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Regulations are not the answer, for the very reason that they will flip-flop with political appointees, and it amounts to people begging for what they rightly should demand.
The inconsistency in this position is prioritizing killing off net neutrality regulations while the thicket of regulations which cement the ISP oligopoly remain in place to be dispensed with probably never.
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Well up until election 2016, Democrats were vehemently opposed to states authority, and concentrated far more power in Washington during the Obama administration. It's nice to see them coming around.
(not) surprisingly, republicans have all but disappeared from that chat. at the federal level, both parties only care about state rights when it suits them.
How is refusing to participate in an identity theft investigation not obstruction of justice? Surely Ajit & co travel to NY from time to time... why isn’t there an arrest warrant? Why are the states being so toothless in responding to rampant criminal behavior? I’d like to see how I would fare if I participated in mass scale identity theft and refused to participate in the subsequent investigation.
More and more we see state agencies standing up to regime change in Washington (ex: CA and environmental regulations). Regardless of your personal politics, I wonder how this dynamic will affect democracy in the US.
Well up until election 2016, Democrats were vehemently opposed to states authority, and concentrated far more power in Washington during the Obama administration. It's nice to see them coming around.
No they weren't. This is a total lie. I'd call it a mis-characterization but it's been beaten down so much that you have to be purposefully lying at this point to keep repeating it.
To play devil’s advocate, are we really ready for Internet to be regulated like a public utility? Like water, we will need to pay more the more we consume. You and I can pay but what about poor people? Will this discourage Internet usage?
Not necessarily; under utility pricing your bill might be $49 for maintenance of the network and $1 for usage.
To play devil’s advocate, are we really ready for Internet to be regulated like a public utility? Like water, we will need to pay more the more we consume. You and I can pay but what about poor people? Will this discourage Internet usage?
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They could try but the FCC would almost certainly contest that the states do not have the right to pass such laws. Additionally there is nothing stopping the FCC from passing rules forbidding states from regulating net neutrality.
States could make life really hard for the companies. Impose taxes on those that are not neutral, make permitting difficult and even start up state run internet.
The cartel practices of the ISP oligopoly is a separate issue. They bought the state legislatures. The people of each state that is under the influence of the ISP cartels should demand an open internet for their state.
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Well up until election 2016, Democrats were vehemently opposed to states authority, and concentrated far more power in Washington during the Obama administration. It's nice to see them coming around.
>Democrats were vehemently opposed to states authority No they weren't. This is a total lie. I'd call it a mis-characterization but it's been beaten down so much that you have to be purposefully lying at this point to keep repeating it.
To play devil’s advocate, are we really ready for Internet to be regulated like a public utility? Like water, we will need to pay more the more we consume. You and I can pay but what about poor people? Will this discourage Internet usage?
Yes.
> Like water, we will need to pay more the more we consume.
We already do, though it's more noticeable for mobile broadband. Also, not all public utilities are metered—I’ve lived in places with unmetered public water, for instance, so the connection you draw between metering and public utilities is false.
> You and I can pay but what about poor people?
Public utilities are often subsidized for the poor (that's actually one way that broadband is already treated like a public utility).