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fatslob-:O on 26 November 2017
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Pemalite said:

Companies often exhibit losses by deferring expenditure/costs to other quarters... It's mostly done for the tax benefits and to make themselves look good at specific times when they intend to attract investors. - Microsoft has done this multiple times before, for example when they wrote down the Nokia acquisition and claimed a loss, they still raked in the billions in profits that and every other quarter though.

It's a scam... Just like lootboxes/microtransactions. - You are a consumer, why are you even defending this?
The internet has worked fine for decades... It's not broken, no need to fix it. - Are you supporting this because the Left/Obama is against it? Honest question.

Verizon, AT&T are monolithic companies, they are not doing it tough, they rake in the cash.

LOL, are you really going to ask about partisanship when I see this as a technical discussion ? 

And more importantly when did I ever claim to have supported the end of net neutrality or much less defend it ? 

We're all consumers but most of us also produces goods and services but how would you feel if you were a content creator and you decided to instead pirate from other content creators because you didn't like their monetization strategy yet in return they do the same to you when they don't like your monetization strategy ? 

Ending net neutrality is not at all like lootboxes either once we consider that there are no contracts to be with the latter or legal guarantees ... 

Pemalite said:

Blatantly false.
You should take a look at other telecommunications companies in other markets across the planet and see what they are doing.

There's almost no other country with a situation as comparable to the US's so unless you can show otherwise it's already doubtful that your idea of adding more value to a service will work ... (in fact it's probably worse for driving revenue unless more value is locked behind the premium options but ending net neutrality will already do this) 

It really grinds my gears how people will take examples of solutions from other nations such as healthcare and apply it to the US since it shows how much more naive they can get ...