man-man Posted:

Why would I hope for that? Because then we might finally see something get done about it. So long as they take the quiet creeping route of slowly eroding at rights, freedoms and laws, they get away with it because it mostly gets shrugged off as “just something those net-tards are getting jumped up about”. Here’s hoping they take a step too far, anger the mbumes, and can be pushed back to where they ought to be.

I am confused because you sound like someone who supports net neutrality, but this hope of yours seems to completely contradict that stance. You seem to be describing a situation in which customers of a certain ISP (let’s say Comcast for argument’s sake) exercise their rights as consumers to choose a competing company for service. That’s pure capitalism, the definition of a free market economy, and the antithesis of a governmental authority determining what services a corporation can offer its customers. Log in to see images!

It’s not that I’m against net neutrality, I’m just disgusted by the idea that the FCC has the authority to regulate bandwidth of any sort. They don’t. Congress does because it is able to regulate commerce, electronic or otherwise. Congress can impose whatever regulations they see fit upon Comcast or any other ISP; the electorate put them in power to make those decisions. The FCC is just a bureaucracy, outside of the sphere of public influence, and they don’t shouldn’t have the authority to make these decisions.

Log in to see images! grinsen edited this message on 04/06/2010 7:14PM