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[ale] Republicans’ “Internet Freedom Act” would wipe out net neutrality | Ars Technica
- Subject: [ale] Republicans’ “Internet Freedom Act” would wipe out net neutrality | Ars Technica
- From: DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)
- Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 08:29:33 -0500
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On 03/07/2015 08:08 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> The Republican definition of freedom generally refers only to owners and never
> to users.
>
If there is plenty of competition - perhaps 10 competitors, I don't have an
issue with the network owner being allowed to seek niche spaces in the market.
Some people may want to pay to have proactive blocking? I dunno.
When there are fewer competitors, or an effective monopoly (like we have with
broadband service in the USA), the customers may need protections - mainly after
the company has proven to be anti-customer in the past on numerous occasions.
Competition is clearly not working in those cases.