It’s utterly confusing how these articles supporting government control of the internet keep getting written.
Based on the evidence, every single time they’ve intervened they undermine and ruin the internet’s functionality. DMCA, SOPA, PIPA, cookie notifications, GDPR, right to be forgotten, article 13.
For all the hypothetical damage companies could do, that’s never happened since the internet was created, it’s dwarfed the actual, very large amount of damage governments have done the very few times they’ve actually intervened.
You will never control the regulators that write laws about the internet. They will always, and have always used it as a means to control information. I urge you to change your mind on government intervention on the internet.
I've wrote multiple times about how Net Neutrality efforts would ultimately be in vain due to voter overload and regulatory capture.
Having a top-down organization creating all the rules **will** **not** **work**.
All this effort pushing FCC net neutrality was wasted when we should have been focusing on state and municipal level support for eliminating monopolies. Had we been doing this from the start we'd be a lot farther along now but this FCC failed detour has cost us a considerable amount of time.
It seems all the effort spent giving one organization power to control communication, which predictively succame to regulatory capture, could have been spent making sure no one has control over communication, like state-advocacy to dismantle state and municipal barriers to providing communications services.
Given the number of political things people need to focus on now, how can we expect anyone except a handful of people to understand nuanced legislation like this?
Considering who's in charge of the FCC now, giving the government control over any part of the internet has been, and continues to be a huge mistake.
Whatever damage companies can do to the internet, the government can do worse.
The US congress also has no authority to make limit state laws for things not written in to the constitution so even if it was passed, it would be challenged and likely struck down.
Again, focusing on broadband laws at the state level will be a much better use of time because they're easier to pass and won't be struck down.
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Why, through the last 3 years of trumpeting the FCC, did you think the government would preserve internet freedom vs. co-opt it?
They’re not looking out for individual freedom of speech, and historically they never have been.
No more federal
Confusing
It’s utterly confusing how these articles supporting government control of the internet keep getting written.
Based on the evidence, every single time they’ve intervened they undermine and ruin the internet’s functionality. DMCA, SOPA, PIPA, cookie notifications, GDPR, right to be forgotten, article 13.
For all the hypothetical damage companies could do, that’s never happened since the internet was created, it’s dwarfed the actual, very large amount of damage governments have done the very few times they’ve actually intervened.
You will never control the regulators that write laws about the internet. They will always, and have always used it as a means to control information. I urge you to change your mind on government intervention on the internet.
I'll stick with free markets where I get 85% of what I want with 0 effort instead of running myself ragged trying to get the government to do it.
Customer service
Telecoms: still better customer service than the FCC.
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This seems like a datapoint under "why the FCC wouldn't be able to manage an open internet"
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From my perspective: complaining about trolls really shows how little experience you have with the internet.
Improvement incentives
How ever bad we think customer service is from ISPs, government customer service is far worse.
How ever little control we feel we have over ISPs, we have even less control over the FCC.
Government net neutrality is utter foolishness.
Where to from here?
Are we done deluding ourselves in to thinking a government agency will protect the internet or roughly how long do we need to keep wasting our time?
Unconstitutional
It's illegal for the federal government to regulate elections, they've been given no authority to do so.
Remember how people said the FCC would succumb to regulatory capture? This is regulatory capture.
It's be nice if people didn't have goldfish political memories.
Doing nothing is easy
It's easy to not enforce a law. For instance the constitution says the FCC can't exist but here we are.
From what I've seen Verizon has done a ton to allow grandfathered plans, years after no longer offering them.
Products get phased out everywhere, all the time.
Very predictable
I've wrote multiple times about how Net Neutrality efforts would ultimately be in vain due to voter overload and regulatory capture.
Having a top-down organization creating all the rules **will** **not** **work**.
All this effort pushing FCC net neutrality was wasted when we should have been focusing on state and municipal level support for eliminating monopolies. Had we been doing this from the start we'd be a lot farther along now but this FCC failed detour has cost us a considerable amount of time.
Regulatory capture always happens
It seems all the effort spent giving one organization power to control communication, which predictively succame to regulatory capture, could have been spent making sure no one has control over communication, like state-advocacy to dismantle state and municipal barriers to providing communications services.
Voter exhaustion
Given the number of political things people need to focus on now, how can we expect anyone except a handful of people to understand nuanced legislation like this?
Considering who's in charge of the FCC now, giving the government control over any part of the internet has been, and continues to be a huge mistake.
Whatever damage companies can do to the internet, the government can do worse.
So, taxes?
That's funny, this happens to me all the time it's called taxes.
Why would I want the FCC to have more control?
Wambulance?
It's super easy for me to not pay for something I don't think is worth the price.
Put your big boy pants on Karl, the world doesn't center around your every whim.
Lack of authority
The US congress also has no authority to make limit state laws for things not written in to the constitution so even if it was passed, it would be challenged and likely struck down.
Again, focusing on broadband laws at the state level will be a much better use of time because they're easier to pass and won't be struck down.
Trust in central planning is always a letdown.
Billions of products in free markets are delivered and improved each day since there's a profit incentive for being better than your competitors.
This central planning debacle is failing even the most rudimentary promise not even a year from its inception.
Again, focusing at the state level at removing monopolistic laws (a problem created by government) will open up the industry to free market benefits.