No, it's entitlement typical of this generation, we're only seeing it now because we have an administration that isn't willing to bow to an inexperienced, unreasonable, and gullible public.
If any of you understood the first thing about what government control entails, or how the free market works, you wouldn't have a problem.
Or maybe you do understand but are too coddled to want to risk change.
You're talking about how we can always just use a public library for internet access if we don't like the nightmare that Comcast is about to unleash on your people in the name of your mighty free market, but you try running a business without internet. You try innovating in a marketplace skewed so openly in favour of the incumbent giants. I find it hard to believe that you really support this on principle, and much easier to believe that your partisan politics has you agreeing with anything the libtards don't. All hail Trump!
You're allowed to call your own idols on stupid decisions, you know. 50 years ago, voters on both sides of the aisle knew that.
I do not idolize anyone's politics.
I will, in general, support anything that improves market freedom, individual liberty and responsibility, and curtails federal overreach.
Repealing Net Neutrality satisfies all three.
Pray not for easier lives, but to be stronger men.
Use alternative providers, learn how to use a pen again. These companies built the internet as we know it. It is their right to run their business and change their product as they see fit. You don't like it? Then either do better or pay someone who will.
Alright, they did not create the internet as it is today. All they do is provide connection to it. The internet is basically just computers connected to computers, so in reality the internet providers are the least involved part of the internet.
That's not what I said? I just said that they are not the creators of the modern internet and don't really have anything to do with it besides distributing data. Nice strawman though.
Our society is becoming dependent on the internet to do basic things. Paying bills, school work, and information necessary for our day-to-day lives. To start charging higher prices or slowing down services is a disservice to a healthy society.
Do tell me how are we supposed to do that when they are the only ones provuded tge service necessary for us? The is only 1 internet provider allowed at our apartment complex, a common occurance. Also, depending on where you live, only specific providers service your area. It was already a tight market, now its just more of a strangle hold.
For now maybe. Now that the ISPs are vulnerable to antitrust and anti-monopoly laws again, it's only a matter of time before they wise up or somebody else edges them out.
As someone who didn't have consistent internet access until 2012, I'm not going to be sympathetic to someone who can't rough it, so to speak.
Good example of limited providers for internet in certain areas. I have dish network they are it! Freaking satellite internet that drops out at the pass of a cloud is my only internet besides my cell phone which I cannot (legally anyway) tether to my computer! So I'm barreled and screwed with a hot poker when it comes to anything internet!
People have grown dependent on cars too. And we're a little bit dependent on clothing and shampoo.... Dare I say, i've even grown to become somewhat dependent on food. I guess the ever trustworth government should have its hand in those pots too?
It is a modern right, it would be like if they banned libraries in the 80s and said they were a privilege, not a right. The internet is the modern library.
Yeah, no.
Libraries are built and funded by government money, literally designed for any member of the public to use.
The internet was an investment that's infrastructure and accessibility was improved upon by private businesses for the express purpose of charging people for the privilege of using it.
Just because a lot of people use it doesn't make it a right.
People rely on cars too, yet absolutely nobody is entitled to them.
The problem isn't being charged, its being charged twice or even three times for the same serive I'm already paying for. Ex. I'm currently paying $75 a month for all access internet. Now, they can start "bundling" and restricting speeds, so, if I want streaming spped I will need to pay my basic $75, plus, say $20 for higher tier speed, plus $5 for the bundle that includes Netflix and Hulu, only 1 of which I use and in top of the $11 a month I already pay for that service. No is saying we should have to pay. We are saying we shouldn't have to pay multiple timmes. And more importantly, the providers shouldn't get to restrict was sites and information we have access to. If that doesn't set of alarm bells fir you obviously you aren't paying attention.
People have been taking a stand, but it doesn't matter because what they pulled should be illegal. The companies literally paid for this. They paid the people appointed to office, just like they paid for the people who appointed them to be elected. This country is no longer run "By the people, for the people" it is run by the rich to be richer.
Find the money trail. If the people appointed were paid off, then send the evidence to the courts, FBI, Secret Service, IRS, and every other organization dedicated to handling that kind of thing.
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BTW, taking a stand doesn't mean writing strongly worded letters and resorting to cyber-terrorism. It means voting, investigating, and refusing to pay companies that don't take care of their customers.
Celticrose, are you aware of the concept that price is set by supply and demand?
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The problem here is'nt about price, it's about entitlement. You feel that you're entitled to have your internet at its current price. But it's not your internet any more than any of the above examples. You just need to accept that!
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In reality, theres no need to worry. Your internet value will continue to go up and up just like it always has.
This is a whole new level of entitlement.
Or maybe you do understand but are too coddled to want to risk change.
You're allowed to call your own idols on stupid decisions, you know. 50 years ago, voters on both sides of the aisle knew that.
I will, in general, support anything that improves market freedom, individual liberty and responsibility, and curtails federal overreach.
Repealing Net Neutrality satisfies all three.
Pray not for easier lives, but to be stronger men.
Use alternative providers, learn how to use a pen again. These companies built the internet as we know it. It is their right to run their business and change their product as they see fit. You don't like it? Then either do better or pay someone who will.
Especially when you factor in public libraries and internet cafes.
Or suck it up and hit the library every so often.
As someone who didn't have consistent internet access until 2012, I'm not going to be sympathetic to someone who can't rough it, so to speak.
Libraries are built and funded by government money, literally designed for any member of the public to use.
The internet was an investment that's infrastructure and accessibility was improved upon by private businesses for the express purpose of charging people for the privilege of using it.
Just because a lot of people use it doesn't make it a right.
People rely on cars too, yet absolutely nobody is entitled to them.
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BTW, taking a stand doesn't mean writing strongly worded letters and resorting to cyber-terrorism. It means voting, investigating, and refusing to pay companies that don't take care of their customers.
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The problem here is'nt about price, it's about entitlement. You feel that you're entitled to have your internet at its current price. But it's not your internet any more than any of the above examples. You just need to accept that!
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In reality, theres no need to worry. Your internet value will continue to go up and up just like it always has.