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No, I don't realize that. People can go back to secretarial pools and file cabinets. The world worked just fine without "the internet".
On scale of how important this is in the scheme of things I'd give it a "1". Ask the Amish how important this is.
From 95 until 2015... 20 years there was no issues.
Why should I subsidize those that use more internet than I?
As with anything free market, if I choose to have the latest and greatest fastest internet or gadget, I will buy it. It is always the most expensive when it first hits the market. Same should be for faster and faster internet.
For those that complain, "I only have one choice in internet service" Net Neutrality was not helping you. It locked you in. I see business opportunity.
Now, there is opportunity for competition. Competition lowers your cost. NN kept that guy the only game in town from now on.
It amazes me that those who self identify as liberal democrats remain in such a trance, year after year, decade after decade, seemingly unaware of the glaring, mind boggling failures that consistently result from their great ideas. Totally amazed.
When has government control of anything EVER produced better and more affordable? The answer is NEVER. In fact, every such piece of legislation/regulation uses this slick bait and switch language like the “Affordable Care Act”, yet produces the exact opposite. Of course, since you remain in a trance ... you probably didn’t notice how skyrocketing healthcare costs under the Affordable Car Act” made it less affordable?
The internet doesn’t need this type of “help”. Government is corrupt, and government regulations are rarely beneficial to the common folks. It’s just consolidated power and control which will then be used to benefit those who make the largest campaign donations.
No adult possessing two brain cells, who can walk and chew gum at the same time, should need to be told this.
Governments can and are often time corrupt. As are corporations. You condemn the support of one but not the other?
The other thing that protects consumers is just switching to a different ISP...
Many people do not have that choice. Furthermore being able to buy a cable box from a third party is certainly something everyone would love to do, how many cable companies in your area offer you that option? None of them do, because they can. The same type of thing is going to occur without NN, because they can.
These are content providers and how they run their business has nothing to do with NN. Clearly telling them or some Conservative site on the other end of the spectrum how or what they may publish would be censorship. I these companies choose to censor the content they are providing that is and should always be up to them.
NN insures that if you do not like the policies of Facebook for example you can simply choose to use some other service without any interference from the ISP.
Net neutrality should very much be a political issue when the vote to repeal it fell along party lines.
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