Not for nothing but the number of times it has been stated by the courts that the things they are ruling on is a congressional matter keeps going up. Any time you want to start doing your job Congress...

I absolutely believe in net neutrality but thew courts have made it clear that laws need to be passed. Blame the right people if you want to blame someone.

RedEye9 wrote on Aug 6, 2024, 10:25:
The Dunning-Kruger Effect says hi.

The irony of invoking the Dunning-Kruger Effect is that you become the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

"Competition."

Where?

It's like with meat production. Why did prices go up? Because there are so few companies involved and the barriers to entry prevent any new companies. When you have 4 or so companies dominating an industry, they stop competing. If one raises prices, the others don't stay where they are or reduce to try to take share, they instead also raise their prices to take profit.

When it comes to the internet, there are so few companies involved. And given how literally everything has made a strong shift in the past 4 years to turn the internet from a place of information to a place of commerce that they get a piece of, why would you trust any company that has an ironclad grip on something that no one can challenge?

The Dunning-Kruger Effect says hi.

Ozmodan wrote on Aug 6, 2024, 09:02:
The Net Neutraility nonsense is just that nonsense. Competition has made it a nonissue.

Precisely! NN was always a solution in search of a problem. Its support has ever come from the n00b cheering section convinced that the evil companies are throttling them, and, gee, if NN is made a thing I will always get the max theoretical speeds my ISP advertises, 24/7/365, and capping server download speeds will cease and disappear into the ether...;) So said by people with no understanding of how the Internet works. I'm delighted to see that at long last logic and brains win this argument. NN would have ruined the Internet for consumers and turned it into a litigation lawyer's paradise.

The Net Neutraility nonsense is just that nonsense. Competition has made it a nonissue.

The panel of appeals court judges are signaling with their hand out to those with the money (ISPs) that they might have a stronger case than the FCC, if the extended had is sufficiently greased.
And consumers get screwed yet again.