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Originally Posted by Robbie
My question would be though...you and a few others have said you don't have any competition in the way of ISP's to choose from.
I know for a fact that there were tons of them just a few years ago. Even in the small town I lived in in South Carolina ten years ago I had over a dozen choices. (And yes, I know that there is a small percentage of people who live in the mountains and other remote places who have no choice but slow satellite service...but I'm only talking about people who live in civilization lol)
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In some cases getting internet is difficult and there are few choices.
In my case, I surely could go and use a different company. I could choose from any of them; I live in the suburbs. However, I would be going from free Internet to paying $100 (or whatever it costs for Internet). So now that net neutrality is dead, my upstream ISP AT&T can block Skype. Skype is a requirement for my job, so it would cost me $1200 a year. However,
It's really easy to say "Well, move to a different Internet provider". That's a great idea, but I can move to another company and run into other problems - Perhaps Comcast has a policy that doesn't allow Netflix and Youtube because it uses too much bandwidth. Or perhaps another Internet provider won't allow me to work with the payment processor I use.
In other cases they do not have choices for Internet providers. I live in Lincoln, California, and while most of us live in the suburbs just outside of town is farm country. They don't have Internet or even cable television. All they have is "satellite Internet".
This isn't a political issue Robbie. Almost everyone is against this. Why would anyone remove protections for consumers while destroying any attempts at innovation? This is just a bad idea from the start.