I see the problem as lack of choice. One article I read said 51% of America only has 1 ISP to "choose" from, while only 37% have a choice of 2 ISP's. If there was competition, like say Google Fiber moves in and provides double speed for half price with no BS, wait and see how fast the existing ISP's improve their service.
Lol thats a good one
It is called a regulatory body. See, the citizens get together to create these "rules" that function with the force of law. This is accomplished by having a central governing body that is accountable to it's voters.
THE problem is the dimwits that vilify any and all government regulation and scream: We need the country to be run by corporations because the self regulating market economy is the only way to be fair to the corporations!
Regardless of any evidence that corporations prioritize their best interests over the interests of their customers, the cultists continue to miss the point.
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So is it going to be run by Congress critters that are already bought by ISPs?
Or will it be appointments by the president like it is now who have zero accountability?
Or...we now have elections for who rules the isp banhammer?
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LOL I love how they've got pornhub right next to okcupid.
The randomly sprinkled porn sites in the mix really make me chuckle.
Also, MFW it's Jul 12 and you visit Amazon and there's no trace of a "protest".
If there are general elections, I'll run!
My rules are this: No caps, no throttling, clearly advertise your price, clearly display PROMISED ingress and egress, and no lobbying to prevent startup ISPs from deploying in the murica. The penalties for breaking such laws will be a day in the stockades for the CEO, per instance.
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This is horrifying.
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Your congress is bought by ISPs? Whoa... you guys better do something about that.
Maybe you can give ISPs more power, that should fix it.
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cruel and unusual punishment disagrees with you
A guy can dream.
Special interest groups have a ton of clout in the USA. Not really sure what to do about it, aside from publicly publish who's getting money from where, but that doesn't do a whole lot either since people seem to not really care.
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nope. you need the government to reform the government and when they are all on the lobbying payroll, its not happening.
inb4 "overthrow them"
no
I thought you were American until now.
I'd be even more pissed off at crap like this if I were. 
@kewldude007 Regardless of what some members believe, my "SJW", "liberal", "commie", "leftist" ideals in no way turn to a violent insurrection to solve political issues. I have a history of 100% non-violence and for a good reason. I have never been able to bring myself down to that level, even if some people thought it would have been justified if I had used anything more than physical force to deal with violence.
I think it is my mother/family that ingrained this into me at a young age. I appreciate it, because the people around me at certain points of my life were more than willing to defend me if I chose to be violently idiotic.
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Is there a step after a company achieves a monopoly?
The ISP's are so fucked. Today they claim to support net neutrality.
Yesterday they wanted net neutrality laws repealed.
Last year they wrote and got Congress to pass the net neutrality laws that they are now claiming to be unfair to them.
you passed my test <3
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The playing field should be so well regulated/even/fair/smart, that if a company achieves a monopoly, the customers should be the ones that benefit from that monopoly.
Sadly this is not the case, so you have to adapt regulation to deal with outlying instances such as monopolies.
In a well regulated market, the ME2 companies would undoubtedly spring up; adapting the most successful business model. Anti-competition regulations would keep the bigger/established businesses from pushing out the smaller ones. If no such rules work... better rules, but only if the monopoly has a detrimental effect on the economy.
Make your government work... like real work.
Aw fuck, no Crunchyroll or porn packages? Life will truely suck if ISPs had their way.
I was going to write a complete rough draft to the FCC and send it as is but because I'm starting to find this serious and that I actually do have standards for writing, I'm probably going to revise this later tonight and submit it tomorrow or when it is at a state I find satisfactory. Regardless if the FCC may or may not read my particular comment that will get lost amist the thousand of other comments about this issue, I feel the need to voice about how the Restore Internet Freedom Act is a complete misnomer by name as I do not want to live a future where Net Neutraliity has been repealed.
Here is the shitty rough draft I made. It is what happens when you type without thinking how your paper looks. It is not complete, and some points require some research on my part for my statements to be credible or at least persuasive. I also do not care if you somehow steal this, transform it to something of your own, or just take it as is because at the end of the day, this is about preserving the unrestricted Internet we use.
My name is [insert name] and I am a college student. I use the internet for many things. Two things that are important to me are education and entertainment. For educational purposes, the internet allows me to tap into an encyclopedia of almost all of human knowledge for me and any other learners or students to benefit from in one way or another, whether it may be for personal growth, research, or just finding answers to questions we may have for a particular day. I'm sure when the Internet was developed, one of the goals it was to provide access to anyone who needs it. For entertainment purposes, the Internet has allowed unrestricted creativity to the masses for anyone to share to any audience. Works that normally would not see in the light of day like through television, book publications, news outlet, etc are all have an opportunity to be reached tut to those that may give it a chance. It is not a lie to say that almost all of my entertainment comes from the Internet-based services like YouTube, Netflix, Crunchyroll, than services provided by cable only because it has been sclerotic over time rather than adhering to change.
The Internet by and large is still the most significant innovation in recent human history and it would be a travesty to neuter its ongoing significant impact on human civilization. Everyone benefits the internet in one way or another and to allow it to be given controlled to any human entity, especially a corporation whose primary interest is to increase profits regardless of moral ethics. ISPs do not care about the consumer, only their hard-earned cash. The title, Restore Internet Freedom Act (RIFA) for short, is a complete misnomer and does the complete opposite of restoring freedom.
This isn't the first time we had a threat to the Internet. We had the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Protect IP Act (PIPA), and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), and all have meet with outcry due to their restrictive nature for the rest of the citizens.
Can confirm. I have the "option" of two isps at my house. Comcast which offers just about whatever speed you want. Then century link which offers up to 8Mbps down for stupid high price.
But there is an option there so its not a monopoly and that makes everything better.
We have two major ISPs in my area, and a small group of ISPs that rent lines from the major two.
About ten years ago, both of the major ISPs decided to set bandwidth caps within a few months of each other. Ten years have passed and most of the fiber line has been laid out... the bandwidth caps magically lifted... from both companies... as it once was.
I wonder.