FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sets course to dismantle net neutrality rules

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sethnintendo said:

FragilE^ said:
(Wiki) "Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication."

Could someone tell me what a worst case scenario could look like?
In my head I just thought, if all the providers go to shit, don't you think others would pop up and compete with them, eventually giving the customer decent deals regardless? Am I just being naive? :o

Well the cable companies have a monopolies on the USA market divided up among the cities.  Sure there are smaller cable providers here and there but it is usually a choice between one major cable company and AT&T for internet.  I view this a push just so they can try and milk some money from big streamers like Netflix and Hulu because they have been losing customers over the past few years.  This would be also a good way to knock down Sling TV which seems to just be gathering steam.  They can't win the battle of cord cutters and people sick of their shit TV plans so they have to win it any other means possible.

Ah, right, the monopolies. Despite Sweden loving monopolies so much, we still have a pretty decent selection to pick from when it comes to internet. I didn't consider this. If this all goes through, they'd probably clamp down even harder on their monopolies then, right?

 

You're supposed to offer a better service to bring back your customers, not just kill the competition :C