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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2482840, member: 1414"] Oh, I'm an idiot now. Fortunately your opinion on that is meaningless since you are obviously an idiot and a lemming incapable of independent thought. The talking points about Net Neutrality being thrown around aren't even based on a realistic view of how the internet works. [URL='https://www.wired.com/2014/06/net_neutrality_missing/']Wired did a nice write up on this[/URL]. [INDENT]"The net neutrality debate is based on a mental model of the internet that hasn’t been accurate for more than a decade. We tend to think of the internet as a massive public network that everyone connects to in exactly the same way. We envision data traveling from Google and Yahoo and Uber and every other online company into a massive internet backbone, before moving to a vast array of ISPs that then shuttle it into our homes. That could be a neutral network, but it’s not today’s internet. It couldn’t be. Too much of the traffic is now coming from just a handful of companies." [/INDENT] It is imperative that we increase competition among ISPs. I absolutely agree with that. Competition will drive innovation, decrease prices and ensure that the type of inappropriate throttling people worry about doesn't occur. Much of the problem on the competition side is because local cities and towns negotiated exclusive deals. That needs to end, and the feds should bar that practice. Very fast wireless is coming as well, and that will change the model for ISPs. The problem with Net Neutrality, and treating ISPs as a utility, is that the cost of being a highly regulated utility is the end of competition, and usually the end of innovation. I pay over $200, including land line. But three HD boxes don't help. Yet I recall in the 1980's it was easy to have just a phone bill be over $200, because we all paid for long distance. So what I now get for that $200 is a lot more than it was then. [/QUOTE]

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