All Things Net Neutrality

[tshile]

Heh.

Comcast’s worst nightmare: How Tennessee could save America’s Internet - Salon.com

This is why you cannot say that capitalism, or the private sector, is the answer for everything. When your bottom line is profit motivated you can find yourself in a situation where what's best for your company, is what's worse for everyone else.

This is also why everyone should scoff when AT&T, Time Warner, Comcast, or anyone else suggests that these changes would hamper their ability to continue to bring high speed internet to as many people as possible.

Because if that was their interest they'd stop suing small municipalities for providing a better service for cheaper.

They just want to make more money. That's all this is about. I wish people would figure that out. They've literally decided that spending millions in lobbying and buying votes to outlaw competition would net them more money than trying to compete with them.

It'd be one thing if we had the best internet int he world, but we don't. In fact.. we're significantly worse off than other areas from a price-to-performance perspective. And when you factor in the numerous attempts to officially instate a 'Shutoff Switch', in addition to what the US Gov't is already doing, the idea that our internet access is less 'controlled' by Gov't forces than others is starting to become a fantasy..

We're paying top dollar for a lesser product. This is becoming a theme in this country...