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RE: NET NEUTRALITY | Would Repealing Net Neutrality Bring Back Internet Privacy?
If it came down to it and someone was throttling or charging more for something like Netflix or YouTube, then someone else would see this as a business opportunity.
Hence, why I pay less for my fiber connection than I was paying for my old Internet connection. Competition drove the price down.
Except the issue is the complete opposite. A start up would likely not have the money to pay the ISPs like Netflix and Google have.
The idea of this is that ISPs throttling the internet actually hurts competition and growing websites by putting them at a disadvantage to those that have the money.
Netflix paid for Comcast upgrade so that they would stop throttling their site.
Amazing what happens when there's a market demand and someone swoops into to fill it. It's almost like businesses seek to serve the interests of potential customers because it's profitable.
That fact that many areas of the USA ISPs have a legal monopoly on broadband service , makes your point totally irrelevant.
The regional monopolies are definitely a problem, but let's fix that problem instead of acting like the US gov will be our saviour, when in fact it only exasperates the problem by raising the barriers to entry on new ISPs.
Net neutrality was a way to spread socialism via the internet ;)