't understood. Be realistic, if you could change your cable company, wouldn't you? My house was a one-horse town for years in that regard and let me tell you it was absolutely terrible. Service outages all the time, slow load times (far below what was advertised) and no customer service to speak of. Then a new company arrives on the scene and we've been with them ever since, no complaints.

The campaigns pushing against net neutrality are sponsored by the big guys, because they want to be able to put netflix out of business to make people watch their own OnDemand services. Normally, I'd never advocate government intervention in anything, but until these contracts expire or are revoked, and companies like ComCast have to deal with real competition, there's no reason why they shouldn't be regulated the way they are. They really are just state corporations by any other name.

You say you know what is in the bill, but google and comcast and verizon and the biggies wrote the bill. We have no idea what is in the law, we only know it will give the government control over internet content, distribution and service. We have to pass the law to know what is in the law. Pardon me if I do not trust that line or method of restricting freedom of capitalistic association. $1,500/month health insurance with a $6,000/year deductible, anyone? that worked out well now that we can see it after we passed it.