Net Neutrality 2014

[Ryantology]

The market has done great with the internet, which is the ultimate source of free speech. I'd much rather keep it as is rather than give the government any control.

Looks to me as if the market, in this country at least, has done great primarily in fucking broadband customers without any courtesy lube. Not so much on giving us the world-class internet speeds we're obviously paying for.

It's not even a free market in terms of telecoms. It's a small handful of huge corporations colluding to produce what you see above: huge profits and low-quality service. A bare fact of the 'free market' is that corporations will grow as monopolistic as government allows them to, and that having been done, they will provide the poorest service for the highest price they can get away with. It's happening right here. I don't really see what we gain by giving them even more opportunity to do the latter.