Net neutrality is basically Communism. Maybe after the left apologies for bringing the world Lenin and Stalin they can start lecturing us again about their greed for free stuff from other people.
didn't the last governments hollowed out public schools and other educational institutions to curb education and thus be elected by more steerable people?
If it had been called "Google/YouTube Advertising Profit Protection" instead of Net Neutrality, maybe the public would have been able to look at the whole drama with a little more detachment.
Is it really that important to us which oligopolies will capture what fraction of ad profits? Between them, they'll get all of it.
People will see what they want to see. They will not believe that anything under such a consumer friendly term would have negative affects for their internet usage. They will believe all the scare stories promoted using the same tactics politicians use everyday. We did not have this rule in place for more than a decade of internet growth and we certainly don't need government regulation now. We need government oversight which is a wholly different method of preventing abuse.
the simple fact is, the big money players didn't want upstarts to enter their markets and by blocking out a large segment of the industry from competing or offering others products they don't want to pay for they were more than happy.
a government which dictates what can be offered to you or companies using the internet is the same government that will restrict your and the companies use of the same.
I cannot count the number of people who think NN means they will get better and faster internet service, nothing could be farther from the truth. what stopped rollouts is there was not enough demand for higher speeds. widespead adoption of 4k streaming may push it forward again, who knows. yet where is the incentive under a NN style system to offer higher speeds to anyone?
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 39.6 ms ] threaddidn't the last governments hollowed out public schools and other educational institutions to curb education and thus be elected by more steerable people?
Is it really that important to us which oligopolies will capture what fraction of ad profits? Between them, they'll get all of it.
the simple fact is, the big money players didn't want upstarts to enter their markets and by blocking out a large segment of the industry from competing or offering others products they don't want to pay for they were more than happy.
a government which dictates what can be offered to you or companies using the internet is the same government that will restrict your and the companies use of the same.
I cannot count the number of people who think NN means they will get better and faster internet service, nothing could be farther from the truth. what stopped rollouts is there was not enough demand for higher speeds. widespead adoption of 4k streaming may push it forward again, who knows. yet where is the incentive under a NN style system to offer higher speeds to anyone?
If the author can't make a point without profanity, the thoughts aren't well-formed enough.
Hacker News should be better than this.