[TriLUG] Internet Neutrality

[Bill Trautman via TriLUG]

To pile on....  Many of these providers that 'we' have got their position
in the market by being allowed to create a regulated monopoly.   Having
them now say we don't want regulation is the height of hypocrisy.  There
are many services that would not exist if the existing monopoly based
providers had their way.  Their concern is using that monopoly position to
extract as much cash from you and me as they can.

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Brian via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On 09/08/2017 07:37 PM, Tadd Torborg wrote:
>
>> I’m grateful that we have it here in the big city.
>>
>
> Respectfully, this sounds a bit like the "I've got mine" mentality.  /I/
> don't live in a big city, and fortunately DOCSIS (internet over CATV) is
> available.  My parents live in an area where DOCSIS is not, and likely
> never will be, available, but DSL is feasible.  If it weren't for federal
> regulation, people that live in yet-more-rural areas would still be lacking
> in electricity and telephone service because it isn't profitable to serve
> them.
>
> Aside: I've heard satellite internet mentioned a number of times as a
> competitive technology to terrestrial services.  With round-trip times that
> physically can never be shorter than ~250 ms, it really isn't.  If you
> can't do VoIP over a particular mechanism, it's not a competitor.
>
> > Personally I’m not so worried about [...]
>
> It doesn't matter whether it's concern for popular video streaming or
> access to back issues of 2600 magazine.  The point of net neutrality is to
> ensure that ISPs can't hinder, or boost, access to /anything/ for /anyone/
> for /any reason/.
>
> I’d prefer to look for competition and technology to fix this than to
>> grant power over our data to some agency that we don’t appear to have a
>> say in regulating.
>>
>
> Competition and technology would be the ideal way to fix this, but
> existing regulations and monopolies have choked off both.  "Hey, you have
> this great idea for a land-based way of delivering terabit internet service
> to folks over fish tank air hose?  That's awesome!  Oh, you want to put
> your air hoses on our telephone poles?  Now wait just a minute there,
> bub..."  This is precisely the thing that has interfered with the
> deployment of competing services such as Google Fiber and municipal
> broadband.
>
> -B
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