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Quote by: Scribbler1 It might sound good from the usual "free market is god" angle but there is that one little element the "free market" MUST have to be fair, and that is a competitor to go to if you don't like the service of one company. Since there is no second Internet you must have some kind of restraint on those who provide the connections. Obscene profits while gouging the consumer is already a fact in the case of the oil conglomerates and you have no argument that THIS monopolistic industry will behave any differently. |
This is the only good counter-argument I'm aware of, but it is a good one. What if the neutrality legislation covered only existing infrastructure, but telecoms were left free to augment it with a new tiered structure? That should make everyone happy.