Exactly what were they doing before this regulation? It clearly does a lot more than has been explained. It’s 400 pages. Did your internet improve after it? Does it cost less now?
If you started smoking today you won’t get lung cancer in 2 years. You need to think how things play out long term.
It’s not always about consumers paying more although that’s a possibility. I am more concerned about how it will affect the internet companies that are small or yet to be formed. If Facebook and google can pay to accelerate their traffic how does it affect the little guys? SV owes its economy to the vibrant startup ecosystem and killing net neutrality has a very bad effect on it.
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PS 400 pages is nothing. Did you check how many pages you have when you buy a house? Are we supposed to believe Comcast legal department is so burdened by 400 pages of legal documents? Seriously?
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He makes points about it. How can you have transportation dependent on the internet when it gets the same priority that Netflix does? Lag in transportation or healcare could kill people. No one is going to die of their Netflix takes a few minutes to start.
The internet wasn’t created in 2015. It had already been around 20+ years with none of the problems people are predicting. Facebook and Google became giants before net neutrality existed. That proves you wrong. If it was an issue, then AOL would have won by slowing down or blocking everything that wasn’t AOL content.
Just look at the evolution in wireless from paying for peak minutes to now. It’s completely changed multiple times.
You said it was simple and used one sentence to summarize. Clearly it’s way more complex than that. Customers fund their growing legal department via higher bills. We also fund more regulators to enforce it via taxes. Are we better off for the money spent?
Just tell me this. When google and Facebook load 10x faster than all other websites is it good or bad for SV startups?
Cuban’s argument can be turned on it’s head too. Which is more likely to pay ISP to accelerate traffic: your local hospital or Pornhub?
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Any simple ideas needed to be wrapped up in legalise. Principle is simple but actual doc is of course complicated. So you expect your Comcast bill to go down next month?
Has that ever happened? We have 20+ years of history. Find us the example where it happened.
Netflix is over 50% of evening bandwidth in the US. That shouldn’t be possible without net neutrality. Internet providers should be limiting Netflix to save money. Imagine how much less infrastructure they’d have to build to increase bandwidth if they limited Netflix. Yet it didn’t happen.
You might as well be paranoid big foot will break into your home and kill you.
You are giving ISP a power that you don’t think it will use to maximize profit? Ok.
Google and Facebook have video too, remember? At the minimum we can rest assured there won’t be another video startup like YouTube.
What did the 2/3 respond with? Facebook, Apple and Amazon???
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I saw one where more people could name all the members of the Simpsons family than the VP. Those are some priorities.
Comcast is not reliable at all. I had their Blast package (supposedly up to 200 Mbps) and their speed was not up to par with occasional down time. Had zero problems with Sonic when I had it.
Well, one idiot asking another idiot, the dumb and stupid kid what’s his name? Perry? Couldn’t name the third branch in government during the debates to become the GOP front runner. Now he is leading what department? Science? EPA? NASA? 
Right, and in 2014 they could have blocked all stock broker sites excluding whoever paid the highest ransom to be the only site not blocked. Do you remember when we could only use E*TRADE if we had Comcast and AT&T customers could only use Schwab?
Wiener is a busy guy…
Yes, opinion piece…