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[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0) Edited

It proves my point that businesses will do as they plase.

But we know it’s going to happen again. The best way not to be controlled is to be preemptive, not reactive. Enforcing net neutrality now means we don’t have to try to classify geoups of businesses as holding monopolies. Kind of like how banks and businesses raise gun sales ages without regard to rights. That fight is still coming. Might as well put a stop to it now.

[–] Butler_crosley 1 points (+1|-0)

Except Net Neutrality grew the monopolies instead of preventing them by not allowing startup companies to lay new lines if they wanted to. It was cost prohibitive for the small companies to expand because the big companies got the FCC under Obama to write in regulations that benefitted the biggest companies.

NN wasn't necessary when it was written because it wasn't a problem when it was written and now the big scary corporations have gotten bigger and are in position to do the very things NN was supposed to prevent because of the regulations that eliminated potential competition. Now that the regulations are relaxed these big companies are scared of competition so they are convincing everyone that they will start doing what NN controlled if it isn't brought back. I say make them compete, and let the small companies have a level playing field to start from, not one that the Googles, Comcasts, and AT&Ts have rigged under the auspices of protecting the consumer with NN regulations.

[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0) Edited

Except Net Neutrality grew the monopolies instead of preventing them by not allowing startup companies to lay new lines if they wanted to

What? Are you sure you understand what net neutrality is?

And even if you do:

big companies got the FCC under Obama to write in regulations that benefitted the biggest companies.

Even if this is true, it has nothing to do with states implementing their own versions to stop the problems you talk about since the FCC repealed all thsoe Obama regulations. You'd literally be against something that doesn't exist anymore.

[–] Butler_crosley 0 points (+0|-0)

I was referring to NN by the FCC since you did. The states have to be very careful in their regulations otherwise they run into Dormant Commerce Clause infringement. California seems to enjoy testing the limits of the Dormant Commerce Clause and they may have gone too far with this law. I read somewhere that the Trump administration was letting other states pass NN laws but was waiting for California to pass theirs because it was going to be the strictest and most likely to infringe on that clause.

I'm all in favor of states passing their own NN style laws as long as they don't affect states that don't pass them. I also think it's misguided because not letting the market correct itself but then again most politicians think they know better than their constituents do. But again as long as another state's NN regulations aren't dictating my state's internet rules, I'll be fine.