| monocle_layton said: You ignore his entire post and somehow state it works against him? Did you not see the fact that the majority of ISP's control a large amount of the regions in the US?
Instead of just stating it's all because of the govenment, why don't you actually explain? Using doomsday words doesn't strengthen your opinion in any manner. |
The reason that the selection of ISPs for many (most?) Americans is ~2 is because government grants those ISPs territorial monopolys. In most of the USA, there is one "telephone" company and one "cable TV" company. These are the only companies that are allowed to provide wired internet service. In some cases, there is only one of those companies that is allowed to provide it. They literally are given government protection from competition. This generally a local gang government issue.
Another big one is bandwidth sales for wireless data. In this case, government decides what frequencies can be used for what purpose, then they sell the spectrum in closed auctions that nobody except the giant telecom companies can get into. Even among those companies, they will disallow some of them from owning certain frequencies in certain areas. This is generally a federal gang government thing.
At the federal level, nearly all of the top brass in the FCC are former telecom execs, who go back to telecom after a few years in government. In the FTC, it is big business guys of all sorts, including telecom. At both the local and federal level (and state too), the politicians that appoint the regulators are bought and paid for by big telecom, and other big businesses. These are the people that are supposed to make laws that protect us from big business. These are the people that are responsible for enforcing Net Neutrality, and other regulatory schemes. These are the people that cause all of the problems mentioned in the post I replied to.
Why anyone would want big telecom guys, and others (more or less) owned by them, to regulate big telecom in beyond my ability to comprehend.
