12-01-2017, 08:04 PM
(12-01-2017, 03:10 PM)Benton Wrote: But it's not just a national issue. Not all companies are as big as HBO and Comcast.
Fair enough...But Netflix and Youtube alone are over half of internet traffic. Add in other big names like HBO, Hulu, etc... and you are probably north of 70%. So most of the other stuff simply isn't worth trying to gouge, while collectively still big enough as a group to matter - cable is struggling to much to squeeze and kill the little guys. And price gouging really isn't NN, anyway - that potential exists in every industry, and generally only happens when there's a lack of competition or collusion.
People have been talking about this for 15 years since a professor imagined the concern and coined the term. It really hasn't been a problem. Maybe more regulation will be necessary in the future, but why pile on a bunch of regulations that might be completely unnecessary? It's almost as if the internet was broken before the brief NN period, and now the repeal has broken the internet again.
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