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While I am all for a free market,

Dasdi96·12/14/2017, 8:39:44 PM·3 votes·290 views

I think it was a bad idea to repeal NN because many places in the US don’t have many different choices for ISP and even some places have an ISP with a regional monopoly, meaning it isn’t a free market. The internet is pretty much a necessity nowadays, and the ISP knows this, so the ISP will start doing some shady shit knowing people have no choice. Some people might think “the service will be cheaper since I can remove any packages I don’t want.” In reality that’s not going to happen. In a few months, we can expect big ISP to charge the price they are currently charging for the base service which is going to be slower than advertised speed, along with some websites/services completely blocked. In order to unlock these sites or speed up your service, the ISP will charge you more. Hell, some ISP might even make a new shitty streaming service and completely block access to twitch.tv or charge exorbitant fees to use it. If a person wants to play league, the ISP might throttle the connection unless you buy a “gaming package” for extra monthly fee. They might even put data caps on certain websites and charge you more if you want to continue using it.

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ADC Bard12/14/2017, 10:24:15 PM3 votes

The internet is gonna be cheaper because you can remove packages you don't want

Bard

Player Vehicle12/14/2017, 10:29:49 PM2 votes

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I think it was a bad idea to repeal NN because many places in the US don’t have many different choices for ISP and even some places have an ISP with a regional monopoly, meaning it isn’t a free market. The internet is pretty much a necessity nowadays, and the ISP knows this, so the ISP );

You always have a choice it's why they have commercials zzzzz. You're like the guys who complain about lootboxes and then buy them anyway because #nochoice ffs.

Buy a mobile hospot and survive this horrible december apocalypse with its portugese internet packages or whatever scenario has been drilled into your brain.

IllusoryLumines12/14/2017, 10:32:54 PM2 votes

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I think it was a bad idea to repeal NN because many places in the US don’t have many different choices for ISP and even some places have an ISP with a regional monopoly, meaning it isn’t a free market. The internet is pretty much a necessity nowadays, and the ISP knows this, so the ISP will start doing some shady shit knowing people have no choice. Some people might think “the service will be cheaper since I can remove any packages I don’t want.” In reality that’s not going to happen. In a few months, we can expect big ISP to charge the price they are currently charging for the base service which is going to be slower than advertised speed, along with some websites/services completely blocked. In order to unlock these sites or speed up your service, the ISP will charge you more. Hell, some ISP might even make a new shitty streaming service and completely block access to twitch.tv or charge exorbitant fees to use it. If a person wants to play league, the ISP might throttle the connection unless you buy a “gaming package” for extra monthly fee. They might even put data caps on certain websites and charge you more if you want to continue using it.

They can't do that for the same reason they can't just set the internet speed of EVERYTHING to 56kb/s for 200 dollars, there's still a bare minimum of competition and NN isn't a price fixer. Also even if they did so now you wouldn't notice on google or etc but you would on netflix.

Also, it would be completely suicidal for any ISP to do that, any sort of increased entry costs will immediately go out the door and anything like Sprint or T-Mobile will dominate even with restrictions.

Vapor Wave Vibes12/14/2017, 8:44:07 PM1 votes

Willing to take the risk if my lol ping goes down. Otherwise at least everyone is lagging

Social Justice 112/14/2017, 10:21:39 PM1 votes

Yeah. It's not a free market when 1-2 companies run the entire thing. It's the same idea as to why Anarcho-Capitalism is an oxymoron