“I live in rural Oregon and I have over a half dozen choices. We just dumped CenturyLink for a smaller hungrier locally owned provider.”
If 5 decide to not carry Free Republic how many choices do you have?
Do you really think ISP’s plan to filter for content and why? Why would they bother and how will they monetize it.
Filter will require effort, as in somebody designing and programming the filters and equipment to run it on. It will cost them money... now tell me how they will make money off of that.
Because I can assure you, that somebody will immediately go into business offering unfettered access.
Once you let the gov’t get their regulatory hooks into it, they will find a never ending stream of “issues” to micromanage. All of them will involve fees and licenses the ISP’s will then pass on to us.