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RE: DTube - The END Of Net Neutrality Is HERE! - Why This Is A GOOD Thing (with Jeffrey Tucker)
Don't the major internet providers already own most of the infrastructure? How can new competition spring up if the barriers to entry are already so high? Am I missing something here?
That's part of the issue. As I said in the video, it's only the beginning because of course there are still government monopolies everywhere thanks to the regulatory and tax burden the government puts on any competition. Big government is a friend to big corporations. But we cannot change this by growing the government further while all of these major corporations cheer on government regulation of the internet, like net neutrality.
So actually it's pretty easy to set up a network... One major pro-NN argument is that there's a lot of places that only have one ISP to choose from and therefore they're at their mercy... when that's kinda a ridiculous notion, actually. If we remove as many artificial barriers for entry into this industry as we can, you may see a lot of grassroots competition springing up. Ajit Pai actually does talk about this topic at length, specifically regarding his Broadband Development initiatives.