Re: Net Neutrality

[steelville <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The free market should decide the price. I would love to see what happens if Comcast started to charge Google for bandwidth priority for it's customers. I could see the preverbal middle finger given to Comcast. While I agree that making people pay extra priority packets, I don't think the content delivery networks will let that happen very long. --Mike Wills
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Well, I'm strictly a free market man, regulation kills the golden goose, 
but I forgot to post the article that started this, but it looked like 
while a few (of the biggest) broadband providers and content providers 
were meeting with the FCC to come to an agreement of sorts about what 
kind of legislation to propose toward Net Neutrality, Google and Verizon 
were having their own side bar talks and heading toward their own agreed 
approach. And there were suggestions that they were heading toward an 
arrangement where Google would indeed pay for favored treatment.

Google denied it, and Verizon said something in diplomatic language but 
there is a lot they did not say, and us plebes are in the dark, so that 
smells..

FCC Slams Door On Further Private Net Neutrality Talks With Verizon and 
Google - DailyFinance 
<http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/fcc-slams-door-on-further-private-net-neutrality-talks-with-veri/19583724/>

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/fcc-slams-door-on-further-private-net-neutrality-talks-with-veri/19583724/

But the specter of two super-control-freak administrations (this one and 
the last) that thought nothing of taking over insurance, banking, and 
auto companies and health care and favoring companies A, B, and C to 
hell with free market, this is giving me great pause. Like I'm wondering 
whether to apply "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"...

Like, what could we be missing in the picture here?

--Alan