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Please explain how those of us who have exactly one provider are supposed to do that.
Start one.
If I can, you can.
If you're not willing, stop trying to use politicians to force what you want.
11-10-2014, 09:09 PM
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What I have to say... is evidence based and objectively true.
No evidence. Not objectively true.
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No, they do not.
Yes they do. You can browse their job listings yourself.
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No, they do not.
Both answers are based on objective fact.
The FCC is slow, incompetent, politically partisan, and extremely influenced by lobbyists.
I know that is fact, as well.
They are influenced by lobbyists, I'll give you that. At the moment they're being influenced heavily by lobbyists from Verizon and Comcast who want to drive a stake through net neutrality and kill it once and for all, along with some fake grassroots lobbying from people who are too stupid to know what they're doing. On the other side, they're being lobbied by companies who have an interest in a level playing field and by people who are at least semi-informed.
There is a reason that pretty much every person and company in the country who has a clue is on one side, and giant ISPs and a band of government-hating idiots are on the other.
You fall pretty clearly on one side - the uninformed, anti-government, screeching hysterics with no facts and no argument that is reality-based.
There is no evidence of anything other than the truth of what I say.
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Yes they do. You can browse their job listings yourself.
LOL! Not one of those "engineers" writes regulations. Political ops do that.
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They are influenced by lobbyists, I'll give you that. At the moment they're being influenced heavily by lobbyists from Verizon and Comcast who want to drive a stake through net neutrality and kill it once and for all, along with some fake grassroots lobbying from people who are too stupid to know what they're doing. On the other side, they're being lobbied by companies who have an interest in a level playing field and by people who are at least semi-informed.
Your argument is that if someone doesn't like one specific form of something, it must be good. Amazing.
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You fall pretty clearly on one side - the uninformed, anti-government, screeching hysterics with no facts and no argument that is reality-based.
I actually deal with this kind of complaint regularly. Where a customer has a remote office connected somewhere else in the world/state/country and while they have a 20Mbit connection, they can't get more than 4mbit across. Why? Because the other office/site/whatever has a connection to someone whose peering sucks.
Irrelevant, that's the customers issue. If the customer is paying for crap connection and can't view my 6Mbps video it's their issue. If they expect a 6Mbps video and my server can't provide that it's my problem.
When they can view a 6Mbps video on one site and not on my site because the ISP is throttling traffic to my site now we have a problem.
Irrelevant, that's the customers issue. If the customer is paying for crap connection and can't view my 6Mbps video it's their issue. If they expect a 6Mbps video and my server can't provide that it's my problem.
When they can view a 6Mbps video on one site and not on my site because the ISP is throttling traffic to my site now we have a problem.
Do you really expect the politicians and lawyers and lobbyists to respect reality?
How do you stop the monopolies? DON'T BUY FROM THEM OR USE THEIR SERVICES!
That's like saying don't buy water or electric. There is some services that are essential and the internet is one of them.
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