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To: BBell

Look at it this way. We didn’t have it before Obama and we were doing fine. Just the government sticking its nose in another business for no reason.


14 posted on 04/23/2018 7:56:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau
Look at it this way. We didn’t have it before Obama and we were doing fine. Just the government sticking its nose in another business for no reason.

The biggest argument against NN (Net Neutrality) is really quite simple:

If you look at all the innovation related to the Internet that happened before NN was implemented under the Obama Administration it's really quite astounding. The success of Amazon & Netflix happened without NN being in place. "The Cloud" is another. Amazon Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and others were all on their way to becoming what they are today. The list of examples against NN is so lengthy I don't think I could type it all.

The argument for net neutrality is largely based on the internet being "free" or cost constrained and concerns that political speech would be censored ala Facebook, Google, Twitter and other "social media" platforms. Then of course there's the lousy service from giant internet service providers like Comcast for example who really does charge high prices for crappy service.

As a Comcast customer myself, I certainly wish I had other options than their sh*tty service however that's finally coming with the implementation of 5G service which will rival and beat cable based internet services for speed and fludity of the service across whatever device I choose to use, where ever I choose to use it. Finally, I don't think 5G would be coming as fast as it is if NN were in place. Companies were really hampered from a revenue and capital expenditures to drive innovation. There were also some pretty heavy regulatory burdens that have finally been lifted thanks to PDJT which is helping the deployment of 5G across the country.

Personally I was for NN in the beginning based largely on my hatred for Comcast and their really sh*tty service and no other option. As I learned more and more, I changed my mind largely because I wanted more competition which would ultimately drive companies like Comcast to improve or make them fail in favor of a better technology.

My hunch? Comcast will go the way of Sears. There is no such thing as "Too Big To Fail" in the Technology world.

43 posted on 04/24/2018 4:48:01 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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