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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I don't care how much the cable industry opposes net neutrality. The internet is no longer an optional form of entertainment. It's an absolutely essential public service in today's society and if the feds have to force the industry to comply at the point of a gun, then so be it!
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Exactly. I sent a comment to the FCC and told them that letting the providers decide who got through fast would kill content creators because it would be legal extortion because the 'regular' speeds would never get any faster because the new income stream would be protected at all costs. I pointed out the push to get broadband and/or WIFI to all and that this would kill that idea because rates would rise to fund 'innovation', but that innovation would cost more so as to line the industry's pockets.
I encouraged them to make broadband internet a public utility so that it could be regulated and to not listen to the service providers' prediction of the danger to them since they couldn't even state what that danger would be, only that it would be terrible.