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Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality Is Already Gone
Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is "A Load of Bollocks". Anyone here been shaken down by their Internet Service Provider? "The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality 'a load of bollocks' and claiming he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others... If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane.'"
and the people control nothing.... Hell, ask the average Joe Sixpack if they'd like to have their ....expense of a bunch of pasty faced nerds not being able to access Slashdot at the same speed, I'm sure they'll be quite happy about it
What you are really saying is that the you do not have control over the vast majority of people want. In America, corporations cater to what people want, or they die and die quickly. Consumers are fickle and they want what they want. So, if Americans want an internet, which exists so that people can watch back episodes of American Idol and follow all of the winners, that is the internet that ISPs are going to bend over backwards to get. What you are asking for, in net neutrality, is for ISPs to ignore mountains of market research, essentially polling as to what people want, in favor of an internet that does what you want it to do, and you want the government to impose that. That's not net neutrality, that is net tyranny. Just because they tyranny works for you, doesn't make it not a tyranny.
This is my sig.
Yep, they will really miss the 3 customers that this runs off.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Why do "net neutrality" advocates ridicule politicians for comparing the Internet to a âoeseries of tubes,â and then trust them to regulate it?
The One Minute Case Against Net Neutrality