Net Neutrality pt.2

[Lissa]

So, you'd prefer a situation like what Portugal is in now? Where you have to pay for all kinds of tiers to access certain things? Do you even know what Net Neutrality actually is (cause it sure doesn't sound like it)?

TLDR: You don't know what Net Neutrality is.

I would rather have no internet at all, than live in a country that rules not by law or order, but by the whim of bureaucrats.

I would rather the free market find solutions. When the gov't was in cahoots with the railroads in the 1800s you could have asked the same question. "Would you rather have goods ran by horse across country at MUCH higher prices?!" I would answer the same. The free market and inventive nature of humans grew beyond the limits of railroad. We invented the internal combustion engine and placed them on wheels. This is not a static world. We will find a better route to free and cheap internet via liberty. I don't need to pay hounds of the gov't to threaten lives with swat raids on non-complaint ISPs.

I'm going to be blunt with you. ISP *ARE* monopolies. They purposefully collude with each other to not compete. If you go into a large number of areas there's only one choice for an ISP. There is no free market for ISPs in the US. About the only places where you will see ISPs competing are in large Tech hub cities (like San Fran, Seattle, Washington DC) and in other locations, it's basically one or two (New York City is owned by Time Warner Cable or whatever it's called now).

Likewise, ISPs *ARE* a utility much like electric, water, gas for homes, and the like. ISPs need to be regulated as such (which is what Title 2 is all about). Likewise, Net Neutrality has been in effect in some form since 2005. Can you tell me how bad internet service has been from 2005 up to 2015 when the FCC voted on Title 2 in the US? Was pretty good over that decade as far as I saw.

And before you go saying that the ISPs will do the right thing, no they won't. They have been given money by Congress since the late 90s to improve their networks from copper to fiber, do you know what they did with all that money? They pocketed it. They didn't improve their networks.

You simply don't know what you are talking about on this.