Neat Net Neutrality News

[derspiess]

I've considered the idea of abandoning traditional TV content provision in favor of just internet.

Problem is I have a wife and kids who have no tolerance for fucking around with 16 different ways to get at what they want to watch.

Add "no willingness to learn" to that and you have my family.  You'd think it requires an MIT grad to switch from the Tivo to the Xbox or Playstation, the way they act.

"The TV's not working!!!!"   

[Grey Fox]

I would cut the cable but I like sports so I am shit out of luck.

[Siege]

I would cut the cable but I like sports so I am shit out of luck.

I'm pretty sure ESPN is available online.
But I don't know. I don't watch sports.

[Grey Fox]

I don't live in the USA

and while sports is available online, cost associated with it is larger than having cable sub.

[Norgy]

How's meth neutrality doing, by the way?

[Ed Anger]

How's meth neutrality doing, by the way?

Lost in Ohio to Heroin neutrality.

[Syt]

There's been some cases where meth labs have been uncovered over here. Almost every news article contains the phrase "Crystal meth - as known from the TV show Breaking Bad."

[crazy canuck]

I would cut the cable but I like sports so I am shit out of luck.

Yeah, for me the biggest reason for keeping our TV subscription is the sports.  The American online sports content isn't available in Canada.  If it was I would probably cut the TV subscription entirely. 

[grumbler]

The devil's advocate argument, is that unlike in the analogy on roads, it is the cable companies who've paid for/built most of the infrastructure.  But on the flip side, they're already charging you to access it, but they also want to control how you use that access.

The real counter-argument for the FCC's decision to increase bureaucracy is that the problems it solved didn't exist.  I've heard a lot of pretty persuasive argument from academics who study this issue that the FCC is, as is common in bureaucracies, cracking a walnut with a sledgehammer.

[Eddie Teach]

There's been some cases where meth labs have been uncovered over here. Almost every news article contains the phrase "Crystal meth - as known from the TV show Breaking Bad."

Do they show you the PSAs with people's skin falling off?

[Syt]

We're not there yet.

[Barrister]

I would cut the cable but I like sports so I am shit out of luck.

That's where I'm at.

[DontSayBanana]

TL;DR
What are the arguments in favor and against?

Freedom vs. Commies vs. Robber Barons

Ok.
So Net Neutrality is the free market solution or the monopolist/communist attempt to increase their power?

Both sides say their stand is free market at work. 

The anti- camp says that the market will drop the revenue hammer when interconnection fees become unreasonable.

The pro-net neutrality camp says that the revenue hammer couldn't be dropped on certain companies because they connect content providers and consumers to the Internet.

Net neutrality is a good thing, IMO- they're basically telling Comcast and Verizon, "if you're going to operate like monopolies, we're going to regulate you like monopolies."  To a lesser extent, they're throwing down the gauntlet on wireless companies, except it'll be trickier to regulate those- by statute, wireless companies are exempted from many of the things that give the FCC teeth to enforce net neutrality.

[Neil]

I would cut the cable but I like sports so I am shit out of luck.

That's where I'm at.

And I.  Also, there's a fair chance that my wife would be very angry.

[Siege]

There's been some cases where meth labs have been uncovered over here. Almost every news article contains the phrase "Crystal meth - as known from the TV show Breaking Bad."

Should I watch that show?