How Trump Will Turn America's Open Internet Into an Ugly Version of China's

[steve2470]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-trump-will-turn-americas-open-internet-into-an-ugly-version-of-chinas

Do you like Pearl Jam? Without net neutrality rules, AT&T censored their livestream after Eddie Vedder criticized then-president George W. Bush. AT&T also blocked the usage of Apple’s video chat service, FaceTime, in their network, so that customers would have to pay for more expensive data plans. Verizon blocked messages sent by abortion rights group NARAL, saying that their content was too controversial.

The longer this NN fight goes on, the more heinous stuff I learn. I wasn't aware of the NARAL blocking or the Vedder censoring.

[msongs]

1. the free market says new providers will arise to provide what at&t etc take away. like maybe

ISPs run by cities/counties might happen

[-je]

2. Not Likely

"… incumbent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) don’t like this idea, and have been lobbying at the state level for years to limit municipal broadband. Telecom lobbyists spent over $90 Million last year alone[3], cloaking ISP interests in complex laws with dramatic titles like “An act to protect jobs and investment by regulating local government competition with private business.”


[link:https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadblocks-by-state/|


The current FCC and lobbyists making the Internet comcastic!


[link:https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B09&year=2016|


There is no free market in the HSD world without antitrust actions like the Ma Bell and Micro$oft cases.

[steve2470]

3. good post

Businessmen (and women) always sing the praises about the free market, except when it comes to their business. The big ISP's do not want broadband at the local level, no way. Only if they provide it, in a monopolistic fashion.

[WinkyDink]

6. Ha.

[-je]

4. thanks

The one thing that really needs public support, and could break the oligopolies is Broadband over Power Lines (BPD). Electricity public utilities have infrastructure everywhere in America.

But again the big corporations stifled that concept until they could figure out how to profit from it.

[progree]

5. The central European view of Net Neutrality

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[area51]

7. Portugal

doesn't have net neutrality.

[-je]

8. "AT&T and Comcast lawsuit has nullified a citys broadband competition law"

So much for an open and free market.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/att-and-comcast-win-lawsuit-they-filed-to-stall-google-fiber-in-nashville/