FCC approves regulation of internet providors

[Mr Khan]

FreeTalkLive said:

Mr Khan said:

FreeTalkLive said:

Hopefully these policies/rules will all be overturned.  It's horrible the the US government is trying to do something like this.  I guess the people in charge of us want everyone to suffer...

Oh yeah, these rules will be rolled back so the telecom companies can move in lockstep with their virtual monopolies to make sure that the only online video you can access on your Comcast connection is Comcast's online video on demand, or other issues very much like it

That's what "liberty" will get us in this case

LOl.,  That hasn't happened yet.  Nor were things moving in that direction.  Interesting theory, though.

Wouldn't be hard. Get Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and TimeWarner all thinking that way, and that would be a clean majority of all broadband in the country in a tiered, restrictive system. Customer mobility is very hard when it comes to broadband, so if your provider moved to a user-hostile system, you'd pretty much have one other option in your area (usually your local cable provider vs your local phone providor), and if *both* of them cotton to the idea of making more money charging users per-Gigabyte, then you can either go back to dial-up, or just roll over and take it

The threat of losing customers is weaker than it needs to be to be an effective tool to keep them in line in this case