Opponents of net neutrality want to turn the internet into cable TV, where a handful of mega-corporations control content. By their design, outsiders with different voices and innovative ideas will face impossible entrance barriers, thus limiting competition and reducing consumer choice. This will turn the internet into one more monopolized communication medium, owned by the same concentrated powers which have purchased government. Over the past 30 years we have seen this Orwellian nightmare where supposed proponents of the free market have turned sector after sector (from energy to health care) into anti-competitive cesspools of corruption. In each sector profits now operate inversely to efficiency, innovation, and competitive price models. The market winners divert profits to Washington (rather than innovation) for the purpose of blocking legislation that would create an even playing field, thereby maximizing competition. Over a decade ago, when the electric car movement popped up in California, it was crushed by government before it could successfully compete for consumer dollars.
The role of Government is now to make it impossible for foreign and generic drug makers to compete with those who possess the largest market share. In exchange for blocking competition-friendly regulation, elections are funded, junkets are sponsored, and wallets are stuffed. The market winners not only divert money to their Washington puppets, but to a massive ideological bull horn which keeps voters in a hermetically sealed bubble (where anything that concentrates money and power is called 'freedom'). One day the OP is going to realize that his party has literally become a vast monopoly protectorate. I say Free The Pipes, so the little guys can crawl over the bones of the living and the dead to give me maximum content choice. Last thing I want is to go into a public library and do search for 'global warming" which leads to content sponsored by Halliburton and Exxon. (Wow, just wow)
The role of Government is now to make it impossible for foreign and generic drug makers to compete with those who possess the largest market share. In exchange for blocking competition-friendly regulation, elections are funded, junkets are sponsored, and wallets are stuffed. The market winners not only divert money to their Washington puppets, but to a massive ideological bull horn which keeps voters in a hermetically sealed bubble (where anything that concentrates money and power is called 'freedom'). One day the OP is going to realize that his party has literally become a vast monopoly protectorate. I say Free The Pipes, so the little guys can crawl over the bones of the living and the dead to give me maximum content choice. Last thing I want is to go into a public library and do search for 'global warming" which leads to content sponsored by Halliburton and Exxon. (Wow, just wow)
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