What if they went the EA route, you guys? Introducing browsing loot boxes! Just purchase this loot box and get access to a bunch of random websites and services! This gives internet users a sense of pride and accomplishment! Yay!!
you let them get a little further everytime. like nazis. punch that Bane Shift into the Firking ground.
keep government out of business. we dont need more corruption. the reason we have ISP monopolies in the first place is exclusive regional deals by corrupt governments. stop giving the government more power over us
We have ISP monopolies because the government considers 1.5 Mbps DSL legitimate competition to 100 Mbps Cable and doesn't punish the ISP for it.
Verizon to FCC: I want to slow down acces to things that didn't pay me and speed it up to things that are sponsored and Bane Shift FCC to verizon: you can't do that verizon to FCC: you don't have the authority to determine that based on the current classification of the internet FCC to verizon: you are right .... *reclassifies internet* problem solved. *some time later* Bane Shift pie: "Hi im the new FCC head person I used to work for Verizon as a lawyer! ... there is ... NO reason.... why the internet was reclasified as this other thing and this harms ... businesses.... we should deregulate it for.... reeeaaasons." other people: "are you sure there is no reason it was ever reclasified?" Bane Shift pie:"..... it is a mystery...." Newsbuff :"well that sounds completely like what how it should have been because I love sponsored content! and having people I don't know and shouldn't trust determine which news and things on the internet I get to see"
you're god damned right i don't want a gov't agency overseeing the internet. i trust gov't way less than i trust corporations. deregulate everything. privatize everything.
newsy, there was an article in some satire machine or another some months ago about a libertarian paradise in which pretty much everything had to have a quarter inserted before it would function. is that your dream world?
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department I love that article and yes, of course: Spoiler
Many Americans are so scared of government that they prefer government can't even create regulations that help competition and the free market function like NN does. Instead, they are content to let corporations squeeze every ounce of profit they can (for example, record profits for corporations, but apparently THEY need MORE tax breaks so that they can create jobs) by being able to collude with other large corporations to the detriment of competition and innovation. Just follow the money. All the large ISPs support repeal of NN. Do you think they are doing this because they believe it'll create more competition against themselves? LMAO. There are actually regulations/deals that are anti-competitive - but Trump/Pai/Republicans aren't going after those, are they? Why not? Because at the end of the day, these guys aren't working for the free market or the consumer, they get paid by the corporations. It's just nuts when so many Americans care more about the "team" or superficial reflection of their ideology than they do about the ACTUAL impacts of policy in the real world.
This is one time I actually mostly agree with you politically. It's why I am a centrist (sorta). I maybe support 50% of the things Trump does. His appointment of Pai was not one of them. Actually, I dislike most of his appointments. I think he assumed that having more business people like himself would be good. It wasn't. Duh. And I REALLY dislike a lot of the Republicans in Congress. Well, I don't like Congress in general. I want it to be cleaned out and have new elections for the positions, with short term limits (I'm fairly extreme, I'd like a 2 year term limit for them). I would like more tax breaks for small businesses, to make it easier for them to compete, but most large ones don't need it. I argued for so long with an Anarcho Capitilist about this, he couldn't understand why getting rid of N.N. was a bad idea.
