The internet is not a human right. You are not entitled to the internet.
You having affordable access to services like YouTube and Facebook is also not a human right.
It astounds me that we have so many people on the right, and people claiming to be libertarians that are defending net neutrality. In other words, defending a form of government coercion.
Things like this go a long way in exposing a lot of so called "libertarians". As long as stuff doesn't concern them, they're libertarians, but as soon as they might need to spend the extra buck, they run away to the caring arms of socialism.
Net neutrality is a form of government control, and last I checked libertarians were a group intelligent enough to know why government control is a bad idea.
It's silly that under net neutrality people who use a service - let's say cat videos on YouTube - can take bandwidth away from people not watching cat videos, and they don't have to pay for it.
The only model that makes sense is one where the people spending bandwidth watching cat videos shill out the money for said extra bandwidth.
Under net neutrality, George who is 75 year old and uses the internet to pay his bills once a month pays the same as Carl the Cryptogeek who is online 24/7.
I feel this sucks for George. It would make more sense for George to pay a smaller fee than Carl, since George uses less of the service.
Getting rid of net neutrality will enable the market to come up with new ideas to offer internet services to people. That's what everybody seems to be missing. Getting rid of the government and involving the market leads to better and more varied results. Come on, people.
Like for instance, YouTube can offer its old service to people for free, or for a small fee, but a better service for those willing to pay for it. Instead of being an archaic one size fits all solution, due to government interference.
In the end, it's a matter of principle, I will admit.
If a company builds an internet cable, you damn right that company should have every right to decide how said cable is being used, not the government.
Getting rid of net neutrality should be celebrated, it's a smart thing done by the US government, which doesn't happen often.
And everybody's shitting all over it.
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