It’s utterly confusing how these articles supporting government control of the internet keep getting written.
Based on the evidence, every single time they’ve intervened they undermine and ruin the internet’s functionality. DMCA, SOPA, PIPA, cookie notifications, GDPR, right to be forgotten, article 13.
For all the hypothetical damage companies could do, that’s never happened since the internet was created, it’s dwarfed the actual, very large amount of damage governments have done the very few times they’ve actually intervened.
You will never control the regulators that write laws about the internet. They will always, and have always used it as a means to control information. I urge you to change your mind on government intervention on the internet.
Are we done deluding ourselves in to thinking a government agency will protect the internet or roughly how long do we need to keep wasting our time?/div>
I've wrote multiple times about how Net Neutrality efforts would ultimately be in vain due to voter overload and regulatory capture.
Having a top-down organization creating all the rules **will** **not** **work**.
All this effort pushing FCC net neutrality was wasted when we should have been focusing on state and municipal level support for eliminating monopolies. Had we been doing this from the start we'd be a lot farther along now but this FCC failed detour has cost us a considerable amount of time./div>
It seems all the effort spent giving one organization power to control communication, which predictively succame to regulatory capture, could have been spent making sure no one has control over communication, like state-advocacy to dismantle state and municipal barriers to providing communications services./div>
Given the number of political things people need to focus on now, how can we expect anyone except a handful of people to understand nuanced legislation like this?
Considering who's in charge of the FCC now, giving the government control over any part of the internet has been, and continues to be a huge mistake.
Whatever damage companies can do to the internet, the government can do worse./div>
The US congress also has no authority to make limit state laws for things not written in to the constitution so even if it was passed, it would be challenged and likely struck down.
Again, focusing on broadband laws at the state level will be a much better use of time because they're easier to pass and won't be struck down./div>
Billions of products in free markets are delivered and improved each day since there's a profit incentive for being better than your competitors.
This central planning debacle is failing even the most rudimentary promise not even a year from its inception.
Again, focusing at the state level at removing monopolistic laws (a problem created by government) will open up the industry to free market benefits./div>
Or
Why, through the last 3 years of trumpeting the FCC, did you think the government would preserve internet freedom vs. co-opt it?
They’re not looking out for individual freedom of speech, and historically they never have been.
/div>No more federal
Confusing
It’s utterly confusing how these articles supporting government control of the internet keep getting written.
Based on the evidence, every single time they’ve intervened they undermine and ruin the internet’s functionality. DMCA, SOPA, PIPA, cookie notifications, GDPR, right to be forgotten, article 13.
For all the hypothetical damage companies could do, that’s never happened since the internet was created, it’s dwarfed the actual, very large amount of damage governments have done the very few times they’ve actually intervened.
You will never control the regulators that write laws about the internet. They will always, and have always used it as a means to control information. I urge you to change your mind on government intervention on the internet.
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Customer service
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Improvement incentives
How ever little control we feel we have over ISPs, we have even less control over the FCC.
Government net neutrality is utter foolishness./div>
Where to from here?
Unconstitutional
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It's be nice if people didn't have goldfish political memories./div>
Doing nothing is easy
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Products get phased out everywhere, all the time./div>
Very predictable
Having a top-down organization creating all the rules **will** **not** **work**.
All this effort pushing FCC net neutrality was wasted when we should have been focusing on state and municipal level support for eliminating monopolies. Had we been doing this from the start we'd be a lot farther along now but this FCC failed detour has cost us a considerable amount of time./div>
Regulatory capture always happens
Voter exhaustion
Considering who's in charge of the FCC now, giving the government control over any part of the internet has been, and continues to be a huge mistake.
Whatever damage companies can do to the internet, the government can do worse./div>
So, taxes?
Why would I want the FCC to have more control?/div>
Wambulance?
Put your big boy pants on Karl, the world doesn't center around your every whim./div>
Lack of authority
Again, focusing on broadband laws at the state level will be a much better use of time because they're easier to pass and won't be struck down./div>
Trust in central planning is always a letdown.
This central planning debacle is failing even the most rudimentary promise not even a year from its inception.
Again, focusing at the state level at removing monopolistic laws (a problem created by government) will open up the industry to free market benefits./div>
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