In the US there is no ISP market to set prices there are just local monopolies. As for bandwidth always being limited that won’t be true and should not be true but allowing premium games and monopoly means we will continue to pay for what was long ago paid off. There is still an ocean of un lit or dark fiber in the US. Where is the bandwidth constraint there? These are private entities that are taxing people. Think about the history of the US internet with highest rates for lowest bandwidths and quality of service, that improved under neutrality rules even as they claim investment went down by 5%. And investment is such utter nonsense under monopoly these should entities run at cost beyond programmed imprivements because beyond the rate payer the ‘investor’ contributes nothing under monopoly.
Take the incredibly foolish and dishonest comment by Mark Cuban: neutrality means the government runs the net. Government of we the people is running the net as opposed to we the wealthy we the corporations through consolidated sponsored employer driven media corporations?
In the US we already have the electoral college, gerrymandering a disfuctional party system, ALEC, untennable sponsored bribe based media and bribe based government where it takes sponsor class money to run as non puppets aren’t allowed as sponsors deny them media access through their consolidated captured media and now we will have per new employer sponsor rules a toll road sponsor/employer based internet where our money is used against us to support paid discrimination censorship against us like when Comcast and crew used our money at the behest of their sponsor masters to abrige our actual speech rights (fine print says local sponsor ISP monopoly can censor anyone they want for any reason for any duration as long as they announce ahead of time they are execising their new captured state power) and to charge us more to accelerate such actions.
In the US sponsored government wanted to hide its spying on its own people behind sponsored consolidated for profit media companies (ISPs) like Comcast so it stripped away privacy protections but hid behind Comcast saying greedy Comcast which used our money against us to censor our speech rights with anti neutrality actually wanted it. For context in the very beginning neutrality was anti monopoly as gov didn’t want hardware vendor lock in through intentionally incompatible hardware in the network buildout. It was/is an anti enclosure principal. If a government of the people didn’t want lock in why would the actual people.
So hiding behind their sponsor platforms sponsors pushed for more censorship and now in an election the captured Trump admin will issue national security gag letters to Comcast and crew to throttle opponent information and it will be able to hide behind the claim that sponsored media comcast entity wanted this for profit purposes- money first…
people last.
In sponsored consolidated media the customers are are products or property- they pay a subscription but are force fed propanda and sponsor ads- same thing right down to the programming/content all biased to reinforce sponsor power. The real customer is the sponsor ad pusher owner. The point of sponsorship is not selling products but censorship, spin and the monied class’s drowning out of speech. The point of sponsorship is capture of government by wealth and money it means corporate wage slaver employer capture of speech. In a election money spent to preselect sponsor puppet candidates goes right back to the sponsors to reinforce their censorship filter.
Think about the employer class in the country, they want people to work more and more for lower and lower wages while charging more and more for the products while shifting the tax burden on to people who work. And where automation threatens work they want to reward the people who put the automation in place and ultimately paid for every thing reward them with starving in the street or
being locked up in for profit work camp prisons under formal resurgent slavery.
If you don’t want to be property we cannot have the conflict of interest of sponsored media or sponsored speech platforms. Think co-opted speech lie based misrepresentation speech- right down to certain kinds of puffing. This stuff goes way beyond notions like treason. To me the penalty for sponsorship especially sponsored politicians should be the death penalty coupled with total asset forefeiture. Accepting money to F the public over especially under disgusting self righteous sponsorship should have the stiffest type of disuasive consequence- even as I hate the idea of state having such power.
Note the contemp of that f-er Ajit Pai, this defacto abridgement of 330 million people’s speech rights upon which their very lives literally and truely depend is pitched as helping the poor just like they claimed the 07 collapse under Bush was the poor’s fault because they weren’t working hard enough… to pay home loans and not yet another useless on schedual petrol collapse to aid the hollowing out. A genuine Robespierre and we know what happens with these types of people. But also apparently a true idiot that thinks he’s being a clever Machiavellian when he’s just transparent.
The only analysis that really counts is the censorship analysis because in losing your voice you lose your rights and become peoperty, death is a better plight.
You wanted an analogy. All roads are toll roads that allow a few corporate welfare barons to tax you and hand your money and fruits of your toil over to a few useless entitled non contributing silver spooners. On the way home from a wage slave job, stuck on roads that will never be fixed because not fixing it enables them to charge some people more for paid proritization fast tracks such that you are suffering in traffic so they can gouge other people better able to pay and so those people can have the privilge of making you wait to help reinforce inequity- you have to wait so your betters, more important more valuable people can have luxury. Part of that scheme of addressing the hallucinatory tragedy of the commons is having red lights in the middle of the freeway to further slow your commute to help further drive up rates and push private propaganda. Think unblockable modal ads on your cell interrupting calls at start middle and end- sponsored data nonsense, and useless lying caps ( they can price at based on what things actually cost vice you always paying more that you use with caps- your actual rate is bandwith times rate period seconds- they manage the load and are never to hold custimer blocks ransom- they shouldn’t even have that data as its not their business- public wants dumb pipes not snoopers, spies and discriminating censoring, gouging throttlers rights undermining public enemies. And block an ad or be suspected of it and you get locked out permanently. You get banned from the roads. These firms will start to try to charge premiums for breaking the net.
Don’t think this can happen (?)- Sony was trying to make it a felony to bypass the ads at the front of a bluray disk. And doing this at a time when Tivo was prevalent. And thinking its blue ray boxes would phone home over attempts to do this or bypass its resolution toll road and it thought it could degrade resolution to punish people with flags etc. Even as part if RIAA was pushing the preemptive destruction of people’s equipment and data. Remember the root kit episodes(?) and the bouts of impersonating authorities. MS hired some of the same people that drove this at Sony thinking they could sneak a camera console into the living room to spy on people and that it couldn’t be blocked from phoning home, wanted to track eyes to elements of ads and report on people in their living rooms.
If you want the counter point, yes private firms built out the net but they also thougth during the dot com bubble that it would be cable part two with consolidated top down one way modal ad drive media. They fully expected to hugely profit from first scaming with zero rate sponsored data plan bs. Thought they would then introduce subscriptions on top of the ads just like the cable scam prior did with broadcast TV formerly which was formerly a fairness doctrine (anti sponsor conflict of interest rules) platform. Thet thought it would be full speech enclosure and censorship as in AOL attempting to charge people an hourly rate to access public content on their own hard drives. Version today is we see all these cookie pop ups now indicating cloud firms want to reverse the SAFE approach on us and use our storage free of charge as another squeeze, and note that space will be needed for systems like SAFE.
So what will all of this be used for? Well, petrol in particular hasn’t been economcally viable for 70 years and its just been a means of trying to take us in a post capital age of automation back to the plantation and feudal servitude to preserve the power and prestiege of former capitalists so when they commit their next slew of terror acts to shore up the scam of petrol they will use this censorship to cover it.
The world has one public enemy industry right now and that is the petrol fuel/energy industry. The US has two public enemy industries petrol and telecom-cable-sponsored media.
They will also censor the three things the world really needs:
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End of petrarchy petrol scam- can’t go back to Monarchy reinforced by data base- human extinction would be preferable.
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End of conflation of speech with censorship (money.) Money is not speech, in the context of speech and political speech which is the core of speech it is a conflict of interest. So the end if sponsored lie based media, end of the censorship industry.
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Need a high indexed guaranteed unconditional annual income for everyone cradle to grave. This is part of stripping away the useless coercive residual power of long dead but straddled with retributive debt capital and the long defunct employeer class.
