Is the financial industry an apt analogy? Wall Street "holds" other peoples assets and hypothecates and re-hypothecates those assets, bleeds their depositors and provide (generally) poor ROI to the depositor. Hail to the people that add no value! You too Priceline. LOL
Teach them to connect reality with a business objective. The "field of dreams" theory of business planning is successful 1 in 1,000,000 times. Ergo, hitch your wagon to a horse that can pull a wagon. Said another way, ensure that the product or service which you spend your next 20-hours per day, 7 days per week, actually is something that the market demands.
These trends come and go, like the tides. Remember that I said this: the IBM bean counters will publish a study in a couple of years that shows that it is massively expensive to maintain on-premise work sites for knowledge workers.... and they will kick everyone out, again. LOL Lemmings
2) That's patently false, there are many small and independent ISP's and just about anyone can plop down an DSL Access Module (DSLAM) on the local infrastructure and wammo, you're an ISP. You stupid, dude.
3) Consumers will drive demand... sorry, that's how it is. And ISP's have never and probably will never ever try to negotiate 1000's upon 1000's of subscriber revenue sharing agreements with ever stupid "ten white guys in hoodies" startup. From a feasibility standpoint, it's impossible to implement and manage.
4) I wasn't referring to ISP-to-ISP peering agreements, numb skull. I was referring to ISP taxing large service providers (e.g. Fakebook or Netflix or Amazon) to carry that traffic without nerfing it.
Someone whom has read and UNDERSTANDS the Net Neutrality legislation AND code of regulation, please comment. If you have only stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, please restrain yourself :-)
Having been a user of the Internet prior to the birth of the HTTP standard, I find these arguments spurious, straw men, and red herrings. But, I am open (probably more open, than my progressive peers) to being better informed. So please help... and don't flame. Advance ideas.
"Net neutrality is fundamental to free speech. Without net neutrality, big companies could censor your voice and make it harder to speak up online. Net neutrality has been called the “First Amendment of the Internet.”"
Help me to understand how freedom of speech was attenuated, prior to Net Neutral, or how was it ACTUALLY threatened? Why couldn't I have published my own blog or editorial site, now or in the future?
"Net neutrality is fundamental to competition. Without net neutrality, big Internet service providers can choose which services and content load quickly, and which move at a glacial pace. That means the big guys can afford to buy their way in, while the little guys are muscled out."
Why wouldn't other Internet services step into the void, to fulfill a demand? Perfect example: As in China, the Great Firewall has caused a boom in VPN / tunneling technology, to fulfill a consumer demand for government-free access to information.
"Net neutrality is fundamental to innovation. Without net neutrality, creators and entrepreneurs could struggle to reach new users. Investment in new ideas would dry up, and the Internet would start to look more and more like cable TV: so many channels, but with nothing on."
Any honest person would refute the assertion that "investment in innovation would dry up." There will always be wild-cat investors seeking huge multiple returns and willing to dump stupid cash on a bunch of white dudes in hoodies.
However, I would stipulate that large corps like Fakebook would be better able to absord the risk of innovation, ergo innovations may be captive to large companies... and that would stink for eager entrepreneurs.
I do, however, think that revenue-sharing concepts that include the transmission companies, modeled after the cable monopolies of olde (cable cutting is killing that model) could be a suitable alternative to todays two-tier model (transmission vs. content).
"Net neutrality is fundamental to user choice. Without net neutrality, ISPs could decide you’ve watched too many cat videos in one day, and throttle your Internet speeds — leaving you behind on the latest Maru memes."
This is true, I have no argument for this... ala AT&T "unlimited bandwidth" (small print) until you get to 20GB and then we will throttle your device until it is essentially useless, as a smart device :-( (BTW, kiss my @$$ AT&T for that).