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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I wasn't aware of that, but that basically sounds like a pseudo-Mafia protection racket. I imagine that would eventually lead to breaking anti-trust laws. At the very least it would be in the same spirit of bigger companies temporarily selling products at a loss to put smaller companies out of business, which is very illegal.
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Absolutely right. Unfortunately, Obama appointed the head lobbyist of the cable industry as the Chair of the FCC - an act that John Oliver famously likened to hiring a dingo to babysit your infant child.
Oliver did an excellent job of summarizing each of the critical points of net neutrality in a segment on Last Week Tonight, as well as contextualizing the circumstance of its political threat.
He also points out that the US pays more for cable and internet than almost anybody else on Earth, and yet, our download speed is crappier than lesser-expensive services in countries like
Estonia.