| fatslob-:O said: 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 ... |
Incorrect. It is those who refuse to look at other examples that fundamentally work that are literally (by it's very definition...) naive.
If other countries are doing things better than the USA... Then they are certainly relevant points that can and should be brought up.
| fatslob-:O said: LOL, are you really going to ask about partisanship when I see this as a technical discussion ? |
It was a simple question. I am not an American, so your political alignment has no direct bearing upon me.
You could be dating Trump or the Queen of England and I wouldn't care, I was just inquiring to see if there was another motive that justifies your position.
| fatslob-:O said: And more importantly when did I ever claim to have supported the end of net neutrality or much less defend it ? |
The rhetoric you have consistently used has pretty much spelled it out. - However, if that assumption is indeed incorrect then I apologize.
| fatslob-:O said: 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 ... |
I have pirated games before because I disliked a games monetization strategy. - I am not above paying for it either once they overturn their shenanigans, although such an occurrence has been rare and I generally do not support piracy.
However... The difference between net neutrality is that, you don't know what services will be negatively affected until... You know. It comes time to use those services.
Internet provider has a tiff with Youtube and yet there is no Youtube addon package? Stiff shit. Go without or deal with the excessive buffering.
New company just started up that offers a VPN service? Stiff shit, go without or go with a company which your internet provider demands.
It's like with the Netflix shenanigans when bandwidth was being throttled to Netflix, they essentially blackmailed Netflix to pay more, that's not a good thing for consumers... As that erodes on Netflix's profit margins, meaning that they will likely reduce investment in new content or raise their fee's. - You see the flow-on effect right?
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