“They are all things I can agree to with my private company service provider.”
Wow, you have equal bargaining power with Verizon? Impressive.
I guess it comes down to whom you trust more - the FCC and the rest of the federal government bureaucracies or the private marketplace.
>> Wow, you have equal bargaining power with Verizon? Impressive.
Just unplug Shermy and make your grievances with the ‘evil’ corporations go away.
You can then post your messages using the Postal Service for just a mere 44 cents each.
Yes. I tell them what I want, and what I want to pay. They decide what they want to provide, and how much they want me to pay.
And if we can agree, we make a deal. If not, we don’t.
It’s not like when government gets involved and orders me to buy something I don’t like, or taxes me to give my money to other people who do what they want. Verizon can’t take a dime from me without my consent.
So yes, I would rather have Verizon deciding things, than the government.
And if Verizon can’t please a significant number of customers, somebody, maybe even me, can create my own company and compete for those customers.
Except not with the net neutrality rules, which will mostly impose impossible burdens for a start-up, while the big companies with the big bucks can afford to pay the regulatory fees.
Regulations are the number one way corporate america destroys competition — they may pretend not to like regulations, but government regulations make it impossible for newcomers to break into a business.